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Student Instructions
1. 
Edit the text to make it a complete and clean sentence.
2. 
Move the lazy cat to check your answer.
3. 
If you missed mistakes on slide one, circle the rule(s) in the blue box that you should remember next time.
Your Goal: Learn to form the possessives of common nouns!
Teacher Notes (not visible to students)
See junewriters.com/teachers for other resources to help you teach possessives and other grammar, punctuation, and editing conventions. Writing conventions practiced in this assignment: • To form possessives of common nouns: -Singular and doesn’t end in -ess —> add ’s -Plural and doesn’t end in -s —> add ’s -Plural and ends in -s —> add ’ • Awkward Sentences. Avoid words that sound awkward by rewriting the sentence to a simpler sentence. • Meaning. Whatever you do, be thoughtful about how your choices impact the meaning of your text.
