Georgia 3.L.GC.1.31
The Standard
Grammar: Use relative pronouns and relative adverbs. (Introduce)
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Language (L) · Grammar Conventions
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students connect a noun to added information with words such as who, whose, which, that, where, when, and why. They explain which person, thing, place, time, or reason the added words describe.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students choose a word that clearly matches the person, place, time, thing, or reason being described. They can combine two ideas into a complete sentence, such as “The park where we played has a pond.”
Common Misconceptions
- Students may use who for places or which for people. They may treat who, where, and when only as question words. They may also create fragments when adding a describing clause.
How to Assess It
- Give students two sentences: “The librarian helped me. She reads aloud on Fridays.” Ask them to combine the sentences using who.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs sentence strips and word cards labeled who, whose, which, that, where, when, and why, then have them build complete sentences.
Ask students to write three clues about a classroom object using which or that, then let classmates guess the object.
Play sentence match by pairing noun cards with describing clauses, then award points for choosing the correct connecting word.
Use a school map and event calendar to write sentences describing where activities happen and when events occur.
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