Handout
Nosapo

Writing about a Meal

For Students 4th - 12th Standards
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...
Lesson Plan
Brigham Young University

Out of the Dust: Cubing Strategy

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
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....
Worksheet
Curated OER

Descriptive Writing: Color Description Worksheet

For Students 2nd - 3rd
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.
Worksheet
K12 Reader

Animal Adjectives

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
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.
Worksheet
K12 Reader

Identifying Adjectives

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
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...
Worksheet
K12 Reader

Adjective Synonyms

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
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.
Assessment
California Education Partners

My Five Senses by Aliki

For Students 1st Standards
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...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Action and Linking Verbs

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
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.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Vocabulary Questions: Synonyms and Antonyms

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Curated OER

Similes

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
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...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Creating an Interesting Setting

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Adjectives - Describing Words

For Students 2nd - 3rd
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.
Worksheet
Curated OER

The Senses

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
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.
Worksheet
Curated OER

It Makes Sense

For Students 4th - 6th
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...
Worksheet
Curated OER

A Rat's Life

For Students 3rd - 5th
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...
Worksheet
Curated OER

The Verb

For Students 6th - 8th
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...
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K12 Reader

It’s Elemental

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
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.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Grammar Test

For Students 2nd - 5th
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.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Clever Cooking Book Review Directions

For Students 4th - 6th
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...
Worksheet
K12 Reader

Adjective Antonyms

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
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.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Shadowmancer by G. P. Taylor

For Students 6th
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...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Word Hunt

For Students 3rd - 6th
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.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Word Hunt

For Students 4th - 6th
In this word hunt worksheet, students make lists of things that . . . are described in phrases. Students name thirty groups of things.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Put Yourself in the Picture Photo Analysis

For Students 7th - 11th
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.