Adjectives list for first grade

Excellent Adjectives for Kids- A Comprehensive List

Young children start learning about people and their surroundings from an early age, which is why teaching them adjectives is the perfect way to give them a solid foundation from which they can experience the world and build their vocabulary. In addition, by learning how to use descriptive adjectives to describe these experiences, kids start to feel more in control of their own world. The value of adjectives for kids comes from their ability to characterise a noun, giving more detailed and imaginative information about the object of discussion. 

By adding the ability to visualise something more clearly, a reader can learn to convey feelings with more emotion and to describe exactly what you want using precise language. Do you want your child to expand their vocabulary by learning age-appropriate adjectives for kids for just 20 minutes every day? Then you should get the KidSmart app. KidSmart is more than just being one of those writing apps for kids, but a tried and tested educational tool geared towards critical thinking and self-learning through games and interactive activities.  

Here’s a list of common adjectives for kids that you can start teaching based on their reading and interaction levels:

Contents

• 1 Adjectives for Kids by Grade (US) or Year (UK)
  • 1.1 Grade 1
  • 1.2 Grade 2 – 3
• 2 Download practice worksheet packs
  • 2.1 Grade 4 – 6
• 3 Classifying Adjectives: Grammar for Kids
• 4 How KidSmart Can Help Writing for Kids
• 5 Download Practice Packs
• 6 More Reading

Adjectives for Kids by Grade (US) or Year (UK)

Grade

The following list of describing words are commonly used.

Colours: blue, green, purple, orange, black, white, pink, red, yellow

Size: big, small, short, tall, fat, thin

Sounds: loud, quiet

Shapes: round, square, oval, triangular

Numbers: one, two, few, many

Touch/Texture: rough, smooth, soft, hard

Weather: sunny, rainy, windy, dark, light, cloudy

Grade

Alphabetising the common adjectives for kids can help them learn the describing words and their respective meanings more quickly and organise their learning process. This will also allow them to find adjectives that start with a specific letter more conveniently and explore other options more easily.

Letters A-C: angry, bumpy, busy, brave,  crispy, cruel, cheerful, chilly

Letters D-H: dangerous, deep, dirty, dry, empty, equal, easy freezing, funny, fat, fluffy, furry, fuzzy, huge

Letters I-N: itchy, icy, juicy, kind, lazy, long, lumpy, left, large, mean, messy, naughty, new, nice

Letters O-R: oily, old, plump, pretty, proud, quick, ready, ripe, right

Letters S-Z: short, simple, slimy, sloppy, slow, spiky, spoiled, sticky, stiff, still, stinky, strong, swollen, thin, tiny, tricky, ugly, weak, wise, wrong, wet

Download practice worksheet packs

Download Adjectives for Grade 3 Kids Pack 1

Grade

Letters A-C: able, adventurous, absurd,  apologetic, aware, alert, amusing, ancient, annoyed, anxious, bitter, brilliant, bashful, beautiful, bulky, capable, cautious, creative, creepy, cruel, curly, challenging, charming, clever, compassionate, cosy, cranky
You can learn many more adjectives for kids that start with a or start with b.

Letters D – H: damp, daring, delicate, delicious, disrespectful, dreadful, dull, ecstatic, endless, enormous, entertaining, exhausted, fantastic, foolish, frightened, furious, fussy, gentle, gigantic, gorgeous, graceful
Take a deep dive into many more adjectives that begin with e.

Letters I – N: innocent, icky, intelligent, infinite, jaded, joyful, jolly, jumpy, kind-hearted, kindly, knowledgeable, likely, lousy, loyal, lucky, marvellous, naive, nervous, nimble
Familiarise yourself with many excellent adjectives for kids that start with j, with m and with n.

Letters O – S: optimistic, oval, petite, pleasant, polite, precise, prickly, salty, shocking, slick, slippery, sour, sparkling, straight, stubborn, stunning
Jump to the list of excellent adjectives for kids that start with r and that start with s.

Letters T – Z: temporary, terrified, timid, tricky, truthful, whimsical, young, yummy

There are different kinds of descriptive adjectives in the English language, all of which will at some point or the other be a solid stepping stone towards improving grammar for kids as they get older and advance through the school system. After organising the words in alphabetical order, these descriptive adjectives have been further sorted into categories for greater understanding and can be quite useful when preparing for promotional exams, such as the CEM and 11+.  

Proper Adjectives 

These adjectives are derived from proper nouns and are used to describe something in terms of culture, nationality, or religious affiliation. 

Some examples of proper adjectives include: African, Asian, British, French, Japanese, Latino, American, Australian, Catholic, Lutheran, Jewish

Food Adjectives

There are many words that can be used to conjure tasteful images when discussing food choices. With the proper adjective definition for kids, they can understand the difference between a “ tasty, cheesy, homemade, spaghetti with meatballs” and a “regular mass-produced fast food pasta,” Some examples include: 

Sweets: sugary, chocolatey, syrupy, minty, 

Fruits: ripe, sour, juicy, tart, acidic

Dairy: Cheesy, buttery, creamy

Beef: Chewy, peppery, spicy, marinated, lean, dry

Cereal: crunchy, soggy, flakey, nutty

Adjectives for Describing a Person

There are many terms that can be used to describe people in terms of their physical appearance and personality traits. It is important for your child to have these words in their written and spoken vocabulary because as they grow older, they will at some point, face a situation that requires them to describe someone. Some examples include: 

Characteristics and Traits: clever, creative, kind, generous, considerate, flexible, mysterious

Personality traits: calm, humble, arrogant, proud, charismatic, mean

Physical Appearance: straight hair, cropped hair, blonde, brunette, lanky, dwarfish, plump, skinny 

Learn many more adjectives to describe a person.

Happy Adjectives

These words are great for describing jubilant situations, helping children create strong descriptions for a party or celebration scenes like their last birthday or playdate. 

Examples include: beaming, joyous, blissful, joyful, delightful, pleased, cheerful, jovial, jolly, glad, thrilled, elated, gleeful, sunny

Peaceful Adjectives

These words are used to describe a state of serenity. Some examples include: serene, calm, harmonious, peaceful, nonviolent, quiet, undisturbed, still, soothing, tranquil, relaxing, restful

Sporty Adjectives

Many school curricula include a variety of sporting events as part of their physical education activities, so your children have most likely come across these types of adjectives. 

Examples include: accurate, active, agile, athletic, frenetic, skilful, speedy, swift, slick, 

Adjectives to Describe a Place

These descriptive words can serve as a springboard for the new territory that your child visits or reads about. By learning the right adjectives to describe a location, they become even more interested in learning more about the world outside of their immediate surroundings. 

Some examples include: gigantic, grassy, exotic near, far, tidy, spacious, spooky, smelly, lively

Because descriptive adjectives are so common in everyday conversations and learning materials, learning more about them is vital to creating and speaking grammatically correct sentences. KidSmart can help achieve this through its array of gamification strategies and activities that are designed for 

• Progressive Grammar – The app follows progressive development methodology and introduces new concepts based on the level of understanding specific to your child.

• Spelling – Since KidSmart is geared towards the UK curriculum, it presents words that are relevant for the child’s year and tests them multiple times to assess their confidence level. It then adjusts the difficulty level automatically based on the responses.

• Vocabulary Building – As your kids progress, new words are introduced with meaning and usage examples. They also have access to the Oxford Dictionary at any time. 

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Download Adjectives for Grade 3 Kids Pack 1

More Reading

Adjectives with S
What’s an adjective?
BBC: What are adjectives for year 2-3?

What Are Adjectives? | 1st Grade Grammar

Adjectives are words that describe nouns.

Nouns are words for people, places or things.

Adjectives usually come before the nouns they describe, like here:

Tall man 💂‍♀️

Round ball ⚽️

Funny lady 😂

Cute kitten 🐱

Tiny ladybug 🐞

All the bold words are adjectives!

Adjectives can describe people, places, or things. 

Let's look at example adjectives of each.

Smart 🧠

Young 👧

Friendly 😺

Crowded

Huge

Cold

Fun

Clean

Blue

Square

Loud

Old

These are all adjectives! 🎉

There are many ways you can describe something.   

Adjectives can describe something's color, size, shape, type, and even how many there are!

Describing Type

Adjectives can tell what type something is. Take a look!

Silly dog

Red apple

Nice teacher

Describing Number

Adjectives can describe how many there are of something.

Four chairs

Two boys

What's the adjective in this sentence? 👇

The cat had six kittens on the farm.

Tip: Adjectives can describe the color, type, and even how many there are of something.

Tip: The word "the" is called an article, not an adjective, even though it describes a noun too. You'll learn more about "the" later.

Is there a word above that describes how many kittens there are? 🤔

Yes! There are six kittens. Six is an adjective!

Great! 😃

What's the adjective in the sentence? 👇

Peter works in a very tall building.

First, what is the noun we are describing?

We are describing the building. Good job! 🎉

What word is describing the building?

Yes! Tall is the adjective.

Tip: "Very" is not an adjective. It does not describe a noun. It actually describes the adjective "tall". You'll learn more about it later. 🙉

Tip: "a" is not called an adjective. It's called an article, like the word "the".

Great job!

Now, ace the practice.

Russian lesson on the topic "Adjective name" (speech development). 2nd grade

Objectives of the lesson:

• to improve the student's activity aimed at mastering ways to enrich speech;
• improve speech development skills;
• to form the ability to use adjectives in speech;
• to cultivate aesthetic feelings, love for the native language.

We are now studying the section of the Russian language "Morphology".

Morphology is the science of parts of speech. What parts of speech are we familiar with? (support tables: noun, verb).

Remember what the words in these parts of speech mean and what questions they answer? (find a continuation to the key words).

Today we will devote a lesson to the words of another part of speech - the adjective (supporting words).

What do adjectives stand for and what questions do they answer (continued)?

Your task is to be able to find adjectives, put questions to them, change adjectives, understand their role in our speech.

There will be many interesting simple and complex tasks at the lesson.

What are the endings of adjectives? Write down the endings (sample on the board).

Make words from letters and find an extra word, explain your choice (letters on a magnet):

What part of speech are these words? Prove it.

Match the nouns to these adjectives (rain, forest, day).

What season is missing. Form an adjective from the word spring. Choose the right noun and write down the resulting phrase.

III. Main part

Guess the riddles.

Available in black, red, blue, with a hard filling in the middle.
I am friends with a sharp knife and I will draw what I want (pencil)

Small animals, pink ears, gray fur coats,
sharp teeth, sit in a mink, gnaw crusts (mice)

Round, hot, bright, blinding, it looks at the whole
world, but does not command itself (the sun)

Which words in the riddle helped solve it? Ask a question, determine the part of speech.

Apple, cucumber, raspberry.

Color, taste, size.

What kind of juice can it be?

Jam?

Porridge (cereals: semolina, buckwheat, rice, barley, millet).

Part of speech?

Vegetables, books, furniture, groceries, milk, bread, meat, fish, flowers, shoes, skates, drill.

Read the adjectives.

5. The game "What's up?" Pick up a number of signs for the intended object (cards with objects, one student - the driver turns to the board)

Bucket, bus, birch.

6. Independent work (on a piece of paper). Enter words that make sense. Find adjectives in the text, underline them with a wavy line (check - read the adjective first, then the found noun)

There is a strong one in the yard …………………. . In the fields and meadows lies white ……………. At the house there was a big ………………………. Slippery on the pond ……………. Lie down in a lair …………………. . Sleeping in a prickly hole ……………. The birds have long flown away to …….

Sad, bright, healthy, soft, sighted.

2. Look up synonyms

Sticky, decrepit, meek, shaggy, courageous.

/Quick, gentle, shaggy , frosty, quiet, odorous, old , damp, mighty, sticky , brave /

Golden jewelry, golden words, golden hands, golden heart, golden autumn.

Milk, flowers, boredom, hello, nightingale, clay.

Pine branch - pine branches.

• bunches of rowan - ………
• honey taste - …………
• forest dweller - ………
• rooster crow - ………
• nightingale singing - ……
• dog barking - ……. .

Sometimes in life there are times when you need to very accurately match the signs to the subject.

The boy lost his dog. He wrote an ad, he does not have a photo of his pet. Read this announcement. Is it possible to find the loss according to the description given by the boy?

Here is his dog (illustration). Help your child accurately describe the dog. What name would you give to such a dog? (Choose a suitable nickname: Rex, Light, Kid)

Front work.

A birch forest covered with tender green foliage is wonderful in early autumn!

The frost was healthy, but the hare was warmed by his gray fur coat.

In the forest, between the branches of trees, a fox's tail often flickers. She is checking her stocks for the winter.

Fish, socks, mirror (pictures)

Features of adjectives

" Mosaic game"

Mosaic is a picture of multi-colored pebbles or glass. In our game, adjectives will play the role of colored glass.

Mosaic adjectives:

Blue checkered smart square purple funny kind winged striped bald cheerful angry angry furry huge fluffy shaggy pink white cold hot multi-colored magic silk transparent glass paper tin copper blue deep wide golden silver nosed wool beautiful orange rag good stone tail warm flat eared flying curve light yellow bright black red amazing weird weird lilac crimson gray floral velvet satin lovely wonderful cute brown tiny big huge iron brick scratchy

Replace ellipsis with any adjective in any order. For example: “On a hot stone planet” or “On a fluffy striped planet”, or “On a square purple planet”…

On ………. . ………… the planet lived ………..………….. little men , they had ………… …………………. eyes, ……… hair, ………….. ears. But very ……………….. character. Little men had houses ……………, with ………………….. roofs. Near each house there was ……………….. a dog. Dogs on this …………….. planet were instead of chickens, because ………………. the houses were guarded by ………………..dragons and …………………..ostriches. They sat on ………………….. ropes and growled. On ……………trees sang ………………. songs …………….. flies. AT ………………. forests were found ……………….. baby elephants, …………………. chickens, ………….. hedgehogs and …………………… lizards. And on ………………….. turtles ………………….. little men went to visit.
The ruler of ………………….. of the planet was a human ………………… and ………………., he lived in …………………… ……………………. palace with ……………….. windows and …………………. doors. He had ………………………. servants.
Once in ……………….. the garden near ……… the palace grew …………………….. a plant.

Application

Adjective ranks by meaning Grade 6 online training at Rostelecom Lyceum

Synopsis

speech. By what signs can an adjective be distinguished from other parts of speech?