Jennifer Greengart

May 18, 2005

Telecommunications Through the Internet

Elective #1: Worksheets for Instruction

Grade: 6

Subject: English Grammar

Topic: Adjectives

Here are a list of links to sites that would be useful for a teacher teaching adjectives to sixth grade students:

Lesson Plans and In-Class Activities

v http://www.nancymatson.com/adjlp.htm - cute activity for introducing review of adjectives at the beginning of the year

v A to Z Teacher Stuff – fun in class activity using food as a way to promote understanding of adjectives. http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/pages/467.shtml

v Read, Write, Think – GREAT in class writing activity. Thematic instruction brings grammar and literary analysis together in this activity. Students become the character and analyze their traits using proper adjectives. http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=175

Worksheets and Dittos

v EdHelper– this sight has a number of already made worksheets, as well as formats for creating your own worksheets. Try the following links for a worksheet on filling in sentences with adjectives:

http://www.edhelper.com/language/Adjectives.htm

v English-Zone – worksheet reviewing the differences between adjectives and adverbs http://www.english-zone.com/teach/adjadv.html

v Link regarding using nouns as adjectives: http://www.rhlschool.com/eng8n1.htm

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Quizzes

v http://webster.comnet.edu/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/adjectives_quiz.htm - good quiz for pre assessing knowledge of adjectives

v http://english-language.webpark.pl/country_adjectives.html -quiz that assesses knowledge of Proper Adjectives. Students have to write the proper, “Proper” adjective by a list of countries

Online Activities

These are a few fun, interactive, online sites that students and teachers may go to and learn more about adjectives:

v School-House Rock – song teaching about adjectives

http://www.school-house-rock.com/Adj.html

v Know Your Parts of Speech – has links to quizzes and information about adjectives. Online search for any adjective to find out its origin and definition!

http://www.grammarstation.com/KnowyourAdjectives.html