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Writing about a Meal
You don't need to be a food critic to describe your meal accurately! A series of activities introduce learners to vivid adjectives when writing about the taste, smell, and feel of food. After working with word choice, parts of a...
Brigham Young University
Out of the Dust: Cubing Strategy
Imagine using a six-sided cube to encourage readers to analyze a topic in greater depth. Create a cube, label each of the six sides with one of Bloom's comprehension levels, and you're ready to launch a discussion of a text....
Curated OER
Descriptive Writing: Color Description Worksheet
In this language arts activity, students generate words that describe each of the 5 colors listed. Students write adjectives to tell what the color looks, feels, tastes, smells and sounds like.
K12 Reader
Animal Adjectives
How would you describe someone who was acting like a dog or a chicken? Teach your class the adjectives that pair with 20 different animals. They'll be able to describe anything canine or crocodilian, and everything in between.
K12 Reader
Identifying Adjectives
Support your bright young grammarians with identifying adjectives using these simple, yet effective skills practice worksheets. Presenting with a series of 18 sentences children are asked to first circle the...
K12 Reader
Adjective Synonyms
Practice identifying adjectives and using synonyms with one exercise! Learners find the adjective in each sentence and replace it with a synonym from the word bank when they rewrite the sentence.
California Education Partners
My Five Senses by Aliki
An assessment designed to examine scholars' reading comprehension skills takes place over three days. Starting with a read-aloud of My Five Senses by Aliki, learners then take notes and discuss their most memorable moments with...
Curated OER
Action and Linking Verbs
In this recognizing action verbs and linking verbs in sentences worksheet, students read statements, identify the verbs, and label them either action or linking verbs. Students write 15 answers.
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Vocabulary Questions: Synonyms and Antonyms
In this synonyms and antonyms activity, students explore three synonyms and one antonym for thirty two words using the dictionary. Students answer seventeen short answer questions about the words they found.
Curated OER
Similes
Similes are a great way to get your writers thinking about descriptive details. They read a brief explanation which covers clichés and the general wording of a simile. Then, learners try a few on their own. First, they complete nine...
Curated OER
Creating an Interesting Setting
In this setting worksheet, students fill out a chart for seeing, feeling, smelling, tasting, and hearing in a setting. Students complete 20 boxes total in the chart.
Curated OER
Adjectives - Describing Words
For this adjectives worksheet, students review the definition and examples of adjectives. Students study the 4 pictures and then describe them with adjectives using their 5 senses.
Curated OER
The Senses
In this senses worksheet, students use the terms listed on the eye to label the figure and describe how light entering the eye becomes an image seen. Then they name the three main sections of the ear and explain what the cochlea does.
Curated OER
It Makes Sense
In this writing a poem worksheet, students choose a human emotion and write a poem following the directions to name its color, describe what it tastes like, what it smells like, what it looks like, what it sounds like, and what it feels...
Curated OER
A Rat's Life
Here is a two-page worksheet on rats and mice. Learners answer nine true/false questions about rats and mice, then compose answers to seven short-answer questions about these two rodents. Finally, they must compose a fictional story...
Curated OER
The Verb
How are linking verbs and action verbs different? First, study the definitions and examples of each (at the top of the first page). Then, assess the comprehension skills of your class by having them complete the 20-question practice...
K12 Reader
It’s Elemental
This comprehension worksheet provides readers with an article about basic matter and then asks them to use this information to respond to a series of comprehension questions.
Curated OER
Grammar Test
In this adjectives worksheet, students choose the correct adjectives that compare, describe, tell how many, and fill in adjectives to sentences. Students complete 15 problems total.
Curated OER
Clever Cooking Book Review Directions
In this literature and literacy worksheet, students select a recipe from a cookbook to review. They investigate the type of food it entails, the ingredients and tools need to make the food, and the safety concerns. They cook the recipe...
K12 Reader
Adjective Antonyms
Easy or hard? Fast or slow? Invite your class members to practice with antonyms. They identify each adjective and then use provided antonyms to rewrite the sentences.
Curated OER
Shadowmancer by G. P. Taylor
In this review of the book, Shadowmancer, by G. P. Taylor worksheet, 6th graders answer questions divided into the sections Before you Begin, What to Do as you Read, Chapters one through twenty-five, and After Reading. Students write 108...
Curated OER
Word Hunt
In this word hunt worksheet, students supply as many words as possible to name things that are described. In this short answer worksheet, students write nouns for thirty descriptions.
Curated OER
Word Hunt
In this word hunt worksheet, students make lists of things that . . . are described in phrases. Students name thirty groups of things.
Curated OER
Put Yourself in the Picture Photo Analysis
In this primary source analysis worksheet, students select historical photographs and then respond to 25 analysis questions that address the senses regarding the photograph they select.