Lesson 1.8: Plurals & Possessives Digital Package

$19.99

Easy-to-use, rigorous curriculum for teaching your gifted learners how to form plurals and possessives.

Included in this package:

✔️ 1 fun video lesson: Ready to share with your student(s) with no additional setup
✔️ 4 fun and age-appropriate assignments to practice and build on the skill: Assign using SeeSaw or use as printouts
✔️ 1 end-of-lesson quiz: Automatic grading for multiple-choice questions and an easy-to-grade editing challenge.
✔️ Robust teacher’s guide: Includes detailed tips and tricks for teaching each activity, answer keys, scoring recommendations, and more.

Suitable for one-on-one use or small group or classroom settings. Our teacher guide gives you tips and support for each method.

When you purchase this lesson, you’ll receive an email with links to all of the above.

Easy-to-use, rigorous curriculum for teaching your gifted learners how to form plurals and possessives.

Included in this package:

✔️ 1 fun video lesson: Ready to share with your student(s) with no additional setup
✔️ 4 fun and age-appropriate assignments to practice and build on the skill: Assign using SeeSaw or use as printouts
✔️ 1 end-of-lesson quiz: Automatic grading for multiple-choice questions and an easy-to-grade editing challenge.
✔️ Robust teacher’s guide: Includes detailed tips and tricks for teaching each activity, answer keys, scoring recommendations, and more.

Suitable for one-on-one use or small group or classroom settings. Our teacher guide gives you tips and support for each method.

When you purchase this lesson, you’ll receive an email with links to all of the above.

Resources included in your purchases:

  • Video lesson

  • Practice 1.8.1: How do you write plural and possessive words?

  • Practice 1.8.2: Possessives in action

  • Practice 1.8.3: Sentences with plurals and possessives

  • Practice 1.8.4: The subtlety of plural & possessive choices

  • Quiz 1.8.5: Plurals & Possessives

  • Teacher Guide

  • Robust support from June Writers Academy

Skills in focus:

  • Plurals

  • Common nouns

    • Default —> add -s

    • Ends in a vowel + y —> add -s

    • Ends in a consonant + y —> remove the y and add -ies

    • Ends in a consonant + o —> add -es*

    • Ends in s, x, ch, sh, h, or z —> add -es*

    • Ends in f or fe —> remove the f/fe and add -ves*

    • * Memorize words that defy the rules above

  • Proper nouns

    • Same rules as above except …

    • End in -y —> add -s

  • Possessives

    • Common nouns

  • Singular and doesn’t end in -ess —> add ’s

  • Plural and doesn’t end in -s —> add ’s

  • Plural and ends in -s —> add ’

  • Proper nouns

    • Singular words —> add ’s

    • Plural —> add ’

  • Awkward Sentences. Avoid words that sound awkward by rewriting the sentence to a simpler one.

  • Meaning. Whatever you do, be thoughtful about how your choices impact the meaning of your text.

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