The Cap <es>
Practice Words
Two-syllable words where 'es' is added to form plurals, creating an extra syllable.
Here is Don. He is out for a day with his family. When they go to the shops, they each get to choose something to buy.
His brother chooses some star glasses. His sister chooses a lollipop. Don chooses a blue cap that he can wear in the park.
At the park, the wind sweeps the cap off his head. He stretches out and nearly catches it before it sails on the breeze ahead of him.
The cap lands high up in a tree. Don fetches a small rock and tries to peg it at the hat to bring it down, but it does not work.
He starts to cry and he cannot stop. His new cap was so cool. Now it will be stuck in the tree for good and he will have to watch it get old and dirty.
He can see the cap from his window. Just when he is thinking that he might get the broom and try to poke it free, the moon comes up.
The moon catches his hat! He can see a smile on the moon. Don tells the moon that the cap is its to enjoy.
Don’s mum gets him a new cap. This one is red. He cannot wait until the moon is in the right spot for him to show it his new cap.
Don rushes out when the moon is on the rise. They are cap buddies now! Don hopes that the cap never falls out of the tree.
The next day, Don cannot help but think about the sun. Does the sun want to have its own cap too?