This 28-page pack is designed to give people lots of focused practice distinguishing singular and plural forms of nouns ending in <s>, <z>, <ch>, <j> or <x> by adding <-es> (/əz/) to the plural form. For example, we say two “buses”, “sneezes”, “beaches”, “bridges”, and “foxes”. These are irregular plurals because they deviate from standard practice of simply adding a -s to the end of a noun, as with many nouns in English that end with different consonants (e.g. “labs”, “legs”, “snails”, etc.).

To help promote transfer to everyday activities, we’ve included a short “eye spy” activity, which you can tailor to encourage more practice in plural nouns ending in <-es> (/əz/).

Finally, the nouns are included on cards at the end of the pack, which you can laminate and/or cut up for sorting games.