Is this the easiest or hardest exercise for practicing superlatives and comparatives? Your class can find out if it's easier or harder than what they've done before by changing the underlined adjectives into comparatives or superlatives, depending on the context clues.

Concepts

comparatives, superlatives, superlative adjectives, comparative adjectives, parts of speech, context clues

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use this as a homework assignment, warm-up exercise, or assessment
• Invite pupils to work with partners to complete the sentences

Classroom Considerations

• The lines provided for writing in answers are somewhat narrow; you may wish to create a class set of worksheets, but have individuals write their revised sentences on separate sheets of paper
• Learners should have some prior knowledge on adjectives, superlatives, and comparatives before the exercise

Pros

• Includes an answer key

Cons

• None

Common Core

L.3.1.a L.3.1.g L.4.1.a L.5.1.a