Year 5 · SPaG · Noun phrases
Year 5 concise noun phrases together worksheet and PowerPoint
To practise together: recognising noun phrases; creating concise noun phrases; writing concise noun phrases; using noun phrases.
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 noun phrases | Finding the noun phrase in a sentence and saying how it has been expanded. |
|---|---|
| Creating concise noun phrases | Putting the detail into one noun phrase instead of several short sentences. |
| Writing concise noun phrases | Writing expanded noun phrases with adjectives and prepositional phrases that say a lot in a few words. |
| Using noun phrases | Choosing and writing noun phrases that give the reader the right detail. |
Key words
- noun phrase
- a noun with the words that go with it
- expanded noun phrase
- a noun phrase with extra detail added
- adjective
- a word that describes a noun
- prepositional phrase
- starts with a preposition: in the garden
- concise
- short and clear, with no wasted words
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 concise noun phrases together PowerPoint.
Where this lesson fits
This is lesson 32 of 43 in the Year 5 SPaG scheme, in the block “Noun phrases”.
Other lessons in this block
- Expanded noun phrases
- Recognising noun phrases
- Creating concise noun phrases
- Writing concise noun phrases
- Using noun phrases
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