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LIFE/work balance We have started a #LIFEworkbalance campaign and we need your help to complete our LIFE/work balance survey. We hope to publish the results soon, so please give 15 minutes of your time to help us get a true picture of school life. Want to be a part of this campaign? Take the survey on our website and share it with your colleagues! © Classroom Secrets Limited

Year 2 – Autumn Block 3 – Word Classes 1 – What are Nouns? About This Resource: This Power. Point has been designed to support your teaching of this small step. It includes a starter activity and an example of each question from the Varied Fluency and Application and Reasoning resources also provided in this pack. You can choose to work through all examples provided or a selection of them depending on the needs of your class. National Curriculum Objectives: English Year 2: (2 G 3. 2) Learn how to use expanded noun phrases to describe and specify [for example, the blue butterfly, plain flour, the man in the moon] Terminology for pupils: • (2 G 3. 2) noun phrase More resources from our Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling scheme of work. Did you like this resource? Don’t forget to review it on our website. © Classroom Secrets Limited

Year 2 – Autumn Block 3 – Word Classes 1 – What are Nouns? Notes and Guidance • • From Year 1, children should know what a noun is but they may not all be familiar with the term noun. Children should be able to identify common and proper nouns, and that proper nouns need capital letters. Children should learn about collective nouns and how they are used with common nouns, such as a flock of birds, a crowd of people. Children are not expected to know every collective noun as there is a wide variety and some unusual collective nouns, such as a murder of crows. However, they should be able to identify which is the common noun and which is the collective noun. Focused Questions • • • What nouns are used in the following sentence? What type of nouns are used in the following sentence? Identify the common/proper/collective noun in the following sentence. © Classroom Secrets Limited

Year 2 – Autumn Block 3 – Word Classes 1 Step 1: What are Nouns? © Classroom Secrets Limited

Introduction Match the pictures to the words. king © Classroom Secrets Limited herd of cows ball Mrs Jones

Varied Fluency 1 Underline any common nouns in the sentence. Circle any collective nouns in the sentence. Harry put the bundle of sticks next to the tent. © Classroom Secrets Limited

Varied Fluency 2 Tick the sentence that uses a proper noun correctly. I met my Dad at the shop. We went to London for the day. © Classroom Secrets Limited

Varied Fluency 3 Circle any mistakes you can see in the sentence below. Mala and her Friends played in hampton Park. © Classroom Secrets Limited

Varied Fluency 4 Which of the nouns should fill the gap in the sentence below? We watched a ____ of musicians. river © Classroom Secrets Limited Band band

Varied Fluency 4 Which of the nouns should fill the gap in the sentence below? band We watched a ____ of musicians. river © Classroom Secrets Limited Band band

Reasoning 1 Annie has written a sentence. My Grandma is called Winifred. Explain her mistake. © Classroom Secrets Limited

Reasoning 1 Annie has written a sentence. My Grandma is called Winifred. Explain her mistake. Annie has put a capital letter on… © Classroom Secrets Limited

Reasoning 1 Annie has written a sentence. My Grandma is called Winifred. Explain her mistake. Annie has put a capital letter on ‘Grandma’ when it should not have one. It is a common noun in this sentence. © Classroom Secrets Limited

Reasoning 2 Dylan has underlined the nouns in the sentence below. A gang of thieves were caught in York. He thinks he has underlined one proper noun and two common nouns. Is he correct? Explain your answer. © Classroom Secrets Limited

Reasoning 2 Dylan has underlined the nouns in the sentence below. A gang of thieves were caught in York. He thinks he has underlined one proper noun and two common nouns. Is he correct? Explain your answer. Dylan is incorrect, because… © Classroom Secrets Limited

Reasoning 2 Dylan has underlined the nouns in the sentence below. A gang of thieves were caught in York. He thinks he has underlined one proper noun and two common nouns. Is he correct? Explain your answer. Dylan is incorrect, because he has counted ‘gang’ as a common noun, when it is actually a collective noun. © Classroom Secrets Limited

Application 1 Write a sentence that contains one proper noun, one common noun, and one collective noun from the word bank below. © Classroom Secrets Limited Dad peas pack dogs pod dad

Application 1 Write a sentence that contains one proper noun, one common noun, and one collective noun from the word bank below. Dad peas pack dogs pod dad Various answers, for example: Dad ran away from the pack of dogs. © Classroom Secrets Limited