Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

Long u soundHomophones

Week 6

WORKING WITH WORDS

This week’s WWWs are:1.pretty

2.prettier

3.prettiest

4.two

5.community

Can you put this week’s word in ABC

order?1.community

2.prettier

3.prettiest

4.pretty

5.two

What is this week’s

homophone?

two

What homophones go with two?

too

and

to

Put the correct homophone in each sentence.

• I want (to, two, too) go outside today.• We need (to, two, too) pieces of paper.• I need to walk home, (to, two, too).• Will you please take this (to, two, too)

your mom?• I think the park is (to, two, too) blocks

away.

What do you know about…

pretty

prettier

prettiest

These words are called

COMPARATIVE and

SUPERLATIVE

You use the comparative

form (-er) when you

are comparing two things.

ComparativeThis horse is prettier

than that one.

Your dog is smarter than my dog.

Our house is bigger than their house.

You use the superlative

form

(-est) when you are comparing more than two

things. It is super. It is the

best.

SuperlativeThat is the prettiest

horse of all.

Your dog is the smartest dog I have

ever seen.

Our house is the biggest on the

block.

Comparative and Superlative games and activities

http://www.learnenglish.de/Games/Adjectives/CompSup.htm

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/compsup.html

http://www.stclaresenglish.net/langprac/adcomsup.htm

What sound are we studying this week?

LONG U

What WWW has this sound?

community

Which of these words has the long u sound?

unicorn

undercover

unbelievable

unicycle

unique

Good Job!You are a smart class.

You are smarter than you were yesterday.

You can be the smartest class ever.