Year 3 · SPaG · Nouns and noun phrases
Year 3 using different types of nouns worksheet and PowerPoint
To practise together: noun phrases; types of nouns; recognising abstract nouns; using abstract nouns.
What this sheet covers
Each question comes from one of the lessons below. If a question is tricky, look back at that lesson’s sheet and slides.
| Noun phrases | A noun with a determiner and adjectives: the old wooden door. |
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| Types of nouns | Common, proper and collective nouns. |
| Recognising abstract nouns | Telling abstract nouns, such as bravery, from concrete nouns, such as table. |
| Using abstract nouns | Making abstract nouns from adjectives and using them in sentences. |
Key words
- noun phrase
- a noun and the words that go with it
- determiner
- a word like the, a, my or two
- adjective
- a word that describes a noun
- noun
- a naming word
- common noun
- names ordinary things
- proper noun
- names a particular person, place or day: starts with a capital
- collective noun
- names a group
- abstract noun
- names an idea or feeling
What is on the worksheet
Every sheet for this lesson has a short teaching box and 12 questions that get gradually harder: 8 fluency questions, then 4 reasoning questions that ask pupils to explain or choose. A writing challenge follows. The questions use the same styles as the key stage 2 grammar and punctuation test (circle, underline, tick, fill the gap, add punctuation, rewrite, explain). They are written for this website, not copied from past papers.
All the answers are on the last page of the same editable Word file. New questions are made every time, so you can print a different sheet for every group or for homework. The same sheet code always gives the same sheet.
Writing challenge: Choose the lesson from this sheet that you found hardest. Write three new questions of your own for a friend, with an answer sheet, then swap and mark each other’s work.
Pupil target: I can remember what I have learned and use it.
The PowerPoint
A 20-slide lesson deck for the same lesson: a starter that revisits earlier learning, key words, an I do and a You do question on each slide with a countdown timer, answers that appear one click at a time, and a challenge. Download the using different types of nouns PowerPoint.
Where this lesson fits
This is lesson 40 of 53 in the Year 3 SPaG scheme, in the block “Nouns and noun phrases”.
Other lessons in this block
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