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Grade 2 Reading & Writing · World 7: Word Workshop · Level 58
Possessive Nouns
The dog's bone, Maya's book.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 58
- To show that something belongs to someone, add an apostrophe and s to the owner.
- The bone belongs to the dog: the dog's bone.
- Don't mix it up! Dogs, with just s, means more than one dog. Dog's, with apostrophe s, means something belongs to the dog.
- Your turn! Tap the two words that show who owns something.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- 2.L.GC.1.18 — Use apostrophes to form contractions and singular possessive nouns.