Describe the Picture

Year 2 EnglishAdjectives3 pages

About this worksheet

Adjectives for Year 2 as a writing task, over three pages. Page 1 has a word bank in four groups, Colour, Size, Feel and Sound. Pupils choose two adjectives for each of six pictures: a hedgehog, a sun, a castle, an ice cream, a lion and a rainbow. Page 2 asks them to pick two pictures and write a sentence for each using both adjectives. The model sentence is The spiky, little hedgehog curled up. The key lists sample adjectives for all six pictures. It follows England National Curriculum grammar.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

โ€œExpanded noun phrases to describe and specify [for example, the blue butterfly]โ€

Pupils build phrases such as the spiky, little hedgehog by choosing two adjectives for each picture and using both in a sentence.

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

โ€œUse and understand the grammatical terminology in English Appendix 2 in discussing their writing.โ€

The word bank sorts adjectives by colour, size, feel and sound, which gives pupils words to talk about how they describe a noun.

What's inside this worksheet

Word Bank and Picture Boxes

Twenty adjectives in four groups, from brown and grey to roaring and silent. Six picture boxes each have two lines for the adjectives pupils choose.

Write Your Sentences

A model sentence in a box, then two spaces to name a picture and four lines under each for a sentence that uses both adjectives.

How teachers use it

Picture talk

Show the lion and collect adjectives aloud before anyone writes. Keep a list on the board, then point pupils to the Sound group in the bank.

Early finishers

Pupils who finish add one word of their own to each group in the bank, such as prickly or rumbling.

Marking page 2

Mark against one rule. Both adjectives appear, and the sentence has a capital letter and a full stop.

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