Adjective Activities–{No Prep/Low Prep/Freebie}

Hey Ya’ll!

I hope you are getting back into the swing of things, I’m enjoying my extra day off due to MLK Jr. Day! 

I wanted to offer up some quick and easy adjective activities that worked in my classroom and took little to no prep!

I think adjectives are one of the funnest things to teach, so simple and easy 🙂

Introduction to Adjectives Interaction:

To introduce adjectives, I drew a pig on the board {please excuse my drawing skills}. I gave each student a mini-post-it. I told them they were only allowed to write ONE word that reminds them of this or any pig. They brought their stickies up and placed them on the bottom of my board. After all this, I told them we are working on adjectives, something that describes a noun. I wrote on the board “A _____ pig.” I told my students if their word can fit in the blank and make sense, it is an adjective. I took the stickies off one by one and we voted “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” if the words were adjectives. If it was, I wrote it around the pig. Without even knowing it, the students were writing adjectives at the beginning of the lesson! We only had a few that weren’t adjectives. So easy. No prep.

Adjective Hunt:

You can have a cute print out of an Adjective Hunt or use a small piece of paper {I used index cards}.  During our “Read to Self” time, I had my kids search extra hard for adjectives that they may have found in their book. After about 5-10 minutes, we stopped and shared out. This was a quick way to clarify any misunderstandings about what an adjective is.

Spin & Graph {with a twist}:

This was quite a hit with my kiddos! I created a spinners pack for different parts of speech {including adjectives as seen here}. Instead of the students shading in the graph, I had them come up with ways to use the adjective. For example, if they spun “blue” they had to write in the blue graph “blue box”. You can see in the picture below what I mean…

{I may just do this with all my parts of speech ;)}

Sticker Adjectives:

For this low prep activity, I stuck an animal sticker on a piece of paper. The students had 5 minutes to write as many descriptions about the animal on the paper. After, we shared out and learned some great adjectives {we also got to correct those students who weren’t writing all adjectives}.

Cut & Pastes:

I also LOVE to use cut & pastes. Once we learn a few more parts of speech, I pull these out and we cut and paste! They can be used as a review or a grade! Click the pictures below for a free copy. 

The two items above are from my Grammar Sort Bundle, this has at least 6 more cut & paste grammar activities. Click the picture to check it out in my TpT store!

Have a blessed week!

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education”-MLK, Jr.