Singular and Plural Nouns
Objectives: Students should be able to use the articles “a” and “an” for singular nouns. They should be able to pluralize nouns. They should be able to use “is” and “are” correctly in a sentence. And finally they should be able to differentiate between singular and plural.
Warm-Up: Review articles to make sure they remember (also then reviews vowels and consonants). Review the previous lesson of pluralizing nouns by going over the homework. Do some reviewing altogether as a class on the chalkboard.
Presentation: To make sure students understand that articles are only used with singular nouns do some examples. Such as: “a cow” vs. “few cows” or “an apple” vs. “3 apples”
Practice: - Write words on the board that students are familiar with and have students raise their hands to indicate whether the words are singular (one) or plural (more than one).
- On the board write fragments such as, “ ___ onion, 3 onion__.” And have students come up to the board to write either “a” or “an” before a singular noun or “s”, “ies”, or “es” to pluralize the nouns given.
- Introduce “is” for singular nouns and “are” for plural nouns by giving examples.
“A grape is a fruit.”
“Grapes are fruits.”
“A cow is an animal.”
“Cows are animals.”
- Have students read aloud for oral practice and then copy down in their notebook.
- Give the students more examples to first do on their own and then to go over as a class.