Georgia 2.L.GC.1.19
The Standard
Grammar: Form and use irregular plural nouns. (Continue)
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Language (L) · Grammar Conventions
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students recognize nouns that change spelling instead of taking the usual -s or -es ending when naming more than one. They use forms such as children, feet, mice, teeth, geese, men, and women in speech and writing.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given singular nouns in sentences, students supply correct forms without writing childs, foots, or mouses. They revise sentences so nouns agree with clue words such as one, two, many, and several.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often add -s to every noun, producing forms such as childs, foots, and mouses. Some confuse plural endings with possessive apostrophes. Others know a word pair alone but write errors such as two child in sentences.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Complete “One child lost one tooth. Two ___ lost two ___.” Then write a sentence using the plural of mouse.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs of singular and plural noun cards, then have students match child to children, mouse to mice, and tooth to teeth.
Ask students to explain why “three mouses” sounds wrong, then write a corrected sentence and identify the clue word.
Play Irregular Plural Bingo by calling singular nouns while students cover the matching plural forms on their boards.
Display a family or class photo, and have students write captions using one child, several children, one man, and two men.
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