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Grade 4 Reading & Writing · World 5: Sentence Harbor · Level 39
Comparing and Elaborating
-er/-est versus more/most, irregular good, better, best, well, badly, worse, worst; adding adjectives and adverbs that help a reader picture it.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 39
- Adjectives and adverbs can compare. Comparing two things? Add e r, or use more. This wave is taller than the last one.
- Comparing three or more? Add e s t, or use most. The blue whale is the biggest animal on Earth.
- Long words, and adverbs ending in l y, use more and most: more beautiful, most carefully. Never more taller!
- Some are irregular. Good and well become better and best. Bad and badly become worse and worst.
- Adjectives and adverbs also help a reader picture it. The dog ran is plain. The muddy puppy raced wildly across the beach paints a picture!
- Choose words that show how it looks, sounds, and moves. Skip empty words like a lot, stuff, and thing.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- 4.L.GC.1.28 — Grammar: Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs. (Master)
- 4.L.GC.2.d — Elaborate on ideas and information, using adjectives and adverbs when incorporating details and descriptions to convey precise meaning and engage audiences. (C)