Comparatives & Superlatives
Your child can compare using the right word form. Big becomes bigger and biggest; good becomes better and best.
In curriculum terms
Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, choosing correctly between them
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How to tell they’ve got it
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If your child is comparing three things — like three books they've read — can they correctly say one is "good", another is "better", and the best one is "the best"?
Where this sits on the map
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1). No NSW K–6 outcome code matched (v0.1). No Victorian Curriculum 2.0 code matched (v0.1).