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APPLY IT NOW Encourage volunteers to share with the class their rewritten sentences. Students should demonstrate an understanding of irregular plurals and nouns that use the same plural and singular form.
Note which students had difficulty with singular nouns and plural nouns. Assign Practice Book pages 4–5 for further practice.
TEACHING OPTIONS
WRITING CONNECTION
Use pages 224–225 of the Writing portion of the book.
Students should find and underline forces, dead, and tombs. Discuss that dead is plural because it refers to more than one dead person.
Reteach Have students work together in groups to create posters that illustrate five of the rules for forming plurals of nouns. Instruct students to agree first on which five rules to include. Then have students explore ways to format the poster after sketching or outlining their ideas on drawing paper. When students have chosen a format, ask them to write the rules on the poster, including several examples for each rule. Encourage students to decorate their posters. You may wish to display completed posters in the classroom.
Meeting Individual Needs Auditory Remind students to note the differences in pronunciation between the singular form and plural form of certain nouns, such as hoof and hooves and woman and women. Encourage students to picture the spellings of the words as they say them and to practice using the words in everyday conversation.
Form the plural of compounds ending in -ful by adding -s. SINGULAR
PLURAL
SINGULAR
PLURAL
handful
handfuls
armful
armfuls
Some nouns are used only in the plural form. pajamas
binoculars
scissors
slacks
Cooperative Learning
Some nouns are plural in form but singular in meaning and use. civics
mathematics
news
physics
EXERCISE 1 Write the plural of each item listed below. Use a dictionary when necessary. 1. bicycle 6. tree 11. Portuguese 16. corps 2. spoonful 7. point of view 12. trumpet 17. trout 3. deer 8. mousetrap 13. gentleman 18. oasis 4. moose 9. candy 14. baby 19. kimono 5. soprano 10. knife 15. chief 20. eyetooth EXERCISE 2 Put the singular nouns in one column and the plural nouns in another column. Some words will go in both columns. Use a dictionary when necessary. shelf
Iroquois
goose
echoes
volcano
bucketful
duo
drive-ins
teeth
pulleys
salmon
measles
cuff
analyses
species
series
clothes
swine
bison
classes
zoos
sister-in-law
tomatoes
congresswoman
gulf
hoof
victories
tax
physics
treasure crises Chinese
Find three plural nouns used in the p. 222 excerpt.
APPLY IT NOW Find the mistakes in the use of plural nouns in the paragraph below and rewrite the nouns correctly. It was a cold winter night, and my dad was getting ready to build a fire. He needed help hauling in lumber from the woodes behind our house. First, we inspected the wood for tickes, since the deers that roam our yard often carry them. We found none, so we each carried several log into the house. Then my dad put the wood in the fireplace and took out a book of matchs to light the fire. In no time, sparkes flew and heat from the fire warmed the room.
Nouns
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Have students write 10 singular nouns for which they feel that forming the plural is tricky. Encourage students to review the words they have learned so far and to check a dictionary for ideas. When students have finished their lists, have them exchange lists with partners. Tell students to fill in the plural forms on the lists they receive. Then have partners decide together whether all the plurals have been written correctly.
Common Core Standards CCSS.ELA.L.7.1 CCSS.ELA.W.7.5
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