ELA6

Adjectives

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DEFINTION:

A word or phrase that decribes or changes (modifies) a person, place or thing.

HOW IT WORKS:
In the sentence: “The small, green, noisy car made a left turn. 'Small,' 'green' and 'noisy' are adjectives becasue they describe the car.

HOW IT'S USED IN EVERYDAY LIFE:
Adjectives are used every day when describing a person, place or thing. Adjectives provide more detail or modify about a noun.

Links: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar/parts-of-speech-the-modifier/introduction-to-adjectives-and-articles/v/intro-to-adjectives-v1

Practice: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar/parts-of-speech-the-modifier/introduction-to-adjectives-and-articles/e/meet-the-adjective

Lyrics

Ladies and Gentlemen step right up, step right up
It is time for the part of the show that describes
Now that you have seen the noun and the wonderful pronoun
Introducing the adjective!

Adjectives (9x)

Adjectives describe nouns and pronouns (4x)

I got a fly red car

And I’m a superstar

An adjectives tells what kind of star and kind of car it is

The car is fly and it's red

Those are the adjectives

Get it in your head

The star is super

Super’s the adjective

And I got a crazy tight flow

What’s the adjective?

Crazy! Tight!

If you said that you got it right

Cause it describes my flow

Here we here we go

Adjectives tells which, one, what kind and whose it is. (3x)

Describes it (3x)

Adjectives (9x)

Adjectives describes nouns and pronouns (4x)

Standards

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1.A — Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.6 — Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using adjectives and adverbs to describe (e.g., When other kids are happy that makes me happy).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.1.F — Use frequently occurring adjectives.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.5.D — Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs differing in manner (e.g., look, peek, glance, stare, glare, scowl) and adjectives differing in intensity (e.g., large, gigantic) by defining or choosing them or by acting out the meanings.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.5.B — Distinguish shades of meaning among closely related verbs (e.g., toss, throw, hurl) and closely related adjectives (e.g., thin, slender, skinny, scrawny).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.1.E — Use adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.7.2.A — Use a comma to separate coordinate adjectives (e.g., It was a fascinating, enjoyable movie but not He wore an old[,] green shirt).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1.G — Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.1.D — Order adjectives within sentences according to conventional patterns (e.g., a small red bag rather than a red small bag).