Y1 Grammar Punctuation and Spelling

Single Nouns Lesson

This Single Nouns lesson covers the prior learning of nouns, before moving onto the main skill of recognising and using single nouns.

The lesson starts with a prior learning activity to check pupils’ understanding. If they need more practice, you can choose other resources for that step. Children can then practise further by completing the activities and can extend their learning with engaging reasoning and application tasks.

National Curriculum Objective
English Year 1: (1G6.3) Regular plural noun suffixes –s or –es [for example, dog, dogs; wish, wishes], including the effects of these suffixes on the meaning of the noun

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2 Teaching Support

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Teaching PowerPoint

Teaching PowerPoint

This teaching PowerPoint guides pupils through the prior learning of nouns, before moving onto the main skill of recognising and using single nouns. There are some modelled varied fluency and application and reasoning questions included at the end.

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Modelling PowerPoint

Modelling PowerPoint

This PowerPoint can be used to model the questions that the children will complete on the varied fluency and application and reasoning worksheets as part of this lesson.

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Free Year 1 GPS Scheme of Work Summer Block 2 – Singular and Plural

Free Year 1 GPS Scheme of Work Summer Block 2 – Singular and Plural

This is a free scheme of work for Year 1 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling. This resource is the second block in the teaching sequence and includes 5 small steps with guidance for teaching.

1 Prior Learning

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Prior Learning Activity

Prior Learning Activity

This Single Nouns Prior Learning Activity recaps the prior learning of nouns, before moving onto the main skill of recognising and using single nouns.

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Interactive Activity

Interactive Activity

This Year 1 Nouns Game is designed to check pupils’ understanding of identifying common nouns.

2 Varied Fluency

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Mixed Activity

Mixed Activity

This main activity includes varied fluency, reasoning and application questions for pupils to practise the main skill of recognising and using single nouns.

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Varied Fluency

Varied Fluency

This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency questions for pupils to support the teaching of this step.

2 Application

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Application

Application

This application task includes a challenge activity which can be used to further pupils' understanding of the concepts taught in the Single Nouns lesson.

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Application and Reasoning

Application and Reasoning

This differentiated worksheet includes application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.

2 Homework

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Homework

Homework

This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency and application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.