2nd Grade Adjectives Educational Resources

Adjectives are responsible for coating language with mood and emotion. Second graders begin to focus on adding more detail, and therefore more interest, to their vocabulary with lessons on adjectives. These adjective resources introduce second graders to this creative component of grammar.

Students in second grade are introduced to adjectives, a form of creative expression through language. They learn how adjectives differ from adverbs and how to recognize them in a sentence. There are many resources provided by Education.com that center on second grade adjective practice. The lesson plan STRETCH: Adding Details to Simple Sentences encourages kids to be more specific with language because utilizing descriptive words makes writing more interesting and storytelling more energetic. Mad, Sad, Happy, Glad: Character Feelings is a lesson plan that teaches kids new adjective vocabulary words that relate to human emotions.

There are a few games that help with adjective recognition, too. Adjectives are nouns' partners in crime, so the game Word Transporter: Adjectives and Nouns teaches what adjectives are appropriate to use with certain nouns. Imagine Life on a Cloud is a hands-on activity that encourages kids to get outside and look to the sky. They will spot clouds and come up with fantastic, imaginative descriptors for what they see.

Second graders' language abilities bloom with the adjective resources supplied in the Learning Library.