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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Apostrophes and Possession

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow lesson focuses on the use of apostrophes in forming possessives; it defines apostrophe and lists its purposes. It lists two types of possessives, singular and plural, explains how to form each including the placement of...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Apostrophes and Possession

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the use of apostrophes to show possession. It explains when to add apostrophe s, when to add only an apostrophe, how to show joint possession, and how to show possession with compound nouns. It provides examples of...
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Other

World Wide Words: Possessive Apostrophes

For Students 9th - 10th
This site discusses the misuse of the apostrophe, such as using an apostrophe in a word which is a simple plural, now known as "greengrocer's apostrophe", the contraction it/it's, who's/whose, etc. A trend toward dropping the possessive...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Forming and Using Possessive Nouns

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
Possessives show when a noun belongs to someone. It is often indicated with an apostrophe "s", but when words end in "s" only an apostrophe is added.
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Other

Bellevue Community College: Apostrophes [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource explains the three uses of the apostrophe and provides examples. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]
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TES Global

Blendspace: Grace's Blend

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This fourteen-part learning module provides assorted activities for nouns. This blendspace provides reproducible resources, including video lessons and worksheets, for possessive nouns, plural nouns, possessive nouns, concrete nouns, and...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Singular and Plural Nouns

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A simple flipchart exercise that will help children identify proper spellings of plural nouns.