This powerful KS1 grammar resources pack provides everything you need to teach a series of five lessons on nouns, including identifying proper nouns, in Year 2, culminating in an extended writing task where children can use their grammatical understanding in context.
This primary resource pack includes:
Nouns PowerPoint
With explanations, examples and activities to introduce this topic to your class
Noun PDF cards
To use within an activity as part of the teaching sequence and to display in the classroom
Challenge sheet
Circle the nouns, add nouns to sentences, write sentences for the given nouns, rewrite sentences, replacing the nouns with ones that are more precise, and use the image provided to write sentences that contain a range of nouns
Uplevelling sheet
Rewrite the sentences to make them more interesting using knowledge gained through earlier teaching points
Writing plan
Includes an image and writing prompts to plan a diary
Writing paper
For pupils to write their final draft
Teacher’s notes
Providing guidance for the activities
What is a noun?
Nouns identify a person, place, object, idea or emotion.
They can be concrete (e.g. girl, book, kitchen), abstract (e.g. dream, anger), proper (e.g. Lizzie, London, Monday), or common (e.g. boy, day, school).
National Curriculum English programme of study links
Pupils should be taught to use and understand the grammatical terminology in English Appendix 2 in discussing their writing.