But as they begin to study the English language in more depth, they must learn what is meant by the term “adjective” and must also be able to identify which words are adjectives, and even come up with their own examples.
You will struggle to find a whole workbook on adjectives, but individual worksheets on the topic are readily available online. And you’ll be pleased to hear that we’ve put an excellent selection of them together for you here so that you don’t have to.
The adjective worksheets that follow in the list below are for differing levels of ability. So you could start off with some of the easier ones and the child/children can work their way up.
Most of the worksheets that follow are completely free to download and use. They aren’t listed in any particular order.
This is an excellent worksheet for introducing the idea of adjectives for the first time to young kids. It’s very colorful and engaging with nice pictures.
The sheet features 8 boxes, each with one adjective and two pictures. The child is tasked with reading the adjectives in each box and circling the picture which the adjective describes.
To access this worksheet, simply click on this link. It’s free to download and print.
This is also a great worksheet for young kids. It features 10 different pictures in two columns alongside a lined blank space and the noun that names what is in the picture. These pictures are in full color and easily recognizable.
And at the top of the sheet there’s a box featuring 10 different well known and familiar adjectives. The child is then tasked with writing the corresponding adjective from the choices in the box to the right of the picture and to the left of the noun.
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What could be a more engaging way of teaching adjectives than with a board game? This colorful worksheet with pictures of cute cartoon characters can be used as a game board.
Kids take turns rolling a die and moving around a board. When they land on a square which features a specified adjective and matching picture, the child is tasked with saying a sentence that uses that adjective.
Kids can play this game in teams and they gain points as they go along. The team with the most points at the end wins.
To access this worksheet, simply click on this link. It’s free to download and print.
This is a great worksheet for teaching kids that there are different categories of adjectives, and how adjectives can be used to describe a wide range of things about an object, person, or animal, whether it’s the color, shape, size, or other words for appearance.
There are many different adjectives listed in a box at the top of the worksheet, and underneath there are 4 columns labeled color, shape, size, and appearance respectively.
The student is tasked with writing all the adjectives provided into the corresponding column.
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This 15-page pack of worksheets offers students multiple ways to demonstrate their understanding of adjectives, including filling in the blanks, choosing the correct adjectives, connecting opposite adjectives, comparative adjectives, and superlative adjectives.
These worksheets feature images of cute cartoon characters in full color.
To access these worksheets, simply click on this link. It’s free to download and print.
With our visual language changing so much in recent years with the advent of emojis in text messages and on social media and messaging apps, what could be more engaging for kids than a worksheet centered around emojis?
There are 8 super size emojis displayed on the worksheet, and the student is tasked with identifying the emotion or emotions that are being represented by the images.
It’s important to note however that some of the descriptive words that could be used for this exercise are not only adjectives but also verbs and adverbs.
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This is a really fun activity worksheet for first graders. They are presented with a very large jumble of all kinds of different words. The child has to look at each word and assess whether, or not, it is an adjective, and draw a circle around all the adjectives.
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For those students who already have a good understanding of what makes a word an adjective, they can take the exercise a step further with worksheets like this one aimed at third graders, which explain what is meant by comparative and superlative adjectives.
Students are given 5 sentences with blank spaces to fill in. They are told which is the relevant adjective for each sentence, and the student is to supply the corresponding comparative and superlative adjective.
To access this worksheet, simply click on this link. It’s free to download and print.
Crossword puzzles are an engaging, hands-on way to build and get used to new vocabulary words and practice their spelling.
In this crossword puzzle worksheet aimed at 2nd graders, students are to read the two lists of clues to identify several different adjectives, including the likes of “famous,” “serious,” and “rotten.”
To access this worksheet, simply click on this link. It’s free to download and print.
This is a really fun adjective worksheet for 4th graders, with an engaging and silly story about a frog and an ogre. However, lots of the words are missing.
But, there’s a large bank of adjectives at the top of the sheet, and the students can go through the story, using the adjective bank to fill in the blanks and complete the story.
To access this worksheet, simply click on this link. It’s free to download and print.
This is an excellent adjectives worksheet for 6th through to 8th grade students, because it builds on what they already know about adjectives, and expands on it.
The top half of the worksheet explains what is required of the student, and on the lower half of the worksheet, there are 4 columns.
Heading each of these columns is a common adjective. Then the student is tasked with coming up with alternative, and/or more specific or descriptive adjectives.
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More often than not, you can use more than one adjective to describe something, and that’s where coordinate adjectives come in, listing one adjective after another to provide a fuller description of something or someone.
This worksheet explains what coordinate adjectives are and how you are meant to place commas after each one in a sentence.
Then there’s a list of 12 sentences and the students are tasked with placing commas after every coordinate adjective. Simple but important. It’s aimed at 7th graders.
To access this worksheet, simply click on this link. It’s free to download and print.
It’s very important that kids learn the difference between an opinion and a fact. And a key way to differentiate between the two is by looking at the adjectives used in a sentence or phrase. And that’s where worksheets like this one come in.
At the top of the worksheet is a bank of opinion and fact adjectives. Then there’s a series of 10 statements, and the student is tasked with labeling each statement as either a fact or an opinion.
Then the student completes a series of 5 sentences, using adjectives, and then indicates whether the resulting statement is a fact or an opinion.
To access this worksheet, simply click on this link. It’s free to download and print.
Final Thoughts
So, as you can see, there are actually very many ways to teach kids about adjectives and test their understanding.
We hope you’ve found at least one that you’d like to use!
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