Year 4 · SPaG · Nouns and pronouns
Year 4 noun types together worksheet and PowerPoint
To practise together: recognising nouns; recognising pronouns; using pronouns; pronoun or noun?.
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.
| Recognising nouns | Common, proper, collective and abstract nouns. |
|---|---|
| Recognising pronouns | Finding pronouns and saying whether they are personal or possessive, singular or plural. |
| Using pronouns | Choosing the right pronoun and replacing nouns with pronouns. |
| Pronoun or noun? | Deciding when to use a noun and when a pronoun makes the writing clearer. |
Key words
- 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
- pronoun
- takes the place of a noun
- personal pronoun
- I, you, he, she, it, we, they, me, him, her, us, them
- possessive pronoun
- mine, yours, his, hers, ours, theirs
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 noun types together PowerPoint.
Where this lesson fits
This is lesson 27 of 60 in the Year 4 SPaG scheme, in the block “Nouns and pronouns”.
Other lessons in this block
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