Year 5 and 6 - Expanded Noun Phrases - teaching resource

Year 5/6 - Expanded Noun Phrases  

(a 44-slide fully editable PowerPoint presentation with 4 worksheets) 

Year 5/6 Expanded Noun Phrases explains how to use expanded noun phrases to improve descriptive writing. The resource contains a range of activities such as: 

- Definitions and examples of noun phrases, simple expanded noun phrases and complex expanded noun phrases

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

- Activities to help children identify complex expanded noun phrases

- Tasks which teach children how to use complex expanded noun phrases to improve written work using word banks and images for support.

The resource covers key skills set out in the National Curriculum Year 5/6 English Programme of Study for Writing – Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation – ‘pupils should be taught to use expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely.’

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