Adjectives Color Nouns, Adverbs Color Verbs

Two-column sort: teacher reads 10 words; class signals NOUN-word (point to green box) or VERB-word (point to red box). Then teacher introduces 'words that color' those — green-with-stripe = adjective, red-with-stripe = adverb.

• Use mime to act out verbs and adverbs together (walked + quickly)

M-2-F-GR-05-B Illustration

Six-panel cartoon strip: panel 1 — child walked QUICKLY (motion lines); panel 2 — child walked SLOWLY (drooping figure); panel 3 — child spoke LOUDLY (big speech bubble); panel 4 — child spoke SOFTLY (tiny speech bubble); panel 5 — child laughed LOUDLY; panel 6 — child laughed QUIETLY. Each panel labeled with the verb+adverb pair. Print-ready, primary colors, multicultural cast.

Two new word families today. ADJECTIVES are words that DESCRIBE a noun — the RED ball, the TIRED cat, the SMALL house. We learned these in Grade 1. ADVERBS are NEW — they describe a VERB (an action). She ran QUICKLY. He whispered SOFTLY. We waited PATIENTLY. Many adverbs end in -ly, but not all (yesterday, soon, here, there are adverbs of time and place). The English NC even teaches us a spelling rule: take an adjective like QUICK, add -LY, get the adverb QUICKLY.

• QUICK colors a NOUN ('the quick fox'). QUICKLY colors a VERB ('the fox ran quickly'). Different jobs, different words.

  model quickly (adverb)

  prompt Quick → ___
• Loudly tells us HOW she sang. That makes it an adverb.

  model Loudly modifies sang.

  prompt Find the adverb: 'She sang loudly at the party.'

• What does QUIETLY describe in 'He spoke quietly'? (Spoke — the verb.)
• Form an adverb from SLOW. (Slowly.)

M-2-F-GR-05-A Chart

Two-column chart: left column GREEN labeled ADJECTIVE (modifies NOUN), examples 'red ball / tired cat / small house' with each adjective underlined; right column PURPLE labeled ADVERB (modifies VERB), examples 'ran quickly / spoke softly / waited patiently'. Bottom row: 'TO MAKE AN ADVERB FROM AN ADJECTIVE: add -LY' with quick→quickly, slow→slowly, loud→loudly. Print-ready 11x17, dyslexic-friendly font.

• Adjective-adverb sort: 12 word cards (sad, sadly, happy, happily, soft, softly, slow, slowly, loud, loudly, quick, quickly). Sort onto green or purple mat.

  scaffold POS color cards as legend
• Sentence fill-in: '(The/A) ___ dog ran ___ across the yard.' Choose adj for first blank, adv for second.

  scaffold Sentence-frame card

• Write one sentence containing one adjective AND one adverb. Underline adj in green, adv in purple.

• Hold up your sentence. Show partner the green underline and the purple underline.
• Tomorrow: paragraph day — let's actually WRITE one with a topic + details + closing.

• Listen to a family member tonight. Catch ONE adjective and ONE adverb in their speech. Write each in your notebook.