Lesson Plan
Who’s the Owner?
Help your students own possessives! With this lesson your students will no longer ponder the placement of apostrophes in possessives. They’ll be able to place apostrophes perfectly!
Grades:
Subjects:
View aligned standards
Learning Objectives
- Students will be able to use apostrophes and construct possessives.
- Students will be able to differentiate between various possessive forms and determine how to use apostrophes in a variety of cases.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Ask the students to discuss the word possession with a partner. What is a possession? Guide the students in defining the word and recognizing that a possession is something owned. The person who owns it is the owner.
- Introduce the related word possessive.
- Tell the students that when we write, sometimes we use an apostrophe to create a possessive. Using a possessive helps to name the owner.
- Explain to the students that they will be learning how to write using possessives.