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Huffman Academy

Topic:

LA - Regular Plural Nouns

Learning Goals for this Lesson

Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.2; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.3; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.4.A; WIDA
Standard: Language of Language Arts

Students Will Know:

How to identify different plurals
of regular nouns based on the ending
of the nouns;
How to identify when plural
nouns are needed in a sentence based
on context
How to modify sentence
structure so the plural of a noun helps
the sentence make sense.

Lesson Essential Question:

Activating Strategy:

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Students Will Be Able To:

Demonstrate command
of the conventions of standard
English capitalization,
punctuation, and spelling
when writing.
Use knowledge of
language and its conventions
when writing, speaking,
reading, or listening.
Use context (e.g.,
definitions, examples, or
restatements in text) as a
clue to the meaning of a
word or phrase.

Key vocabulary to preview and vocabulary strategy:

Regular plural nouns, irregular plural

nouns, subject-verb agreement

Lesson Instruction
Learning Activity 1:
Teacher will explain that when something is plural it refers to more
than one. The teacher will create an anchor chart to show singular
and plural nouns.

The teacher will then pass out the Regular Plural Nouns Rules sheet.
Students will glue the edge of the sheet down [the part under
Regular Plural Nouns and cut along the dotted red lines. This will
go in the LA/Reading Journals on a new page titled Regular Plural
Noun Rules. Each of the four sections of this page will flip over,
exposing the notebook page beneath. Beneath each rule, students
will write two to three examples of a singular noun following that
rule to become a plural noun.

EX:
Add -s: Dog to dogs; key to keys; stereo to stereos
Add -es: tomato to tomatoes; kangaroo to kangaroos
Change y to i: baby to babies; fry to fries; family to
families
Change f to v: leaf to leaves; half to halves; knife to
knives

Assessment Prompt for LA 1:

Students will be asked to identify the rule and change the plural
noun to a singular noun by reversing the rule for the following
words:

Halves
Flies
Monkeys

Learning Activity 2:
Students will be provided with a list of nouns that they will turn into
irregular plural nouns:

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Graphic Organizer

Child (children)
Tooth (teeth)
Mouse (mice)
Goose (geese)
Person (people)
Man (men)
Ox (oxen)
Fish (fish or fishes)

Students will be instructed to analyze text to determine if a noun

needs to be plural. The subject and the verb must match. If the
subject is plural, the verb must also be plural.

The horse runs fast around the track.

The verb runs ends in s, so the singular horse is correct.

The goose that surround the pond are loud.

Since the verb surround does not end in s, goose is incorrect-it should be geese.

The loaves of bread on the shelves are fresh.

Since the linking verb are is like the plural form of is, the nouns
loaves and shelves are correctly plural.

Assessment Prompt for LA 2:

Students will complete page 86 in The Grammar and Writing Book
textbook with the teachers guidance.

Assignment

Learning Activity 3:

Students will be
provided multiple choice
Regular Plural Nouns
test.

The teacher will pass out I have, who has game for plural nouns.
Students will be tasked with spelling out each plural noun like in a
spelling bee. For example, I have chairs. C-H-A-I-R-S. Chairs! Who
has the plural of cherry? I have cherries. C-H-E-R-R-I-E-S.
Cherries! Who has...

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Students will play the game until all cards are finished or until time
runs out.

Students will then be tasked with changing the nouns in the

following sentences to plural nouns (regular or irregular) based on
the context in the sentence on their own sheet of paper. Students
may work in groups:
Pumpkin patch are popular during October!
My favorite scary movie play this time of year.
The store sell lots of pumpkin pies.
Family around the country go trick-or-treating on
Halloween.
My favorite candy are the chocolate ones!

Assessment Prompt for LA 3:

Students will then complete page 87 in The Grammar and Writing
Book textbook individually.

Summarizing Strategy:

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