NGLS Standards - Language for ELA and Literacy Worksheets
We’ve created some helpful parts of speech anchor chart resources below. Parts of speech allow us to categorize words based on their function in a sentence, like nouns, verbs, adjectives, and more. Understanding the difference between these terms can enhance language skills related to both reading, writing, and overall vocabulary…
Here you’ll find our cause and effect anchor chart resources! Across many genres, understanding the connections between actions and consequences is an important part of unlocking the details of a text’s organizations and the implications of an event or other force (“cause”). Additionally, 21st century learners must be especially attuned…
Welcome to our figurative language anchor chart resources! Whether you’re a learner or a teacher, the realm of figurative language brings a wonderful and challenging journey that enhances both reading comprehension and writing prowess. Figurative language adds depth and vividness to the texts we read and write. The different types…
Proper adjectives are a unique group of adjectives that are derived from proper nouns, which are the names of specific people, places, or things. Proper adjectives can be spotted easily because they start with a capital letter, just like proper nouns. Let’s see how they look and sound in our…
It’s your turn to learn about possessive adjectives and practice your skills with our possessive adjectives worksheets! Possessive adjectives show ownership or possession and to whom something belongs. These adjectives are always placed before a noun. Possessive adjectives include: “my,” “your,” “his,” “her,” “its,” “our,” and “their.” For example, if…
Descriptive adjectives are words that describe or give more information about a person, place, thing, or idea. They make writing more interesting and engaging by adding details that illuminate what is being described. Descriptive adjectives can be positive, negative, comparative, superlative, and more. Learning about and implementing descriptive adjectives in…
Welcome to our page for demonstrative adjectives worksheets! Demonstrative adjectives allow communicators to point out and identify specific things. They are words that describe and indicate which person, place, or thing we are talking about, relative to time or space. These special adjectives bring clarity to our sentences by identifying…
Compound adjectives can make writing more descriptive, colorful, and engaging. They can serve as a mighty team when describing characters, objects, or places in stories. For example, “wide-eyed,” “rainbow-colored,” and “ill-fated” are all compound adjectives. Compound adjectives are often seen when they appear as an adjective paired with a noun,…
Adjective phrases can be quite fun to craft! Here, you’ll learn about this type of phrase along as well as find a variety of adjective phrases worksheets. But first, what are adjective phrases? Adjective phrases are groups of words that work together to describe a noun in a sentence. These…
These adjectives are fun! Predicate adjectives are adjectives that appear after linking verbs like “am,” “be,” “being,” “become,” “seem/s,” “is,” “are,” “was,” or “were.” These adjectives describe the subject of a sentence. For example, in the sentence “The flower is beautiful,” the word “beautiful” is a predicate adjective because it…