Writing Detailed Descriptions and

Categorizing Adjectives/Nouns/Verbs
Ms. Conrads Classroom

Subject Area: Language Arts
Grade Level: 2
nd
grade
Time Needed: 20-30 minutes

ISE-T Standards Met:
1. Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity
d. Model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in
learning with students in face-to-face and virtual environments
2. Design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments
a. Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporates
digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.
c. Customize and personalize learning activities to address
students diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using
digital tools and resources.

This lesson offers a visually stimulating and conversation-based activity
that reaches children of many different learning styles.


Lesson Plan

Objective: After looking at a peculiar object, or watching a short clip
of an activity, students will collectively create a detailed description of
what they saw. Then, as a class, locate adjectives, nouns and verbs from
their description.

Goal: Students will be able to create detailed descriptions of things
they see and then be able to differentiate between adjectives, nouns and
verbs in a sentence.

Equipment Needed: computer, Microsoft Word, access to internet

Plan: Teacher will show short clips of people doing different types of
activities or photos of objects on the screen projected to the class and
have students collectively create a detailed observation of what they
just saw. The teacher will type out the descriptions that the students
have created on Word that can be projected in front of the class. The
teacher will have students pick out adjectives and highlight these words
in one color and do the same for nouns and verbs highlighting them in
different colors.

Presentation:
Show videos of following activites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur32U9VTB_E (0:30-0:40)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rwf8UwKEV0 (0:15-0:25)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfDoGQ6urE0 (2:35-2:45)

Show the following images:
http://www.jackicking.com/wp-
content/uploads/2012/02/toe_socks.jpg
http://www.daniel-phelps.com/ct137s14/wp-
content/uploads/2014/02/sip-a-bowl-.jpg
http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131110170718/official-
furby/images/5/5d/Black_White_Furby_whit_brown_eyes.jpg
http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/14/147020/3094710-
4133008703-tumbl.jpg
http://cdn.sneakhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/weird-
animals-3-620x495.jpg

Activity:
Students will create detailed descriptions of what they see together as a
class by raising hands to offer ideas. Teacher will be typing out the
descriptions given on a Word document that is projected in front of the
class. After each description, the teacher will ask students to identify
the adjectives in the description with raising hands to offer suggestions.
If correct, the teacher will highlight the word in a specific color and then
move on to locating nouns and verbs and using a different color for
each.


Review:
Students will be given a worksheet filled with different sentences and be
asked to underline adjectives, put a box around nouns and circle verbs.
The students can work independently on the worksheets and then
review them with their classmates at their table after everyone has
finished.