Ordering Adjectives - Differentiated Activity

Help students master the tricky but tasty world of ordering adjectives with this engaging and supportive grammar resource, designed especially for primary learners!

This teacher resource includes two structured activities that guide students to describe nouns — particularly foods — using the correct adjective order: quantity, opinion, size, age, colour, classifier, and purpose.

Activity 1: Think Like a Describer

Students are given a noun (e.g. cupcake) and prompted with guiding questions to help them generate appropriate adjectives for each part of the sequence. An example is provided to model the process, along with a template to scaffold their own descriptions.

Activity 2: Food Slips and Adjective Tables

Includes 22 pre-filled food noun slips (e.g. pizza, apple, cookie) ready to cut and use. For each, students complete a table using the correct order of adjectives before crafting a full descriptive sentence. Also included are blank slips for students to bring their own creativity to the table, choosing a noun of their choice and working through the structure.

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