Georgia 3.L.GC.1.37
The Standard
Mechanics: Use apostrophes to form plural possessive nouns. (Introduce)
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 show that something belongs to more than one person, animal, or thing. They place the apostrophe after the s in regular plurals and add apostrophe-s to irregular plurals.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can identify when more than one person, animal, or thing owns something. They write the players' uniforms for regular plurals and the children's games for irregular plurals. They place each apostrophe correctly without changing the noun's meaning.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may put the apostrophe before the final s, as if only one owner is involved. They may use an apostrophe to make any noun plural. They may also write childrens' instead of children's because they overlook irregular plurals.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Rewrite “the backpacks belonging to the students” and “the books belonging to the children” as possessive phrases. Circle each apostrophe.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs owner cards and object cards, then have them build phrases such as the players' jerseys with letter tiles and apostrophe tiles.
Ask students to explain how the apostrophe changes meaning in the dog's bowls and the dogs' bowls, then write one matching pair.
Play Apostrophe Sort: students place phrase cards under singular owner, regular plural owner, or irregular plural owner, then correct misplaced marks.
Have students label shared classroom items, such as the teachers' supplies or the children's artwork, using plural possessive phrases.
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