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Grade 3 Reading & Writing · World 5: Sentence Bridge · Level 40
Comparing and Describing
Taller, tallest, more carefully, better, best, and adding adjectives and adverbs that make a sentence precise.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 40
- Describing words can compare. To compare two things, add e r: The giraffe is taller than the zebra.
- To compare three or more, add e s t: The giraffe is the tallest animal at the zoo.
- Long words use more and most: more beautiful, most colorful. And some words change completely: good, better, best. Bad, worse, worst.
- Never use both: more taller and most fastest are mistakes.
- Adjectives and adverbs add details that help readers picture things: The scruffy brown dog raced across the muddy yard.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- 3.L.GC.1.28 — Grammar: Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs. (Continue)
- 3.L.GC.2.d — Elaborate on ideas and information, using adjectives and adverbs when incorporating details and descriptions to convey precise meaning. (C)