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Grade 3 Reading & Writing · World 4: Word Job Junction · Level 28
Special Nouns
Irregular plurals (children, mice, wolves, sheep), collective nouns (a flock, a team, a herd), and abstract nouns (courage, freedom, kindness).
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 28
- Welcome to Word Job Junction! Every word has a job. Let's start with nouns that don't follow the usual rules.
- Most nouns add s for more than one. Irregular nouns change instead: one child, many children. One mouse, two mice. One tooth, all my teeth!
- Many nouns ending in f or f e change to v e s: wolf, wolves. Leaf, leaves. Knife, knives. And some don't change at all: one sheep, ten sheep!
- Collective nouns name a group: a flock of birds, a herd of cows, a school of fish, a pride of lions.
- Abstract nouns name ideas and feelings you can't see or touch: courage, joy, freedom, friendship.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- 3.L.GC.1.19 — Grammar: Form and use irregular plural nouns. (Master)
- 3.L.GC.1.23 — Grammar: Use collective and abstract nouns. (Master)