Confident Reader
Lesson 253Confident Reader10–15 minutes

Lesson 253: Irregular plurals

Focus: Irregular plurals

Objective

What we'll learn

Read and understand words with Irregular plurals.

For grown-ups

Parent & teacher intro

Confident readers break big words into smaller parts. Look for the pattern, chunk it up, then read the whole word.

Warm-up

Interactive phonics activity

Break each word into parts, then read it as a whole.

Words

Word list

micefeetteethchildrenpeoplegeese

Practice

Example sentences

  • I can see the mice.
  • We can see the feet.
  • You can see the teeth.
  • They can see the children.

Story time

Leo and the Mice

Leo went to the hill. Leo saw a mice and a feet.

"Look!" said Leo. "The teeth is by the children."

Ivy came to help. Together they played with the people and the geese.

At the end of the day, Leo and Ivy smiled. What a wonderful Irregular plurals adventure!

Check for understanding

Comprehension questions

1. Where did Leo go?

2. What did Leo see first?

3. How did the story end?

STEM word of the day

🔬 habitat

Meaning: the place where a plant or animal lives

Example: A frog’s habitat is a pond.

Review

Vocabulary review

  • feetA feet is something we can talk about or see.
  • teethA teeth is something we can talk about or see.
  • childrenA children is something we can talk about or see.
  • peopleA people is something we can talk about or see.

Play

Fun challenge

Match each word to what it starts with.

Stretch

Try more words

micefeetteethchildrenpeoplegeese