Students use flash cards to match the mother names to the baby names for farm animals. In a designated "barn" in the room, students simulate being mothers, fathers, and babies. The baby must find his mother and father. Students visit...

First graders identify the letter and phoneme /s/ in written and spoken language. Students practice the production of the /s/ sound through tongue twisters. They identify the initial placement of the letter and sound by creating a...

Students identify the grapheme and phoneme for S. They practice writing the letter S and through listening activities, discriminate the phoneme /s/. They associate the phoneme /s/ with its letter representation and identify it in various...

Students explore the /s/ sound on the end of words. They discuss the phoneme /s/. Students listen for /s/=s at the beginning, middle and end of words. They write the letter s and practice reading and writing words containing /s/.

Students use phonics to recognize the /s/ sound. As a group, students recite tongue twisters to recognize the /s/ sound. Students search through magazines to find objects that contain the /s/ phoneme.

The Common Core Standard L.1.1.c states that the students will use singular and plural nouns in sentences with matching verbs. Students will do this in writing and speaking. This instructional activity allows students to write and tell...

This printable vowels worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will find a hidden picture by identifying words that contain the ending consonant /s/. An answer key and lesson...

In this lesson, the book entitled A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink: What Is a Noun? (Words Are Categorical), written by Brian P. Cleary, is used as the mentor text. After learning the basic definition of noun, a person, place, thing, or...

It is imperative that our students in Kindergarten understand that words have different forms. Students will orally change nouns from singular to plural by adding /s/ and will be able to show understanding of this in their writing....

[Free Registration/Login Required] A simple flipchart exercise that will help children identify proper spellings of plural nouns.

Sort words into singulars and plurals to help Lucy the elephant decorate her new home in this interactive game.

An interactive game where students get to help an elephant named Lucy decorate her new home by sorting words into singulars and plurals.

An interactive game where students can help Lucy the Elephant choose items and decorations for her new home by sorting words into singulars and plurals.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will investigate and identify basic rules for creating plural nouns.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Created by Robin Duggins, Second grade language arts supplement to lesson and rules for plural words.

Help an elephant named Lucy decorate her new home by sorting words into plurals and singulars in this fun interactive game.

An interactive game to help student practice with singular and plural forms of words. Sort words into singulars and plurals, and then choose an item to give Lucy the elephant to help he decorate her new home.

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...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart focuses on activities that allow students to demonstrate their knowledge of: ABC order, nouns, plurals, irregular plurals, sentences and quotation marks.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will help students use the apostrophe accurately to mark possession by identifying possessive apostrophes in reading, and helping them understand the basic rules for applying apostrophes...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will learn to re-read own writing to check for grammatical sense (coherence) and accuracy (agreement); to identify errors and to suggest alternative constructions.

This article focuses on teaching 2nd graders to form possessive. It provides two complete lesson plans with activities for teaching them how to form possessives.

The "Reading from Scratch" site provides a list of spelling rules with examples.