ESL Reading List: Adjectives and Adverbs

Presents a series of comparisons, such as "Big," "Not so Big" and "Tasty," "Not so Tasty" successive pages.

Children see a variety of animals, each one a different color, and a teacher looking at them.

Kenya has a hard time choosing her favorite describing word, but finally picks a word that encompasses all her favorite things.

On a day when everything goes wrong for him, Alexander is consoled by the thought that other people have bad days too.

A rhyming story of Silly Sally, who makes many friends as she travels to town--backwards and upside down.

The foolish tortoise wants to move faster, so he decides to leave his heavy shell behind. But then he's too scared to walk anywhere! After some scary encounters, he retraces his steps, climbs back into his home, and bids the world a cheerful 'Good night'.

Vashti believes that she cannot draw, but her art teacher's encouragement leads her to change her mind.

Introduces young children to the language of comparison, synonyms, and antonyms, and features pictures of animals in all shapes and sizes.

Full-color photographs and simple text provide a brief introduction to adjectives as parts of speech.

An introduction to adjectives and how they help with descriptions.

Rhyming text and illustrations of comical cats present numerous examples of adjectives, from "hairy, scary, cool, and ordinary" to "tan and tall," "funny, frisky, smooth, and small."

Rhyming text and illustrations present numerous examples of adverbs and their functions.

If you were an adjective, you could be spectacular, brilliant, dazzling, or daring. You could describe how something feels, sounds or behaves.

If you were an adverb, you would often end in ly. You could tell people how things happen, how often things happen and when things happen.

An examination of the rules behind English grammar, focusing on the components known as adjectives and prepositions, which modify and help describe the relationships between words in sentences.

An examination of the rules behind English grammar, focusing on the components known as verbs and adverbs, which name and describe the action or state of being necessary to compose sentences.