Adjective Mats Writing: Setting 1-2 Gifted Or 3-6 Mainstream

Adjective Mats for SETTING

Created for GAT 1-3 but suitable for mainstream 3-6.

Great for teaching creative writing, narrative and description.

Includes

Five different adjective mats (positive, negative, the senses, nature and atmosphere)

Colour and black and white copies

Ways to use adjective mats before, during or after writing!

Teacher model using the mats for word selection during modelled or shared writing.

Have students create a list of adjectives from the mats before they begin writing.

Challenge learners to describe using advanced vocabulary while they write. Pop the mats on their desks for reference.

Use the mats as an editing tool to deepen written descriptions. Editing is always fun with a partner!

Take sentences from a book and improve them with the adjective mats.

Vocab work- use a dictionary to look up the meaning of some adjectives that are new. Use them correctly in a sentence.

Justify the use of your word selection from the mats.

How to use:

Print, then laminate OR place in a plastic folder.