English Unit: Irregular Plurals
This unit incorporates activities aligned with the Australian Curriculum content descriptor ACELY1514. The unit contains a presentation that walks students through the spelling rules aligned with irregular plurals, a student reference card, accompanying worksheets, posters and activities. At the completion of the unit, there is a quiz for teachers to utilise to assess student learning. Everything you need to teach irregular plurals, is right here at your fingertips.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to use less common plurals, e.g. cactus/cacti, louse/lice and understand how a suffix changes the meaning or grammatical form of a word, e.g. ‘tion’ can change verbs into nouns, protect – protection.
Curriculum alignment
EN3-VOCAB-01
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Extends Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, morphological analysis and generating precise definitions for specific contexts
EN3-RECOM-01
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Fluently reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes, analysing text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
EN3-SPELL-01
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Automatically applies taught phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts, and justifies spelling strategies used to spell unfamiliar words
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.