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Student Instructions
1. 
Edit the text to make it a complete and clean sentence.
2. 
Move the lazy cat to check your answer.
3. 
If you missed mistakes on slide one, circle the rule(s) in the blue box that you should remember next time.
Your Goal: Learn to form the plurals of common nouns!
Teacher Notes (not visible to students)
See junewriters.com/teachers for other resources to help you teach plurals, common nouns, and other grammar, punctuation, and editing conventions. Writing conventions practiced in this assignment: To form plurals of common nouns: • Default —> add -s • Ends in a vowel + y —> add -s • Ends in a consonant + y —> remove the y and add -ies • Ends in a consonant + o —> add -es* • Ends in s, x, ch, sh, h, or z —> add -es* • Ends in f or fe —> remove the f/fe and add -ves* * Memorize words that defy the rules above
