Irregular Plural Nouns
Your child can make plurals that do not just add s, like child to children and tooth to teeth. They also know group words like a flock of birds.
In curriculum terms
Form and use irregular plural nouns (e.g., children, teeth, mice, geese) in addition to regular plurals, recognising that some nouns have irregular plural forms that do not follow the -s/-es pattern
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How to tell they’ve got it
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Try this together
If you point to a picture of several mice or a group of children, can your child write the correct plural — knowing it's "mice" not "mouses" and "children" not "childs"?
Where this sits on the map
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solid = must come firstdashed = helps
Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
Show candidate curriculum codes · 1 ACARA · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
understand that apostrophes signal missing letters in contractions, and apostrophes are used to show singular and plural possession
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.