Y5 Grammar Punctuation and Spelling
Expanding Noun Phrases Lesson
This Expanding Noun Phrases lesson covers the prior learning of identifying noun phrases before moving onto the main skill of expanding noun phrases.
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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Lesson Slides
These lesson slides guide pupils through the prior learning of identifying noun phrases before moving onto the main skill of expanding noun phrases. There are a number of questions to check pupils' understanding throughout.
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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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Year 5 GPS Scheme of Work Autumn Block 1 – Ready to Write
This resource is the guidance and small steps for Autumn Block 1 from the free Year 5 GPS Scheme of Work. It is designed to be used in conjunction with your English curriculum and allows you to cover the Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation objectives from the Year 5 National Curriculum.
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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.
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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 identifying noun phrases before moving onto the main skill of expanding noun phrases.
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Interactive Activity
This Year 4 Adjectives, Nouns and Noun Phrases activity checks pupils' understanding of using modifiers to make a noun more specific.
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 5 Expanded Noun Phrases Game checks pupils' understanding of expanded noun phrases and how to use them to give information concisely.
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Flash Cards Activity
These Year 4 Expanded Noun Phrases Flashcards have been designed to help pupils identify noun phrases when presented in sentences.
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Interactive Activity
This Year 4 GPS Using Expanded Noun Phrases activity checks pupils' understanding of adjectives, determiners, modifying nouns and prepositional phrases for expanding noun phrases.
2 Application
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Application and Reasoning
This differentiated worksheet includes application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.
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Mixed Activity
This main activity includes varied fluency, application and reasoning questions for pupils to practise the main skill of expanding noun phrases.
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Application
This application task includes a challenge activity which can be used to further pupils' understanding of the concepts taught in the expanding noun phrases lesson.
2 Homework
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Homework
This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency and application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.
