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Adjective Alley

Bulletin Boards are best when they allow the students to become actively involved in their construction. A new concept, or a review of an old one, takes on a whole new meaning when the students are "building" the foundation leading toward understanding. Below is a great example of how students may become more involved in their study of Adjectives.

1. Construct a "road" made out of black construction paper or bulletin board background paper. Cut out small yellow "lines" to paste in the middle of the road. (It is best, and more creative, if your road is not just straight - add some curves!) Staple this straight across the middle of your bulletin board below the heading "Adjective Alley".

2. Along the "alley", place buildings that will represent adjectives for people, places and things. Label each building as such.

3. Cut out pictures that represent people, places, and things from a magazine and place the pictures on each corresponding building.

4. In groups, have students generate appropriate adjectives for their assigned "building". The groups will write these adjectives on pieces of construction paper. Paste the adjectives on the buildings.

5. Construct road signs using the shape of real road signs which would be familiar to the students. On these signs, put the terms "what kind", "which one" and "how many". This will show the students what questions adjectives answer.

6. You must have a stoplight at the end of your "road"! Put the words "a", "an", and "the" on one of each of the three colors on your stoplight. This will represent the articles.