Kentucky Reading and Writing L.3.2.d
The Standard
- L.3.2
- When writing:
Use possessives.
Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Conventions of General American English
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students show who owns something in their writing. They use apostrophes with possessive nouns and use words such as her and its without apostrophes.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can write the girl's coat, the girls' coats, and the children's coats for different owners. They use its for ownership and it's to mean it is.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may write dog's leashes when the leashes belong to several dogs. They may also write her's or use it's when they mean its.
How to Assess It
- Draw one dog beside a bowl and two dogs beside two bowls. Ask students to label each drawing with a possessive phrase and complete: 'The dog wagged ___ tail.'
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs toy dogs and paper bowls; have them arrange bowls for one dog, then two dogs, and label each setup.
Have partners explain how 'the girl's coat' differs from 'the girls' coats' by naming how many owners each phrase has.
Give pairs cards marked cat, cats, child, and children; call out 'hat' and have them race to write each possessive phrase.
Have students write index card labels for the teacher's desk and the students' cubbies, then check each apostrophe.
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