CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.1g
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
What This Standard Means
Students need to compare people, places, things, and actions using words like taller, fastest, more carefully, and most brightly. They also need to know when the describing word modifies a noun, like louder drum, or a verb, like sings more loudly.
Mastery looks like choosing the right form in speech and writing, then explaining what is being compared. Students often overuse more with words that already take -er, like more faster, or mix adjectives and adverbs, like runs quick instead of runs quickly.
Ways to Teach It
- Give pairs picture cards and word cards, then have them build three comparison sentences using -er, -est, more, and most.
- Ask students to write about two classroom objects and one classroom action using one comparative and one superlative form.
- Use four fill-in-the-blank sentences and have students circle whether the missing word describes a noun or a verb.
- Have students compare sports scores, weather reports, or race times using faster, fastest, more slowly, and most carefully.
Plan a Lesson for CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.1g
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Related Standards
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.4.1a
Use relative pronouns (who, whose, whom, which, that) and relative adverbs (where, when, why).
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1.1f
Use frequently occurring adjectives.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.4.1d
Order adjectives within sentences according to conventional patterns (e.g., a small red bag rather than a red small bag).
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.1e
Use adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.