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AFTER READING
OBJECTIVES
  • Define and identify irregular plural nouns.
  • Spell irregular plural nouns correctly.
  • Use irregular plural nouns in writing.
  • Become familiar with irregular plural noun assessment on high-stakes tests.
Monitor Progress
then...
see The Grammar and Writing Book pp. 92–95.
If... students have difficulty identifying irregular plural nouns,
Grammar
Spiral REVIEW
DAILY FIX-IT
This week use Daily Fix-It Transparency 8.
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ELL
Support Grammar See the Grammar Transition lessons in the ELL and Transition Handbook.
The Grammar & Writing Book
The Grammar and Writing
Book
For more instruction
and practice, use pp. 92–97.
DAY 1
Teach and Model
DAY 2
Develop the Concept
DAY 3
Apply to Writing
DAY 4
Test Preparation
DAY 5
Cumulative Review
DAILY FIX-IT
  1. Those children has a big collection of butter flies. (have; butterflies)
  2. Kim collects shells and Maya collects earings.(shells,; earrings)
READING-GRAMMAR CONNECTION
Write this sentence from Prudy's Problem on the board:
But Prudy herself found that she could barely get to her desk to feed her mice.
Explain that mice is an irregular plural noun. The singular noun, mouse, does not add -s or -es to form the plural. Instead, it has a special form: mice.
Display Grammar Transparency 8. Read aloud the definitions and sample sentences. Work through the items.
Grammar Transparency
Grammar Transparency 8
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DAILY FIX-IT
  1. My friend jody has boxs all
    over her room. (Jody; boxes)
  2. How can you do home work in this room. (homework; room?)

GUIDED PRACTICE
Review the concept of irregular plural nouns.
  • A plural noun names more than one person, place, or thing. Most nouns add -s to form the plural.
  • An irregular plural noun has a special form for the plural. Some nouns and their irregular plural forms are child/children, deer/deer, foot/feet, goose/geese, leaf/leaves, life/lives, man/men, mouse/mice, ox/oxen, sheep/sheep, and tooth/teeth.
HOMEWORK Grammar and Writing Practice Book p. 29. Work through the first two items with the class.
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DAILY FIX-IT
  1. Many people collects pennys and other coins. (collect; pennies)
  2. Tim displaied his collection in springfield. (displayed; Springfield)


USE CORRECT PLURAL NOUNS
Use the correct plural forms so
that readers will not get confused or distracted.
  • Have students review something they have written to see if they can improve it by using the correct plural forms of nouns.
HOMEWORK Grammar and Writing Practice Book p. 30.
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DAILY FIX-IT
  1. On saturday, Kate shoped for a doll for her collection. (Saturday; shopped)
  2. Jay has more then a thowsand stamps. (than; thousand)
STANDARDIZED TEST PREP
Test Tip
You will need to memorize
the nouns that have irregular plurals. Some nouns have plurals that may not seem
logical.
No: James saw two mooses
in Montana.
James saw two meese in Montana.
Yes: James saw two moose
in Montana.
HOMEWORK Grammar and Writing Practice Book p. 31.
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DAILY FIX-IT
  1. Julie collected some pretty leafs at the Park. (leaves; park)
  2. She droped them in the middel of her room. (dropped; middle)
ADDITIONAL PRACTICE
Assign pp. 92–95 in The
Grammar and Writing Book.
EXTRA PRACTICE Grammar and Writing Practice Book p. 129.
TEST PREPARATION Grammar
and Writing Practice Book
pp. 153–154.
ASSESSMENT
CUMULATIVE REVIEW Grammar
and Writing Practice Book p. 32.
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Grammar Irregular Plural Nouns