A full lesson teaching the difference between adjectives and adverbs and how to use them in your writing.

Adjectives describe nouns (people, places and things). Adverbs describe verbs (doing/ action words).

This resource is a PowerPoint presentation which includes a full lesson’s worth of activities. The notes section also includes teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.

The presentation includes:
√ Learning objective
√ Three success criteria
√ Starter activity - your AFL - identifying adjectives and adverbs activity
√ Teaching input - exploring what adjectives and adverbs are, the differences between them and examples of each being used in sentences.
√ Differentiated speaking & listening activities - group/ paired activity (3 ways of differentiation)
√ Differentiated writing tasks (3 ways of differentiation)
√ Extension activity - apply learning with a writing activity
√ Growth mindset challenges
√ Plenary - Extend the learning by looking at exceptions

PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.

This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.