Imagine you have a cat named Muffin who has a cozy bed. If you want to show that the bed belongs to Muffin, use a singular possessive by adding an apostrophe and an "s": Muffin's bed. Suppose there are many cats, and they all share one big bed. You use a plural possessive to show that the bed belongs to all the cats, which usually just adds an apostrophe after the "s": cats' bed. However, some words change when they go from singular to plural, like "child" becomes "children." If you want to show that the toy belongs to the children, you'd use an irregular plural possessive by adding an apostrophe and "s" after the new word: children's toy. So, singular possessive means one, plural possessive means many and irregular plurals possessive is for those special words that change when they become many.

The worksheet includes 13 educational sentences about our character, Rita, the possessive raccoon. It is designed to help students understand the application of apostrophes in singular possessive, plural possessive, and irregular possessive nouns. The exercise requires students to underline the possessive phrase in the sentence and categorize it as either singular possessive (SP), plural possessive (PP), or irregular possessive (IPP).