Kids Learn With ConceptOne cat, or three cats? One bed, or three beds? Once a child knows what a naming word is, the very next step is showing how many. In Class 1 that is one small letter: an –s at the end of the word.
Read these naming words
- cats
- beds
- balls
Cat means one cat. Bed means one bed. Ball means one ball.
When we add an –s at the end of a naming word, it shows that something is more than one in number.
Examples
| One | Add –s | More than one |
|---|---|---|
| cat | cat + s | cats |
| bed | bed + s | beds |
| ball | ball + s | balls |
Count, then choose the word
This is the exercise children enjoy most, because they get to count first and write second. Three hats on the page, so the answer is hats, not hat.
Now write the naming word yourself
Practice from the lesson
- Count the things in each picture and circle the correct word: hat/hats, duck/ducks, chair/chairs, apple/apples, house/houses, lamp/lamps.
- Write the naming word for each picture. Add –s if there is more than one. (The first one is done: two bottles.)
- Look around the room. Name any five things that are more than one in number, and write their names with an –s at the end.
Answer key for grown-ups
1. a) hats b) ducks c) chair d) apples e) houses f) lamp
2. a) two bottles b) three flowers c) one pencil d) three birds e) three tables and two chairs
3. Answers will differ. Good ones from any Indian home: books, chairs, spoons, windows, shoes, plates, pens, socks.
A quick tip for parents
Do not introduce the exceptions yet. A Class 1 child does not need boxes, babies or children in the same week they meet cats. Let the plain –s rule become automatic first; the special cases are a later chapter and land much more easily on top of a rule the child already trusts.
English Grammar Workbook — Class 1
This lesson is one chapter. The workbook has all 15, in order, with far more practice than a single page can hold — naming words, special names, one & many, gender, pronouns, a/an, this/that/these/those, action words, describing words, opposites, prepositions, is/am/are, has/have, was/were and punctuation.
- Concept first, then practice — the rule is explained in a child's words before a single blank has to be filled.
- Colourful picture-based exercises that Class 1 children actually finish.
- A complete answer key at the back, so a parent can check the work in a minute.
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