Adjective/Verb Charades: One Computer/One Projector

Date: 10/23/14
Grade: 1
st
Special Education Classroom

Specific Objective: After completing this lesson, students will be able to write out
adjectives and nouns when completing a comprehension worksheet.

Goal: Students will apply what was presented in a PowerPoint in helping them when
playing a game of Charades. They will be able to differentiate between verbs and
adjectives within a sentence.

Equipment:
Computer, PowerPoint, and Projector
PowerPoint presentation about verbs and adjectives
Pieces of paper
A bowl/bag for kids to pick out the paper with the specified verb/adjective

ISTE-T standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.1.E
Use verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future (e.g., Yesterday I walked home;
Today I walk home; Tomorrow I will walk home).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.1.F
Use frequently occurring adjectives.

Planning: Teachers will create a PowerPoint presentation reviewing basic adjectives
and verbs within a sentence. You will create visuals within the presentation including
adding circles around words that are either nouns or adjectives. Teachers will provide
definitions for these terms and show multiple examples. Students will be asked to come
up to the screen and point to the noun or adjective in the sentence presented on the
slide.

Presentation:
Show videos on verbs and adjectives
o Verb Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MKmbyfhkkE
o Adjective Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JZi2oDvPs4

Show PowerPoint presentation you have created

Activity:
Students will be playing Charades and using words that are nouns or adjectives. There
will be 6 groups of 5 so students have multiple opportunities to play. One student will
pick out a word from the bucket and it will have a word on it and below it will say verb
or adjective. The student must then act out the word and have group members figure out
what action or word the student is trying to act.

The person on one of the teams that is chosen pick up a card. They will not show anyone
what the card says; only they will know.

When students figure out the word, the person that acted out the word will ask their
group if they think it is a verb or adjective. Students will then discuss why the word is a
verb or adjective based on the lecture presented before class.

Review/Assessment:
Students will be given a worksheet that reads small sentences; their goal is to either
circle or underline a verb/adjective. The teacher can pull up this worksheet on the
projector and do half of the problems with the students and allow the kids to work
independently on the rest of the worksheet.