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1st grade · English Language Arts · Unit 9 of 13

More Than One

Add -s for more

What your child practices

Plurals: adding -s to a naming word means more than one (one cat, two cats). Stretch questions add -es to words like box and fox.

Maine Learning Results learning standard: Language 1 · adding -s to name more than one

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. One means just one thing: a cat.
  2. Add -s to mean more than one: cats.
  3. One car, two cars.

Example: One dog, two ___. Which word? Two means more than one. Add -s to dog. Answer: dogs

More Than One in Maine

In the Maine Learning Results, this is unit 9 of 13 in 1st grade English Language Arts, after Describing Words and before Kinds of Sentences.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Maine Department of Education

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which word fits? “We have two .”

    🚗🚗
    • cars
    • car
    • dogs

  2. Question 2

    Which word fits? “We have four .”

    ⭐⭐⭐⭐
    • star
    • stars
    • cats

  3. Question 3

    One egg, two . Which word?

    🥚🥚
    • egg
    • trees
    • eggs

  4. Question 4

    Does “pigs” mean one or more than one?

    • 🐷one
    • 🐷🐷more than one

  5. Question 5

    One cat, two . Which word?

    🐱🐱
    • cats
    • drums
    • cat

  6. Question 6

    Which word means more than one?

    • car
    • egg
    • books

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