All week long, our word work topic before our writing lessons was plural nouns. We had created anchor charts, made lists, practiced on the white board, and a few other "paper" activities, but I just felt like my students were not getting it!
Since I work with ELL students, I definitely needed a more hands-on approach, so I created this lesson, and VIOLA! They finally got it! It was a simple lesson, but adding the more creative, hands-on approach worked wonders!
Here is what we did:
- Have students choose a singular noun card. ( I used the cute chevron ones available in the pack above)
- Students write their singular noun on the word strip ( I found these cute word strips at Dollar tree!)
- Have students fold over the strip to the letter before you add the s or es, or to the letter that changes for the y words or rulebreakers
You can download the cute cards and directions by clicking here.
Thanks for sharing this! I'm going to be teaching this rule soon and the cards/wordstrips will be the perfect activity to go with it. :)
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Thanks! I think I originally saw something similiar on pinterest. I love finding simple ideas that actually work. I also did it with past tense verbs and irregular past tense verbs and it works well!
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