Prepare flashcards showing two objects or individuals, featuring distinct characteristics. For example, draw a tall and a short man on one flashcard, wearing the same clothes or two apples, identical in shape, but one being green and the other one red. Explain that on the flashcards, both individuals are men and both objects are apples and ask students how it is possible to distinguish between them. Students can tell you that men have different height and apples have different color and this is where you can start describing the role of adjectives as words that modify a noun.
Visit the website "Garden of Praise" to find the adjective song. (See Resource 1) On the page with the song's lyrics, you can see that the adjectives have a red font. Make a pair of flashcards for each adjective, one depicting it accurately and the other one being irrelevant; for example, for "big brown dog," make a flashcard with a big and brown dog and another one with a small, white one. Make copies of the lyrics and distribute them to students. Sing the song altogether in the classroom and stop when you reach an adjective. Show students the relevant pair of flashcards and ask them to tell you which of them is true to the lyrics.
Divide the class into groups of four children. Make a copy of a scavenger hunt list for every team, detailing the items they have to find as quickly as they can. Use adjectives to describe the exact characteristics of items you want students to search for. For example, write "short pencil," "red pen," "plastic bag" and "thick book." Students must search for these items within the classroom and in their own bags. This activity allows you to introduce children to groups of adjectives, such as those denoting size, color and material.
Make a row on top of the board, listing the order you must keep when you have more than one adjective in the sentence. On the far right of the row, write "Opinion" and continue to the right with "Size," "Age," "Shape," "Color," "Origin," "Material" and "Purpose." Prepare flashcards, each containing one adjective that denotes one of these qualities, such as "big" for size and "wooden" for material. Ask one student at a time to come to the board; give him a noun, such as bed and ask him to use relevant adjective flashcards, in the correct order, to make a meaningful sentence that describes a bed.