These activities will help to develop the use of irregular plurals. A plural is a grammatical marker that indicates there is more than one of an item. A plural is usually marked by putting an 's' on the end of a word, e.g. 'cat' 'cats'. Some words do not follow this pattern, e.g. 'sheep', 'tooth/teeth'. Make sure your child understands regular plurals before working on irregular plurals.
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Early years skill: | not specified |
Early years typical range: | not specified |
P-scales/Curriculum skill: | English Speaking |
P-scales/Curriculum level: | L1a |
TAP skill: | Expressive Language |
TAP level: | TAP60 |
Pre/Nat. Curriculum Area: | not specified |
Pre/Nat. Curiculum Standard: | not specified |
Section: | Primary (5-11yrs) info; Secondary (11-16yrs) info |
Activity/strategy name and materials required | How to do the activity | Key principles for doing the activity and comments |
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Introduction | 1. Explain to your child that you are going to talk about plurals - this is where there it more than one item. 2. Explain that for lots of items, we add an 's' on the end of the word to indicate more than one, e.g. 'one cat, two cats'. 3. Explain that some words use a different ending. Look through the picture cards together and talk about hte different words.
| To work on regular plurals first - click here for activities (add link) |
Matching Pairs | ||
Lotto | To make this game harder, you could say a sentence with your target word in. |