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Various types of cuts depend on cards.
These charts are part of a curriculum for a 3-year cycle.
Printed on premium thick card stock. May be used unlaminated or laminated in a homeschool environment.

This part of the curriculum curriculum provides a structured and engaging approach to understanding adjectives and their vital role in enhancing language and clarity in writing. Through methodical instruction, interactive analysis, and rich contextual examples, learners explore the wide range of adjectives, gaining proficiency in descriptive and limiting categories and understanding their grammatical nuances.

The curriculum systematically introduces students to ten distinct types of adjectives, clearly divided into two broad categories:

Descriptive Adjectives:

Degree Adjectives: Focus on expressing varying intensities using positive, comparative, and superlative forms. Students learn to use adjectives to accurately reflect the degree of qualities.
Proper Adjectives: Derived from proper nouns, these adjectives emphasize specificity, proper capitalization, and contextual accuracy (e.g., Spanish food, Victorian style).

Limiting Adjectives:

Possessive: Indicate ownership (her book, their house).
Articles: Definite (the) and indefinite (a, an), essential in specifying and generalizing nouns.
Interrogative: Used to form questions and specify information (which, whose).
Demonstrative: Clearly indicate particular items or individuals (this, that, these, those).
Numerical: Provide exact numeric information (one, two, first, second).
Indefinite: Refer to nonspecific quantities (some, many, few).

Curriculum Highlights and Features:

Comprehensive Classification Exercises: Students engage in sorting tasks and categorization activities, solidifying their understanding through visual and hands-on interactions.
Sentence Analysis and Diagramming: Using grammar symbols, learners gain deeper insight into sentence structure, effectively linking adjectives to the nouns they modify.
Comparative and Superlative Forms: Clear instruction and extensive practice using both regular (big, bigger, biggest) and irregular (good, better, best) adjective forms, enhancing descriptive precision in communication.
Practical Usage Activities: Contextual practice through writing tasks like descriptive paragraphs, sentence rewriting, and targeted exercises on correct adjective placement.
Advanced Grammar Skills: Exploration of predicate adjectives (subjective complements), objective complements, compound adjectives, and their grammatical roles within complex and compound-complex sentence structures.
Interactive Concept Mapping: Graphic organizers help students visualize relationships between adjective types, improving retention and facilitating complex concept mastery.

9-12 Grammar charts are sold separately. (HMS-6003CH)

RESOURCES

Grammar Curriculum Level 9-12 Answer Key Combined Key

Grammar Curriculum Level 9-12 Additional Subjunctive Mood Cards

Grammar Curriculum Level 9-12 Teacher's Notes

Look at our Upper Elementary Language Flow Chart to see how this work fits in with the traditional Montessori curriculum.

STANDARDS
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