Phonics: Lesson 1 - Identifying Irregular Plurals

Introduction

Today, you will identify, read, and spell irregular plural words.

We are going to learn about irregular plural nouns. Irregular plural forms do not follow the usual rules for adding plural endings. Here are a few rules to remember about irregular plural nouns:

If a noun ends in f, change the f to v and add -es.
If a noun ends in fe, change the fe to v and add -es.
Some nouns have vowel or other spelling changes.
Some nouns don’t follow a rule and are the same in the singular and plural forms.

**Irregular Plurals**
Singular	Plural
life	lives
man	men
child	children
deer	deer

In Your Notebook: Draw a three-column chart. Write f or fe to ves, Letter Changes, and No Change in the top columns on the chart.

Read each word. Sort the word under the correct category. After completing the sort, please copy this sort into your phonics/word study journal.

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