Georgia 3.L.GC.1.28

ELA3rd GradeGrammar, Usage, & Mechanics

The Standard

Grammar: Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs. (Continue)

Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Language (L) · Grammar Conventions

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students compare two people, objects, or actions, then rank one within a group of three or more. They choose forms such as -er, -est, more, most, better, and best.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students correctly use forms such as taller, tallest, more carefully, and most carefully. They also use irregular forms such as better and best without combining forms.
Common Misconceptions: Students may use a superlative when comparing only two things. They may create forms such as “more faster” or “goodest.” They may also confuse adjectives that describe nouns with adverbs that describe actions.
How to Assess It: Give students three pictures of animals moving at different speeds. Ask them to write one sentence comparing two animals and one sentence ranking all three.

Lesson moves

Give pairs and trios of classroom objects to measure, then have students write comparison sentences using longer, shorter, longest, and shortest.
Ask students to explain when they would use faster instead of fastest, then write one example of each.
Play a sentence sort with adjective and adverb cards, placing comparative forms under “two” and superlative forms under “three or more.”
Compare local weather reports from three days, then write sentences using warmer, coldest, more quickly, or most slowly.

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