Georgia 2.L.GC.1.18

ELA2nd GradeGrammar, Usage, & Mechanics

The Standard

Mechanics: Use apostrophes to form contractions and singular possessive nouns. (Continue)

Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Language (L) · Grammar Conventions

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students combine two words into shorter forms and place the apostrophe where letters were removed. They also show that one person, animal, place, or thing owns something, as in “Ava’s pencil.”
What Mastery Looks Like: Students correctly write common forms such as “can’t,” “she’s,” “the bird’s nest,” and “Luis’s book.” They can explain whether the apostrophe replaces letters or shows that one person, animal, or thing owns something.
Common Misconceptions: Students may add apostrophes to regular plurals, such as “three cat’s.” They may place the mark after the noun or confuse possessives like “its” with contractions like “it’s.”
How to Assess It: Exit ticket: Rewrite and label each phrase: “do not,” “Mia’s hat,” “she is,” and “the dog’s tail.”

Lesson moves

Give pairs word cards and apostrophe tiles, then have students build contractions and ownership phrases such as “is not” and “the cat’s bowl.”
Ask students to write two sentences about a pet, one with a contraction and one showing something the pet owns.
Play Apostrophe Sort by having teams place phrase cards under “missing letters,” “belongs to one,” or “no apostrophe.”
Display signs, menus, or advertisements and have students find apostrophes, then explain what each apostrophe is doing.

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