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“I Can” Common Core! 1st Grade Language
Support first graders with developing their basic language skills using this Common Core checklist. With each standard rewritten as a positive I can statement, students are encouraged to work hard toward reaching these clear...
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Word Sorts And Story Mapping
Fourth graders engage in a lesson that covers the concept of using a storymap to increase reading comprehension. They possess the prior knowledge of parts of speech from previous lessons. Students fill in the blank storymap while working...
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Find the Error 52
In this grammar worksheet, learners read an advertisement for a Christmas activity set. Students locate a mistake either in apostrophes, articles, singular/plurals, or spelling.
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Find the Error 53
For this grammar worksheet, students read a paragraph about a sit-com. Students locate mistakes in apostrophes, articles, singular/plurals, and spelling.
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Find the Error: Apostrophe
Your emerging editors review a newspaper advertisement and hunt for the single grammatical error included. They identify what kind of mistake it is and circle that from a list of six possibilities. Grammatical errors may include:...
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Wacky Web Tales
Students study the parts of speech and then review them. They identify each part of speech and place them on a tree map. Then they visit a website to create a "Wacky Web Tale" using information from the tree map. They print their tales...
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Whose Voice Do I Hear?
Fifth graders examine the power of voice in writing by completing a story using words following a particular voice. They take simple nursery rhymes, then attempt to put their own voice to a revised version. An interesting lesson on writing!
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Apostrophes
In this apostrophes worksheet, learners complete the correct version of contractions with the apostrophe in the appropriate spot to complete the sentences. Students complete 7 problems.
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The End
Students listen as the teacher reads a story. Pictures are displayed as the teacher reads the story. Students jot down ideas for the story ending, and create an illustration to compliment their story. Student story endings and...
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Other Pronoun Recognition Practice
In this pronoun recognition worksheet, students read about pronouns other than personal, then complete an exercise, writing verbs that agree with indefinite pronouns in sentences.
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“I Can” Common Core! 3rd Grade Language
Support third graders with developing their language skills using this Common Core checklist. With each standard written as an I can statement, children are given clear learning goals to work toward throughout the year.
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Publishing: A Persuasive Essay
Third graders are given an opportunity to create a visual to accompany their presentations of their persuasive essays. They may use the computer or other media as resources.
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Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Bracken Business Communications: Plurals & Possessives[pdf]
This is the PDF article "Bracken Business Communications: Plurals and Possessives" expaining the rules and exceptions for forming plural and possessive nouns and providing examples of each.
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Parts of Speech: Plural and Possessive Nouns
A tutorial explaining the proper apostrophe use of singular and plural possessive nouns followed by a twenty-question exercise to practice this skill.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Possessive Forms
As you learn possessive forms, you will also learn about gerunds, present participles, compound nouns and more. This is a very complete resource tool for this subject.
Other
K12 Reader: Possessive Nouns
Take a look at examples of possessive nouns, both singular and plural.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: 2nd Grade Lesson Plans for Forming Possessives
This article focuses on teaching 2nd graders to form possessive. It provides two complete lesson plans with activities for teaching them how to form possessives.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Possessives and Irregular Plurals
This quiz asks students to type in the correct spelling of the plural or possessive as directed and to capitalize any proper nouns. Links are provided to a quiz list, tutorials for plurals and possessives, and the "Guide to Grammar and...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Abstract Nouns
The composition of a noun is more than just a person, place or thing. Use this resource to study examples of nouns and their many uses.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Match It: Sentence Game: Plurals and Possessives
Fill in the blanks in seven sentences by matching the plural or possessive noun that completes each sentence.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Advanced (Plural) Possession
Possessive plurals have a complicated relationship with apostrophes, but this exercise is here to help you understand it!
Quia
Quia: Singular and Plural Possessive Nouns
This matching game asks students to match singular and possessive nouns with their plural forms. Java is required.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Apostrophes and Possession
Six slides introducing apostrophes and how they can be used properly with singular and plural nouns to show possession.
Other
Possessives
This article contains rules about the correct way to incorporate possessives into college writing. A link with downloadable practice exercises is included at the end of the lesson.