ACELA1508
Understand how noun groups/phrases and adjective groups/phrases can be expanded in a variety of ways to provide a fuller description of the person, place, thing or idea
Elaborations
- learning how to expand a description by combining a related set of nouns and adjectives - 'Two old brown cattle dogs sat on the ruined front veranda of the deserted house' (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
- observing how descriptive details can be built up around a noun or an adjective, forming a group/phrase (for example, 'this very smelly cleaning cloth in the sink' is a noun group/phrase and 'as pretty as the flowers in May' is an adjective group/phrase) (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
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Glorious Grammar Volume 1 - Worksheet Book
50 activities in one booklet which all revolve around learning grammar in the classroom.
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Identifying Descriptive Language Worksheets - Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs and Adverbs
A set of 5 worksheets to help your students identify descriptive language in narrative texts.
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Identifying Descriptive and Figurative Language Worksheets
Help your students identify descriptive and figurative language in narrative texts with this set of colour-coding worksheets.
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Types of Verbs Poster Set
Explore the different types of verbs with this set of verb posters displaying the definition and examples of action, saying, thinking and relating verbs.
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Types of Clauses Posters
A set of five posters examining the structure of independent and dependent clauses.
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Imagine Conjunctions Worksheet
Spark students' creativity with this conjunctions worksheet containing four images to prompt students to write compound sentences.
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Partner Sentence Challenge Worksheet
A teaching resource to help students consolidate the students’ knowledge of grammar and brainstorm vocabulary for writing.
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Everyday Grammar Parts of Speech Warm Ups - Upper Years Interactive PowerPoint
Learn and consolidate noun groups, adjectival phrases, adverbial phrases and more with this 44-slide interactive PowerPoint.
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Spelling Sentence Challenge Worksheet
A teaching resource to help consolidate their current spelling program and grammar use.
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Adjective Grammar Card Game – Flip It!
A fun game for students to play in small groups to consolidate their understanding of adjectives.
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Parts of Speech Poster
A poster introducing students to nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and adverbial phrases.
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Proper Nouns Crossword Puzzle - Worksheet
A crossword researching different proper nouns.
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Sorting Nouns - Worksheet
A cut and arrange activity which involves students using their grammar skill to sort through nouns and categorise them.
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Hansel and Gretel and the Pronoun Hunt - Worksheet
Students get to use ideas in the classic story of Hansel and Gretel to think about pronouns.
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Paragraph Study Grammar Interactive PowerPoint
Interactive PowerPoint presentation allowing teachers and students to learn and revise grammar by highlighting paragraphs.
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Preposition Monkey Business - Worksheet
A worksheet which includes an image prompt for students to make creative sentences about prepositions.
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Colour Adjectives - Worksheet
A worksheet activity designed to help prompt students to be more descriptive when describing nouns with colours.
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How to Make Pancakes: Article Edition - Worksheet
A procedure text for students to read about how to make pancakes with the articles removed for students to fill in.
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Five Wonders Theme Park: Fresh Start – Project
A project for students to use their literacy skills and creativity to rebrand Five Wonders Theme Park.
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Coordinating Conjunctions Dice Game
Use this hands on activity for students to create two 8 sided-dice and write compound sentences using coordinating conjunctions.
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Grammar Sentence Challenge Worksheet
Practise using different parts of speech in a written piece of text with this grammar activity.
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Parts of Speech Word Cards Sorting Activity
Engage your students with this parts of speech group activity where they sort 112 word cards into categories (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, coordinating conjunctions or prepositions).
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Grammar TVs
Grammar presented on TVs.
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Common Nouns in Your House - Worksheet
Two activities that help students think about common nouns.
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Common Noun Upgrade - Worksheet
A worksheet for students to learn about times when typical common nouns become proper nouns.
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Net Trap Game: Articles - Worksheet
A risky elimination game to help students engage with their grammar skills with articles.
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Nouns and Things - Worksheet
A worksheet to help students use more descriptive nouns in their writing.
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Grammar and Punctuation Tails - Active Learning
An active game that requires students to use their basic grammar and punctuation knowledge.
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Parts of Speech Card Game – Upper Years Classroom Game – Set 2
A card game for nouns, verbs and adjectives.
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The Three Little Pigs and Their Article Mess - Worksheet
A reading exercise of the classic story of The Three Little Pigs with incorrect articles students need to fix.
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Global Proper Nouns - Worksheet
A mapping activity that prompts students to use their grammar knowledge of proper nouns.
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Plotting Prepositions Net Game - Worksheet
A fun guessing risk game that gives students the opportunity to engage with prepositions.