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.
Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards benchmark: 1.2.1.3 · nouns that name more than one
How we explain it
Children can open this short lesson before they practice.
- One means just one thing: a cat.
- Add -s to mean more than one: cats.
- 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 Minnesota
In the Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards, 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.
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
Does “frog” mean one or more than one?
- 🐸🐸more than one
- 🐸one
🐸 one
Hint: “frog” has no -s at the end, so it means just one.
Question 2
Does “books” mean one or more than one?
- 📕📕more than one
- 📕one
📕📕 more than one
Hint: The -s at the end of “books” means more than one.
Question 3
One cat, two . Which word?
🐱🐱- trees
- cats
- cat
cats
Hint: For more than one, add -s to the end: cat → cats.
Question 4
Which word fits? “We have two .”
⚽⚽- hats
- ball
- balls
balls
Hint: There is more than one ball, so add -s: balls.
Question 5
One hat, two . Which word?
🎩🎩- cars
- hat
- hats
hats
Hint: For more than one, add -s to the end: hat → hats.
Question 6
One drum, two . Which word?
🥁🥁- drum
- pigs
- drums
drums
Hint: For more than one, add -s to the end: drum → drums.