Year 5 · SPaG · Noun phrases
Year 5 using noun phrases worksheet and PowerPoint
To use noun phrases with two adjectives, and with a prepositional phrase, to give detail in a sentence.
Noun phrases
A noun phrase is a noun and the words that go with it. We can expand it with adjectives before the noun and a prepositional phrase after it. A good writer packs the detail into the noun phrase and keeps it concise.
| adjectives | before the noun: the tall, thin man |
|---|---|
| prepositional phrase | after the noun: the man in the doorway |
| both | the tall, thin man in the doorway waved |
| concise | one sentence with the detail inside the noun phrase, not three short sentences |
Examples
- The dog was brown. The dog was shaggy. The dog barked. → The brown, shaggy dog barked.
- I saw a bird with a yellow beak.
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: Describe a room in a story. Write six sentences, each with an expanded noun phrase of two adjectives and a noun, and add a prepositional phrase to three of them.
Pupil target: I can use noun phrases to give detail.
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 noun phrases PowerPoint.
Where this lesson fits
This is lesson 31 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
- Concise noun phrases together
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