This Year 5 Recognising Noun Phrases Prior Learning worksheet is fantastic resource to use to assess children's understanding of using different types of nouns before moving on to focusing on noun phrases. With three varied fluency, two reasoning and one application question, children are asked to match nouns to their correct type as well as explain which sentences have used abstract nouns correctly.

Use this resource as a way to assess children's prior knowledge before moving on or alternatively, this could be used for those children who are less confident with nouns.