Oreo Activity

Oreo Adjective Activity

Objective:

• To teach students how to use a variety of adjectives as details to expand their word choice while writing.

Materials:

• Dry erase boards
• Dry erase markers
• Oreos
• Paper
• Pencil

Procedure:

1. Give students a brief introduction and discuss expectations for today’s lesson.
2. Review that an adjective is a word that describes a noun.
3. Tell students that today we will be using our five senses to list adjectives that describe an Oreo.  We want to try and stay away from words like “good”.
4. Discuss White board expectations and hand out materials and Oreos.
5. Students will independently create a list of adjectives to describe their Oreo.
6. Students will work with a partner to share their list of adjectives.
7. Share adjective lists with the class.
8. Now students should take some time to write a paragraph using their list of adjectives to describe how they would eat an Oreo and what it would taste like.  Give a few example sentences.

Assessment: Share paragraphs with the class.  Depending on the time left either call on volunteers or let everyone read.  Collect.