Are Your Students Pluralisation Rule Breakers? 

Everyone says that some rules are meant to be broken, and that may be true. However, there are also rules that should never be broken! Some such rules are those that apply when working with plural nouns.

Young writers can experience great difficulty in determining the correct plural form to use in their writing. This resource contains eight posters that highlight the rules for pluralising the following:

• common nouns
• nouns ending in s, x, z, ch and sh
• nouns ending in a consonant followed by y
• nouns ending in vowel followed by y
• nouns ending in f or fe
• nouns ending in consonant followed by o
• irregular plural nouns.

How to Make the Most of Your Plural Noun Rules Posters

1. Print the posters and display them in your classroom for students to reference when doing independent work.
2. Print the posters then slip them into a clear sleeve and use them in your guided groups as a reminder.
3. Print the posters then slide them into a clear sleeve and hang them on a ring as a reference tool for a learning centre.
4. Print the posters on a smaller scale (4-6 per sheet) and have students insert them into their reference folders or interactive notebooks.

We’ve also come up with bonus ways to turn posters into interactive tools that really make your lessons stick!

📂 Place copies in students’ homework folders for reference.

💻 Provide posters as digital resources for virtual students.

🧠 Test students’ memories by showing them the poster, then hiding it and having them tell you what they remember.

✅ Incorporate posters into your lesson wrap-up by having students write on a sticky note what they learned from the lesson and place it on the poster.

Download, Print and Go!

This resource prints as a full-colour PDF or Google Slides file. Use the Download button to access.

Note: These posters are fully editable! If you’d like to change a word, sentence, or image, simply download the Editable Google Slides resource file , make your changes, and print!