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1st grade · English Language Arts · Unit 9 of 17

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.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 1.3(C); 1.11(D) · adding -s or -es 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 Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 9 of 17 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: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

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

    Does “cakes” mean one or more than one?

    • 🎂one
    • 🎂🎂more than one

  2. Question 2

    Which word means more than one?

    • star
    • pigs
    • car

  3. Question 3

    Which word fits? “I see four .”

    🎩🎩🎩🎩
    • dogs
    • hats
    • hat

  4. Question 4

    One bee, two . Which word?

    🐝🐝
    • bees
    • bee
    • birds

  5. Question 5

    Does “birds” mean one or more than one?

    • 🐦one
    • 🐦🐦more than one

  6. Question 6

    One drum, two . Which word?

    🥁🥁
    • ducks
    • drums
    • drum

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