Writing: Informative Writing Project

Learners can:

• identify and use comparative and superlative adjectives

• identify the topic for the informative writing project

Adjectives are words that describe nouns. Remember that a noun is a person, place, thing, or idea.

Read the sentence.

• My dog, Oliver, is small.

In the sentence, the word “dog" is the noun, and the word “small" is the adjective.

Adjectives Describe Nouns

Comparative adjectives are used to compare two nouns.

The suffix ending -er is usually added to an adjective to make it a comparative adjective.

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Comparative Adjectives

Superlative adjectives are used to compare two or more nouns.

The suffix ending -est is usually added to an adjective to make it superlative.

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Superlative Adjectives

Adjective Rules

There are rules to remember when changing adjectives to the comparative or superlative form of the word.

Video on page 4 in edio

Open your Writing Activity Book to page 32.

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Daily Grammar

This is Liam. Today, he is starting his informative writing project. He has been reading A Material World.

His teacher has asked him to choose a topic and write about it to inform others.

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Meet Liam

​Liam's teacher has given him the choice of three topics to write about.

• matter

• the four elements

• the three states of matter

​Now that Liam has chosen a topic, he is ready to brainstorm. He thinks about what he knows about his topic.

He chooses a brainstorming strategy and writes down what he knows about his topic.

Drafting an Introduction

An introduction is the first thing a reader will see. A strong introduction gets the reader interested and introduces the topic.

You can use the facts and ideas you have brainstormed to help you draft an introduction. Remember that a draft is about getting your ideas on paper. You can add or change parts of it later.

Now that you have seen Liam choose a topic, think about which of the following topics you feel confident writing about.

• matter

• the four elements

• the three states of matter

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Writing Activity Book Page 33