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Kai Picks a Reading Chair

Grade 1 adjectives practice: read a furniture store story, find describing words, and use them to tell about things.

Grade 1ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toL.1.1.f

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  • 1 Common Core standard
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  • 9 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 1
Subject
ELA
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students find describing words that tell about things in a story.
  • Students choose describing words that fit a sentence.
  • Students write a sentence that uses two describing words.

How to use

Read the story together and point to each describing word. Then let students finish the questions on their own.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.1.1.f

Use frequently occurring adjectives.

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Kai Picks a Reading Chair

Find and use describing words.

Read the story

Read the story about Kai and his dad.

A Chair for Reading

1Kai and his dad went to a bright furniture store. They wanted a new chair for reading.

2Dad liked a brown chair. It was wide and very soft. "It feels like a cloud," Dad said.

3Kai liked a yellow chair with a tall back. It had a little shelf on one side for books.

4Ms. Park worked at the store. "We have a chair that is yellow, wide, and soft," she said. She showed them a big, fluffy chair. Kai and Dad sat in it together. "This is the one!" they said.

Describing words in the story

Describing words tell how something looks, feels, or seems. Use the story to answer.

1.
Read paragraph 2. Which word describes the chair Dad liked?
  • A. liked
  • B. brown
  • C. chair
  • D. feels
2.
Read this sentence from paragraph 4. Underline the two describing words.

Sheshowedthemabig,fluffychair.

3.
Match each thing from the story to the word that describes it.
  1. the store
  2. the first chair Dad liked
  3. the back of Kai's chair
  4. the shelf for books
  1. A. little
  2. B. bright
  3. C. tall
  4. D. brown
4.
Read paragraph 4. Write the describing word that is missing from what Ms. Park says.

"We have a chair that is yellow, wide, and  ," she said.

5.
Is each word a describing word? Sort the words.
chairsoftyellowsatstorewidebookstall
Describing wordNot a describing word

Use describing words

Choose describing words that fit. Then write your own sentence.

6.
Use the word bank. Write the describing word that fits each sentence. Use each word one time.
Word bank: empty · heavy · round · striped

The rug has red and white lines. The rug is  .
The table has no corners. The table is  .
Dad cannot lift the desk. The desk is  .
The box has nothing in it. The box is  .

7.
Kai wants to tell how the new lamp looks. Which sentence should he write?
  • A. The lamp is next to the bed.
  • B. Ms. Park sold Dad the lamp.
  • C. The lamp is tall and gold.
  • D. Kai turns the lamp on.
8.
Which describing word fits best? "The couch is so ____ that four people can sit on it."
  • A. long
  • B. tiny
  • C. short
9.
Write one sentence about a chair or a bed in your home. Use two describing words.

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