With beautiful, bright pages the book can really capture the attention of a young child and show them how fun it is to use descriptive words. It also adds a section showing how adjectives can help you compare things. Then, in simple language, it talks about all of the things that adjectives can do – they describe nouns, they tell us how something looks, sounds, feels or behaves. If you were an adjective, then you would be… The book starts by telling kids to look for adjectives by finding the big color words in the example sentences throughout the book. We have nouns and verbs down, so I’m going to have to go check the adverb one out of our local library. This great book by Michael Dahl is part of a four book word fun series that includes if you were a noun, a verb, an adjective and an adverb. So when we found the book “ If you were an Adjective” a few weeks ago at the library, I knew it was going to be something that she enjoyed. My little teacher’s pet loves the concept and has spent parts of her fall break finding colorful ways to explain everything from her New York trip to the yummy macaroni and cheese at Panera. It is an important part of the learning process to utilize good words to describe what you are talking about. In my daughter’s first grade class, they have been learning a ton about adjectives and making a special point of using them in all of their sentences.
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