S and ES Flashcards (Plural Nouns Pronunciation)
These S and ES Flashcards focus on helping students recognise and practise the different pronunciations of plural noun endings: /s/ and /z/. The cards feature high-frequency plural words like cats, dogs, boxes, and watches, grouped by sound, making them ideal for phonics instruction, speech awareness, and spelling pattern exploration.
Perfect for literacy rotations, small group support, or sound-sorting games.
Learning goals
- We are learning to use most letter-sound matches including vowel diagraphs, less common long vowel patterns, e.g. ight, consonant clusters and silent letters, e.g. knife, thumb, when reading and writing words of one or more syllables.
- We are learning to use most letter-sound matches including vowel diagraphs, less common long vowel patterns, e.g. igh, consonant clusters and silent letters, e.g. knife, thumb, when reading and writing words of one or more syllables.
- We are learning to use digraphs, long vowels, blends and silent letters to spell one and two syllable words, including some compound words.
- We are learning to understand that a sound can be represented by various letter combinations, e.g. the long ‘a’ sound in stay, weight, able, make.
Curriculum alignment
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
Differentiation
Modifications
• Use in conjunction with sound buttons or colour-coded categories.
• Add icons or visual support for EAL/D and early readers.
• Provide fewer cards per group to simplify sorting tasks.
Extensions
• Sort cards by sound in small groups and explain the differences.
• Create word webs or lists using the same ending patterns.
• Use for oral reading fluency or phoneme awareness drills.