Y2 Grammar Punctuation and Spelling

Recognising Nouns and Proper Nouns Lesson

This Recognising Common Nouns and Proper Nouns lesson covers the prior learning of using capital letters, before moving onto the main skill of recognising common nouns and proper nouns.

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 1: (1G5.1) Using a capital letter for names of people, places, the days of the week, and the personal pronoun ‘I’

English Year 1: (1G5.1) Capital letters for names and for the personal pronoun I

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2 Teaching Support

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Lesson Slides

Lesson Slides

These lesson slides guide pupils through the prior learning of using capital letters, before moving onto the main skill of recognising common nouns and proper nouns. There are a number of questions to check pupils' understanding throughout.

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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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Scheme of Work

Scheme of Work

This is a free scheme of work for Year 2 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling. This resource is the first block in the teaching sequence and includes 6 small steps with guidance for teaching.

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Lesson Slides

Lesson Slides

These are the same as the lesson slides on Classroom Secrets. You can assign this as an activity for pupils to access individually in school or remotely from home.

1 Prior Learning

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Prior Learning Activity

Prior Learning Activity

This Recognising Common Nouns and Proper Nouns Prior Learning Activity recaps the prior learning of capital letters before moving onto the main skill of recognising common nouns and proper nouns.

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Interactive Activity

Interactive Activity

This Year 1 Nouns Game supports children to recognise nouns in sentences and sort words that are nouns.

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Interactive Activity

Interactive Activity

This Capital Letters Year 1 Game aims to supports pupils’ understanding and application of using capital letters for names.

2 Varied Fluency

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Varied Fluency

Varied Fluency

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

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Interactive Activity

Interactive Activity

This Year 2 Recognising Common Nouns and Proper Nouns Game is designed to check pupils’ ability to recognise noun types.

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 Recognising Common Nouns and Proper Nouns lesson.

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Mixed Activity

Mixed Activity

This main activity includes varied fluency, reasoning and problem solving questions for pupils to practise the main skill of recognising common nouns and proper nouns.

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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.