Transcript Grammar Slides

Grammar
Monday
• Yellow sunflowers invaded my little
garden.
• They took over and grew taller than my
sweet corn.
• Now they are the tallest plants in my little
garden!
which words are adjectives?
Adjectives and Comparisons
• Adjectives describe, or tell about, nouns.
• Adjectives can tell about the color, size, or
shape of something. They can describe
how something sounds, feels, looks,
tastes, or smells.
What words tell about color and size in this sentence:
Yellow sunflowers invaded my little garden.
Adjectives and Comparisons
• Adjectives can also compare 2 things.
• To compare 2 things, add –er to 1 syllable
adjectives (fast – faster, nice – nicer).
“They took over and grew taller than my sweet
corn.”
The word, “than”, usually is used when you
compare 2 things. (My hat is bigger than yours.)
Adjectives and Comparisons
• Adjectives can also compare more than 2 things.
• To compare 3 or more things, add –est to 1
syllable adjectives (fast – fastest, nice – nicest).
Now they are the tallest plants in my little garden!
• Keep using –er to compare the other 2 things.
• (I am bigger than my little brother, but my dad is
the biggest of us all.)
Adjectives and Comparisons
• If an adjective is a long word use the words
more/less, and most/least.
Adjective
Compare 2
things
Compare
more than 2
things
large
larger
largest
frightening
more
frightening
most
frightening
Closure
• Tell a neighbor – how do we compare 2
things with an adjective? (ex. slow)
• Tell a neighbor – how do we compare 3 or
more things with an adjective? (ex. rich)
• How do we compare when we use long
adjectives? (ex. disgusting)
Tuesday
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Four leaves are growing on the vine.
A tree has many leaves.
Mia has more plants than Kyle.
There is less water in the cup than in the
bucket.
which words are adjectives?
Adjectives and Comparisons
• Adjectives can be number words that describe
how many.
Four leaves are growing on the vine.
• When you don’t know how many, you can use
words like: “many”, “several”, “some”, and “few.”
A tree has many leaves.
Adjectives and Comparisons
• Some adjectives tell how much there is of
something when you are comparing two things.
• The words, “more” and “less” are used most
often to do this.
Mia has more plants than Kyle.
• You use the adjectives, “most” and “least” when
comparing more than two things.
I have the least students of all the reading groups.
Closure
• Find something in the room or on
yourselves to compare each other with.
• (ex. how many pencils, how tall, how clean
is your white board…)