Year 4 - Expanded Noun Phrases - teaching resource

Year 4 - Expanded Noun Phrases

(a 61-slide fully editable PowerPoint presentation with 4 worksheets)

Expanded Noun Phrases – Year 4 is a fun and engaging way of teaching learners how to use expanded noun phrases to improve their writing. The resource contains a range of activities such as: 

- Definition and examples of noun phrases and expanded noun phrases

- An explanation, with examples, of how expanded noun phrases are constructed using a determiner, noun and adjectives 

- Activities to help children identify expanded noun phrases

- Tasks which teach children how to use expanded noun phrases to improve written work.

The resource covers key skills set out in the National Curriculum Year 4 English Programme of Study for Writing – Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation – ‘pupils should be taught to develop their understanding of noun phrases expanded by the addition of modifying adjectives’.

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