Y4 Grammar Punctuation and Spelling
Identifying Noun Phrases Lesson
This Year 4 Identifying Noun Phrases lesson covers the prior learning of noun phrases before moving onto the main skill of identifying noun phrases within a passage of text.
The lesson starts with a prior learning activity to check pupils’ understanding. The interactive lesson slides recap the prior learning before moving on to the main skill. 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 4: (4G3.2) Noun phrases expanded by the addition of modifying adjectives, nouns and preposition phrases (e.g. the teacher expanded to: the strict maths teacher with curly hair)
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2 Teaching Support
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Teaching PowerPoint
This teaching PowerPoint guides pupils through the prior learning of noun phrases before moving onto the main skill of identifying noun phrases within a passage of text. There are some modelled varied fluency and application and reasoning questions included at the end.
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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 4 GPS Scheme of Work Spring Block 3 – Noun Phrases
This is a free scheme of work for Year 4 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling. This resource is the second block in the teaching sequence and includes 5 small steps with guidance for teaching.
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Video Tutorial
In this Expanded Noun Phrases Video Tutorial, Laura demonstrates how to extend simple noun phrases by adding adjectives and prepositional phrases.
1 Prior Learning
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Prior Learning Activity
This prior learning activity recaps the prior learning of noun phrases before moving onto the main skill of identifying noun phrases.
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Interactive Activity
This Year 3 Noun Phrases Game is designed to check pupils’ ability to recognise and use noun phrases in sentences.
2 Varied Fluency
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Varied Fluency
This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency questions for pupils to support the teaching of this step.
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Interactive Activity
This Year 4 Expanded Noun Phrases Matching Cards Game has been designed with 12 matching cards to check pupils’ understanding of using expanded noun phrases.
2 Application
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Application
This application task can be used to further pupils' understanding of the concepts taught in the identifying noun phrases lesson.
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Mixed Activity
This main activity includes varied fluency, reasoning and application questions for pupils to practise the main skill of identifying noun phrases.
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Application and Reasoning
This differentiated worksheet includes application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.
2 Homework
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Worksheet
This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency and application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.
