Curated OER
Find the Error 53
In this grammar worksheet, learners read a paragraph about a sit-com. Students locate mistakes in apostrophes, articles, singular/plurals, and spelling.
Curated OER
Writing with Style: Six Traits of Good Writers
Fourth graders listen as the teacher reads a picture book that emphasized word choice. They discuss words and how word choice impacts a piece of writing. Students view various passages on the overhead, and highlight adjectives and verbs...
Curated OER
Eva's Code
Students understand the importance of punctuation in a sentence. In this codes lesson, students write a pen pal letter using codes for the punctuation. Students send a key to break the code if needed.
Curriculum Corner
“I Can” Common Core! 3rd Grade Language
Support third graders with developing their language skills using this Common Core checklist. With each standard written as an I can statement, children are given clear learning goals to work toward throughout the year.
Curated OER
Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!
Students read "Green Eggs and Ham" in celebration of Dr. Seuss's birthday and visit a storymaker website. Students create and type a three scene story using characters from Dr. Seuss's books and share their story with the class.
Curated OER
Punctuation
In this punctuation worksheet, students connect 5 labels to the correct punctuation marks to what they show when used correctly in a sentence by drawing arrows to connect each one. Students fill in the missing punctuation marks in 10...
Curated OER
Punctuation Practice
In this punctuation worksheet, students determine the correct punctuation mark that matches a given description. Students may check answers by clicking an answer button beneath each sentence.
Curated OER
First Class Mail
Students read The Witch of Blackbird Pond, and write a friendly letter to Elizabeth George Speare, the author, discussing their points of interest in the novel with her.
Curated OER
The End
Students listen as the teacher reads a story. Pictures are displayed as the teacher reads the story. Students jot down ideas for the story ending, and create an illustration to compliment their story. Student story endings and...
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Possessive Nouns
An explanation with examples of possessive nouns and their use of apostrophe.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Possessives
Tutorial explores how to use possessive nouns and adjectives correctly.
Other
Project l.a.: Possessive Nouns
Designed for elementary students, this Internet viewable slide show explains how to form possessives, then provides practice sentences. At the end are links to an online practice quiz and a printable worksheet.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Forming and Using Possessive Nouns
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.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Possessive Case of Nouns: Rules and Examples
This page expains the rules for forming possessive nouns and provides examples.
English Plus+
Grammar Slammer's Apostrophes Showing Possession
This site discusses the correct and incorrect usage of apostrophes to show possession and examples are provided. Note that links are provided at the bottom of the page for other specific uses of the apostrophe.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Advanced (Plural) Possession
Possessive plurals have a complicated relationship with apostrophes, but this exercise is here to help you understand it!
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Introduction to the Possessive
Learn to use apostrophes to indicate possession, or ownership -- and when not to use them.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: 2nd Grade Lesson Plans for Forming Possessives
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.
Other
Grammar quizzes.com: Possessive Nouns: Indicating Possession
A series of carts containing rules and examples of possessives including singular and plural common nouns, proper nouns, inanimate nouns, days and holidays, and numbers and letters. A fourteen-question practice exercise follows the...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Possessive Pronoun and Apostrophe
This Purdue Online Writing Lab article explains the three uses of the apostrophe.
Quia
Quia: Singular and Plural Possessive Nouns
This matching game has students match the singular and plural possessive nouns to their plural forms while remembering the location of each pair. Java is required.
SUNY Empire State College
Empire State College: Apostrophes
This resource looks at the three main uses of apostrophes: to take the place of deleted letters; to show possession; and to show plurals of letters, numbers, symbols, abbreviations and words used as words.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Self Teaching Units: Apostrophes
This module explains how to use apostrophes to form possessive nouns and pronouns, provides links to exercises for each new idea, and a link to a post lesson quiz.
English Plus+
Plural Possessives
This site discusses the correct and incorrect usage of apostrophes to show possession with plural nouns.