Y4 Grammar Punctuation and Spelling

Pronoun or Noun Lesson

This Pronoun or Noun? lesson covers the prior learning of Recognising Pronouns before moving onto the main skill of identifying whether a noun or pronoun is needed within a sentence.

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. 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: (4G1.5) Choosing nouns or pronouns appropriately for clarity and cohesion and to avoid repetition

English Year 4: (4G1.5) Appropriate choice of pronoun or noun within and across sentences to aid cohesion and avoid repetition

Terminology for pupils:

(4G1.5) pronoun
(4G1.5a) possessive pronoun

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Lesson Slides

Lesson Slides

These lesson slides guide pupils through the prior learning of recognising common, collective and abstract nouns before moving onto the main skill of pronouns. 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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Year 4 GPS Scheme of Work Autumn Block 2 – Pronouns

Year 4 GPS Scheme of Work Autumn Block 2 – Pronouns

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 4 small steps with guidance for teaching. 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 4 National Curriculum.

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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.

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Video Tutorial

Video Tutorial

In this Pronouns Video Tutorial, Laura shows pupils how to improve their writing by using pronouns to replace nouns.

1 Prior Learning

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Prior Learning Activity

Prior Learning Activity

This Noun or Pronoun? Prior Learning Activity recaps the prior learning of recognising pronouns before moving onto the main skill of identifying whether a noun or pronoun is needed.

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Interactive Activity

Interactive Activity

This Year 4 Pronouns Game includes five questions designed to check pupils' understanding of how to use and recognise pronouns in sentences for clarity and cohesion.

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Matching Activity

Matching Activity

This Year 4 Pronouns Matching Cards Game checks pupils' understanding of using pronouns to avoid repetition.

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Flashcards Activity

Flashcards Activity

These Year 4 Pronouns Flashcards include ten questions which ask children to identify the pronoun or choose an appropriate pronoun to complete the sentence.

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 4 Pronoun or Noun? Game is designed to check pupils' understanding of pronouns and nouns.

2 Application

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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.

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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 identifying whether a pronoun or noun is needed.

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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 Pronoun or Noun? lesson.

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.