Sunday, January 20, 2013

Plural Nouns-They Finally Got It!

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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: 
  1. Have students choose a singular noun card.  ( I used the cute chevron ones available in the pack above)
  2. Students write their singular noun on the word strip ( I found these cute word strips at Dollar tree!)
  3. 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
Easy Peasy, and each student created five in about 10 minutes! 

 
 
You can download the cute cards and directions by clicking here.
 

2 comments:

  1. 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. :)
    ~Melissa
    Teacher Treasure Hunter

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  2. 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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