1st Grade Adjectives Worksheets

First graders should build on kindergarten adjective awareness to use adjectives intentionally in their writing and identify them in sentences. CCSS L.1.1f requires first graders to use frequently occurring adjectives, and L.1.1j expects them to produce and expand simple and compound sentences using adjectives. Students should understand that adjectives describe nouns and answer questions like what kind, which one, and how many. They should learn adjective categories including size (tiny, enormous), shape (round, flat), color, number, texture (smooth, bumpy), temperature (hot, freezing), and feeling (excited, nervous). Comparative adjectives (bigger, fastest) are introduced informally. Worksheets that ask children to add adjectives to plain sentences (the dog becomes the fluffy brown dog) develop the sentence expansion skills that strengthen writing. First graders should also begin recognizing adjectives in their reading, noticing how authors use descriptive words to paint pictures for readers and make stories more engaging and vivid.