CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.1g

ELA3rd GradeConventions of Standard English

The Standard

Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.

Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students form words that compare two things and words that identify the highest or lowest among three or more. They choose adjective forms for nouns and adverb forms for actions.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students correctly use forms such as taller, tallest, more carefully, and most carefully. They choose an adjective to describe a noun and an adverb to describe an action.
Common Misconceptions: Students may use a superlative when comparing only two things, such as “the fastest of the two.” They may also write forms like “more faster” or use an adjective for an action, as in “She ran quick.”
How to Assess It: Give this exit ticket: “Mia runs ___ than Lee. Of all three runners, Ana runs the ___.” Students fill in the blanks and explain their choices.

Lesson moves

Give groups three pencils to measure, then have them label each with long, longer, or longest and explain their choices.
Ask students to write two sentences comparing classmates’ imaginary pets, using one comparative adjective and one superlative adverb.
Play a sorting relay with word cards such as faster, fastest, louder, and loudest under headings for two or three comparisons.
Use weather data from three cities, then write comparisons such as warmer, warmest, more quickly, or most quickly.

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