 Re: How can I get them to use the '-s' ending?
You may want to help them "notice" the /s/, but it is late learned because it carries no meaning. I would not spend too much time on it.
My students play a game to draw attention to the /s/. I make a wheel with a spinner (a brad holding a paperclip). The wheel is divided into 8 parts. In each part is a stem sentence, one singular, one plural...like this: A turtle..../Turtles.../ A bear.../Bears.../ They have to finish the sentence using one of the words from the word bank (live/eat/like...).Beyond that, I have an editing chart and the /s/ is listed along with punctuation (self-checking). |