Y4 Grammar Punctuation and Spelling
This Year 4 Using Expanded Noun Phrases lesson covers the prior learning of identifying prepositions before moving onto the main skill of using expanded 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 Objectives
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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This teaching PowerPoint guides pupils through the prior learning of what is a preposition? before moving onto the main skill of using expanded noun phrases. There are some modelled varied fluency and application and reasoning questions included at the end.
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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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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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This prior learning activity recaps the prior learning of what is a preposition? before moving onto the main skill of using expanded noun phrases.
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This Year 3 What is a Preposition? Game is designed to check pupils’ ability to recognise prepositions in sentences.
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This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency questions for pupils to support the teaching of this step.
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This Year 4 Determiners and Prepositional Phrases activity comprises questions designed to test pupils’ understanding of determiners and prepositional phrases.
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This application task includes a challenge activity which can be used to further pupils' understanding of the concepts taught in the using expanded noun phrases lesson.
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This main activity includes varied fluency, reasoning and application questions for pupils to practise the main skill of using expanded noun phrases.
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This differentiated worksheet includes application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.
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This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency and application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.