Steps to Identify Adjectives in a Picture: Kindergarten ELA Lesson

🎯 Lesson Objectives

• 💡 Students will define "adjective" as a describing word.
• 👂 Students will identify adjectives when listening to sentences.
• 🖼️ Students will describe objects in a picture using at least two adjectives.

🎒 Materials Needed

• 🏞️ A large, colorful picture with many identifiable objects (e.g., a busy park, a farm scene).
• 📝 Index cards or small whiteboards for each student.
• 🖍️ Markers, crayons, or pencils.
• ⭐ Optional: "Adjective Star" printable or cut-outs.

⏰ Warm-up (5 mins)

• 🗣️ Play "Simon Says" using descriptive words (e.g., "Simon says touch your red shirt," "Simon says wiggle your tiny fingers").
• ❓ Ask students what kind of words "red" and "tiny" are – words that describe!

📚 Main Instruction: Adjective Adventure!

• Introducion to Adjectives (10 mins):
• 🗣️ Explain that adjectives are "describing words." They tell us more about nouns (people, places, things).
• 🍎 Give simple examples: "a red apple," "a big dog," "a happy child."
• 🖐️ Have students share one word that describes themselves.
• Picture Exploration - Teacher Modeling (15 mins):
• 🖼️ Display the large, colorful picture.
• 👀 Point to an object in the picture (e.g., a tree). Ask, "What kind of tree is this?"
• 🌳 Guide them to use adjectives: "It's a tall tree," "It's a green tree."
• 🐥 Repeat with other objects, explicitly stating, "Tall and green are adjectives because they describe the tree!"
• Guided Practice - Student Participation (15 mins):
• 🤝 Divide students into small groups or pairs.
• 🔍 Ask each group to find one object in the picture and come up with two adjectives to describe it.
• 🗣️ Have groups share their object and adjectives with the class. Write their adjectives on a chart.
• Independent Practice - Draw and Describe (10 mins):
• ✏️ Distribute index cards or whiteboards.
• 🎨 Instruct students to draw one object from the picture (or something new) and write (or draw a symbol for) one adjective that describes it.
• 💬 Circulate and provide individual support, asking questions like, "What does your drawing look like?"

📝 Assessment

• 🗣️ Show students a new, simple picture (e.g., a single animal or object).
• 👂 Ask each student to verbally describe what they see using at least one adjective.
• ✅ Note their ability to use describing words and identify them as adjectives.