List of adjectives in developmental order:
Basic – ahead, alike, afraid, bad, behind, beginning/ middle/ end, big, clean, cold, (basic colors: black, blue, green, orange,red, yellow), dirty, fake, fast, fat, funny, good, great, happy, heavy, high, hot, hungry, lazy, long, loud, low, mad, many, middle, more, new, nice, old, open, pretty, quiet, real, sad, scary, short, sick, silly, slow, small, strong, tall, thirsty, tired, tricky, upside down, wet, yummy, etc.
Early Elementary – alive, angry, backward, better, best, beautiful, breakable, bright, broken, bumpy, careful, clear, closed, cloudy, clumsy, (later developing colors: pink, purple, gray, brown, white, etc.), comfortable, dangerous, delicious, deep, difficult, dry, early, easy, empty, excellent, exciting, famous, far, first, few, flat, free, freezing, friendly, full, half, hard, healthy, helpful, horrible, icy, important, impossible, itchy, juicy, large, last, late, lazy, light, loose, more, near, nervous, noisy, nosy, past, perfect, plastic, poor, powerful, quick, rainy, ready, rotten, rough, round, salty, same, second, secret, shallow, shy, skinny, sour, spicy, spotted, sticky, straight, strange, striped, sweet, tame, thankful, tight, tiny, tough, underlined, used, warm, weak, wide, wild, wise, whole, wild, wonderful, wrong, young, etc.
Later Elementary – alphabetic, ancient, average, bitter, boiling, brave, challenging, cheap, cool, complete, concerned, covered, crooked, crowded, curly, damaged, dizzy, dull, dusty, equal, expensive, familiar, flexible, fresh, gentle, gigantic, gorgeous, greasy, greater than, grumpy, guilty, imaginary, innocent, interesting, less than, level, massive, melted, miniature, mysterious, natural, necessary, nervous, normal, nutritious, odd, old-fashioned, opposite, plain, precious, previous, proud, possible, public, rare, responsible, ripe, scientific, selfish, separate, serious, silent, similar, simple, solid, steep, sudden, thin, uneven, unknown, unusual, valuable, violent, wasteful, wealthy, worried, etc.
Secondary – abundant, accurate, amused, brief,(advanced colors: tan, lavender, blue-green, etc.), complex, common, damp, disrespectful, dull, eager, empty, entertaining, exact, faint, frail, frequent, handsome, helpless, historic, hollow, intelligent, irrelevant, jealous, magnificent, medical, modern, mushy, negative, obedient, ordinary, overconfident, parallel, political, positive, precise, prickly, pro-ductive, puny, rapid, relevant, roasted, roomy, slanted, specific, stiff, tender, unequal, vacant, vast, etc.
Worksheets
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(1) Basic Matching with pictures Doc PDF; (2) Basic Matching Doc PDF; (3) Basic Sentence Search Doc PDF; (4) Later Developing Sentence Search Doc PDF ; (5) Advanced Sentence Search Doc PDF ; (6) Basic Adjective Sentence Drop Doc PDF ; (7) Later Developing Sentence Drop Doc PDF ; (8) Later Developing Sentence Drop Doc PDF; (9) Sentence Maze 1 Doc PDF; (10) Sentence Bulls Eye 1 Doc PDF; (11) Sentence Bulls Eye 2 Doc PDF; (12) Sentence Bulls Eye 3 Doc PDF; (13) Sentence Jumble Doc PDF; (14) Words that work Doc PDF
Adjective Bingo – Basic
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(1) Basic Adjectives Bingo Card 1 doc odt pdf; (2) Basic Adjectives Bingo Card 2 doc odt pdf; (3) Basic Adjectives Bingo Card 3 doc odt pdf; (4) Basic Adjectives Bingo Card 4 doc odt pdf; (5) Basic Adjectives Words doc odt pdf
Adjective Bingo – Later Developing Adjectives
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(1) Later Developing Adjectives Bingo Card 1 doc odt pdf; (2) Later Developing Adjectives Bingo Card 2 pdf; (3) Later Developing Adjectives Bingo Card 3 pdf; (4) Later Developing Adjectives Bingo Card 4 pdf; (5) Later Developing Adjectives Words pdf
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Adjective Pictures
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(1) Basic Adjective Pix 1 doc pdf; (2) Basic Adjective Pix 2 doc pdf; (3) Basic Adjective Pix 3 doc pdf; (4) Basic Adjective Pix 4 doc pdf; (5) Later Developing Adjective Pix 1 doc pdf; (6) Later Developing Adjective Pix 2 pdf; (7) Later Developing Adjective Pix 3 pdf; (8) Later Developing Adjective Pix 4 pdf
Adjective Fill in the Blank Cards:
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Basic
(1) Basic Adjective Cards 1 Doc PDF; (2) Basic Adjective Cards 2 Doc PDF; (3) Basic Adjective Sentence Cards 1 Doc PDF; (4) Basic Adjective Sentence Cards 2 Doc PDF; (5) Basic Adjective Sentence Cards 3 Doc PDF; (6) Adjective Backs Doc PDF
Early Elementary
(1) Adjective Cards 1 Doc PDF; (2) Adjective Cards 2 Doc PDF; (3) Adjective Sentences 1 Doc PDF; (4) Adjective Sentences 2 Doc PDF; (5) Adjective Sentences 3 Doc PDF; (6) Adjective Card Backs Doc PDF
Adjective Comprehension Strips
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(1) Basic Adjectives – Wet Doc PDF; (2) Basic Adjectives – Tired Doc PDF; (3) Basic Adjectives – Middle Doc PDF; (4) Basic Adjectives – Long Doc PDF; (5) Basic Adjectives – Happy Doc PDF; (6) Basic Adjectives – Fast Doc PDF; (7) Expanded Adjectives – Not Wet Doc PDF; (8) Expanded Adjectives – Not Old Doc PDF
Adjective “Uno” Cards
Cut out this deck of 42 cards, and play like Uno. Students practice basic and/or later developing adjectives while trying to gain and retain the most cards.
Preview:
Download PDF: uno adjectives-merged (7 pages, 42 cards)
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Love your adjective lists in developmental order – just what I needed for my assignment, thanks!
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