More Than One

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

• Tell students that “pencil” is a noun. A noun is a person, place, or thing.
• Explain that “pencils” is a plural noun. Plural nouns are more than one noun.
• Give several more examples of regular plural nouns, writing them on the board as singular nouns. Then add an “s” to make them plural.

Guided Practice

• Show students the collections of objects you’ve gathered in paper bags.
• Take a bag and tell students that you are going to count how many objects are inside the bag.
• On an index card, write the number of objects and the corresponding plural noun (i.e. five cubes).
• Hold up the index card and practice reading what you wrote by pointing to each word.

Independent working time

• Divide students into groups of two. Give each pair counting collections and index cards. Have each partner work independently to count and write the contents of the group on index cards.
• When the partners are finished counting, they should read the words they wrote aloud to each other, pointing to each word as they read.
• When they are finished with the counting collections, students should complete the Read About Plurals worksheet.