English Year 2 Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas

Understand that nouns represent people, places, things and ideas and include common, proper, concrete or abstract, and that noun groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectives

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  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    English Unit: Nifty Nouns

    This comprehensive and detailed unit plan is designed to support students in their understanding of nouns. The unit contains a presentation...

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    English Unit: Noun Groups

    This unit has been put together to support students in grasping the concept of noun groups. It supports them to create extended noun groups...

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    English Unit: Articles

    This unit is great for defining what an article is and how it is used within a sentence to create a ‘noun group’. The unit also provides opp...

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    English Unit: Proper Nouns

    This unit gives a great overview of what a proper noun is, as well how a proper noun differs from a common noun. The unit provides visual ex...

  • Unit Plan Year: 2

    English Unit: Adjectives

    This resource is to be used in conjunction with the Year 2 Adjectives Unit. This resource assists in consolidating skills in their understan...

  • Presentation Year: 2

    Nifty Nouns - Presentation

    This comprehensive presentation has been created to guide students through understanding that nouns name people, places, animals, concrete o...

  • Presentation Year: 2

    Noun Groups - Presentation

    This presentation has been put together to support students in grasping the concept of noun groups. It provides many examples of noun groups...

  • Presentation Year: 2

    Articles - Presentation

    This presentation was created as a part of our articles unit to teach students what an article is, and how it is used within a sentence to c...

  • Presentation Year: 2

    Proper Nouns - Presentation

    Proper Nouns - Presentation

  • Presentation Year: 2

    Adjectives - Presentation

    The Action Verbs Presentation introduces students to the concept of adjectives. It includes a definition with examples, as well as a variety...

  • Presentation Year: F 1 2

    5 Senses Word Cline - Presentation

    A presentation to support the Teach This Word Cline lesson plan.  Use the presentation to support a lesson with your class about word cli...

  • Resource Year: 1 2

    Punctuation Cards - Lower Primary

    The Punctuation Cards – Lower Primary set contains 10 double-sided cards with sentence correction tasks focused on capital letters, full sto...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Synonym Poster

    This poster provides a clear and concise guide to synonyms, helping students understand how words that means precisely or nearly the same as...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Antonyms Poster

    This poster provides a clear and concise guide to antonyms, helping students understand how words with opposite meanings function in languag...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Sentence Building Strips

    Master Sentence Construction with Interactive Sentence Building Strips!The Sentence Building Strips Pack provides a comprehensive and engagi...

  • Resource Year: 1 2

    Language Features Posters – Lower Primary

    These posters were created to support student learning of Language Features. They feature a description and a clear example, in bright rainb...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +1

    Build a Better Sentence- Colour Version

    This resource is a must have for any primary school classroom. This activity will scaffold students to build better and more descriptive sen...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Writing Word Prompts

    Encourage writing in your classroom with these word cards. These can be used in a variety of ways, ranging from a visual dictionary, as writ...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Nifty Nouns Assessment

    This resource has been designed to assess students’ understanding of the different types of nouns. The assessment asks students to identify...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Noun Pop

    This fun worksheet asks students to colour the noun according to one of five noun types- person, place, animal, thing or feeling. An answer...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Nifty Nouns - Student Reference Card

    These student reference cards are fitted two to a page and should be cut in half. They provide students with a reference for the different t...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Noun Groups Quiz

    Use this quiz to assess your students’ ability to identify and compose noun groups in Year 2.   

  • Resource Year: 2

    Exploring Noun Groups

    This worksheet supports students to create noun groups. Students first identify the noun groups within sentences, add their own noun groups...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Nautical Noun Groups

    This worksheet supports students to create noun groups in a fun and supportive way. It is nautical themed and provides students with the opp...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Noun Groups Mix Up

    This worksheet supports students to create noun groups in a fun and supportive way.   

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Noun Groups - Student Reference Card

    These handy reference cards can be given to students to refer to when learning about noun groups. They provide a clear definition as well as...

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4

    Noun Groups Poster

    Display this handy poster in your classroom that provides a definition and examples of noun groups to support your students in developing th...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3

    Look and Write Cards - Narrative Prompts

    The Look and Write resource cards have been created to encourage students to create extended noun groups, as well as extend their descriptio...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3

    Eggtastic Parts of Speech

    Students will progress around the game board identifying whether each word is a noun, verb or adjective.  It includes a challenge level f...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Proper and Common Noun Sort D

    This worksheet is great practise for identifying proper nouns and distinguishing them from a common noun. In this worksheet, you will practi...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Proper and Common Noun Sort C

    This worksheet is great practise for identifying proper nouns and distinguishing them from a common noun. In this worksheet, you will practi...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Proper and Common Noun Sort B

    This worksheet is great practise for identifying proper nouns and distinguishing them from a common noun. In this worksheet, you will practi...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Proper and Common Noun Sort A

    This worksheet is great practise for identifying proper nouns and distinguishing them from a common noun. In this worksheet, you will practi...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Proper and Common Nouns D

    This worksheet is great practise for identifying proper nouns and distinguishing them from a common noun. In this worksheet, you will practi...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Proper and Common Nouns C

    This worksheet is great practise for identifying proper nouns and distinguishing them from a common noun. In this worksheet, you will practi...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Proper and Common Nouns B

    This worksheet is great practise for identifying proper nouns and distinguishing them from a common noun. In this worksheet, you will practi...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Proper and Common Nouns A

    This worksheet is great practise for identifying proper nouns and distinguishing them from a common noun. In this worksheet, you will practi...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Articles Practice

    This worksheet was created as a part of our Articles unit to teach students what an article is, and how it is used within a sentence to crea...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Articles Assessment

    This worksheet was created as a part of our Articles unit to teach students what an article is, and how it is used within a sentence to crea...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Awesome Articles

    This resource was created as a part of our Articles unit to teach students what an article is, and how it is used within a sentence to creat...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Articles - Adventure Game

    This resource was created as a part of our Articles unit to teach students what an article is, and how it is used within a sentence to creat...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Articles - Quiz

    This resource was created as a part of our Articles unit to teach students what an article is, and how it is used within a sentence to creat...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Articles - Race

    This worksheet was created as a part of our Articles unit to teach students what an article is, and how it is used within a sentence to crea...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Articles - Cut & Paste

    This worksheet was created as a part of our Articles unit to teach students what an article is, and how it is used within a sentence to crea...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Articles - A or An

    This worksheet was created as a part of our Articles unit to teach students what an article is, and how it is used within a sentence to crea...

  • Resource Year: 2 4

    Articles - A, An or The

    This worksheet was created as a part of our Articles unit to teach students what an article is, and how it is used within a sentence to crea...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Articles - Student Reference Card

    This student reference card was created as a part of our Articles unit to teach students what an article is, and how it is used within a sen...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Articles Poster

    This resource was created as a part of our Articles unit to teach students what an article is, and how it is used within a sentence to creat...

  • Resource Year: P F 1 2

    Fairy Tale Nouns and Adjectives Board Game

    This game is designed to practise building descriptive vocabulary and understanding the purpose of a noun and an adjective.

  • Resource Year: 2

    Proper Nouns - Assessment

    This assessment is great for identifying student’s knowledge of proper nouns and what they may need to go back to review to reinforce their...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Proper Nouns - Roll A Row Game

    This fun dice game was developed to help students identify proper nouns, and to understand that capital letters signal proper nouns.  

  • Resource Year: 2

    Proper Nouns - Editing

    This worksheet is great practise for identifying proper nouns and distinguishing them from a common noun. In this worksheet, you will practi...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Proper Nouns - Quiz

    The Proper Noun Quiz is an auto-timed quiz that requires students to find the Proper Noun in a variety of sentences. You can run this as an...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Proper Noun Practice

    This worksheet is great practise for identifying proper nouns and distinguishing them from a common noun. In this worksheet, you will practi...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Proper Nouns or Common Nouns Game

    This is a great game for identifying that a proper noun is either a person or place and requires a capital letter.

  • Resource Year: 2

    Proper Nouns Worksheet

    This worksheet is great practise for identifying proper nouns and distinguishing them from a common noun. In this worksheet, you will practi...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Proper Nouns - Student Reference Card

    Proper Nouns - Student Reference Card

  • Resource Year: 2

    Adjectives - Assessment

    Assess students' proficiency in using adjectives with this comprehensive assessment resource. Students will encounter various tasks and exer...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Adjectives

    Expand students' vocabulary and descriptive abilities with this engaging resource focused on adjectives.

  • Resource Year: 2

    Adjectives

    Enhance students' understanding of adjectives with this comprehensive resource.

  • Resource Year: 2

    Adjectives - Student Reference Card

    Provide students with a handy reference card to support their learning of adjectives. This reference card includes definitions, examples, an...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Word Cline Worksheet

    Worksheets to support the Teach This Word Cline lesson plan.  Use these worksheets to have a go at creating word clines. Students will le...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    5 Senses Word Cline

    A lesson plan designed to teach your class about word clines.  Use the lesson plan to support a lesson with your class about word clines....

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Proper Nouns

    This worksheet is great practise for identifying proper nouns and distinguishing them from a common noun. In this worksheet, you will practi...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Pronouns

    Improve students' understanding and usage of pronouns with this comprehensive resource.

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Common Nouns

    Introduce students to the concept of common nouns with this informative resource. Students will learn about common nouns, which are general...

  • Worksheet Year: 2

    Adjective Hunt

    Ignite students' curiosity and boost their descriptive writing skills with this interactive adjective hunt activity.

  • Worksheet Year: 2 3

    Comparatives

    Comparative adjectives are used to compare two things. This worksheet has been designed as a tool for students to practise comparing adjecti...

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Article Attraction - a or an

    As students move around the board, they will be required to specify whether the correct article used in front of a particular noun should be...

  • Resource Year: 2

    Pronoun Parade - Identifying Pronouns Boardgame

    Engage students in a fun and interactive board game that reinforces their understanding of pronouns. This resource promotes grammar skills a...

  • Resource Year: 1 2

    Nouns In Candy Town - Identifying Nouns Boardgame

    What is a noun? 'Nouns in Candy Town' requires students to read words and then state whether or not that word is a common noun. 

  • Resource Year: 2 3

    Comparatives - Poster

    Comparative adjectives are used to compare two things. This poster has been designed as a tool for students to access when creating texts an...

  • Resource Year: 2 4 5

    Muddled Monsters - Descriptive Writing Activity

    Students will mix and match monster body parts before writing a detailed character description.

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Superhero - Parts Of Speech Posters

    This set of posters brings parts of speech to life in a bright, colourful and fun presentation. 

  • Resource Year: 2 3 4

    Pancake Pronouns

    In Pancake Pronouns, students will learn to identify the pronoun that is missing in each sentence as they move around the game board.

  • Resource Year: 2

    Create a Noun Group Activity Cards

    This is a class-set of Noun Group Activity Cards, designed for Year 2 and 3 students. This activity is perfect for reading rotations, fast f...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 4

    Adjective Activity Cards

    Students will learn how a sentence can be made more vivid by adding adjectives. They will create a description using adjectives and a noun.

  • Resource Year: 2 4

    Common Noun Activity Cards - Lvl 2

    Students will consolidate their understanding that common nouns represent people, places, concrete objects and abstract concepts. This se...

  • Resource Year: 1 2

    Common Noun Activity Cards - Lvl 1

    Students will consolidate their understanding that common nouns represent people, places, animals and things. This set of activity cards...

  • Resource Year: P F 1 2 +3

    Sentence Builder

    The Sentence Builder Pack is a complete resource designed to help students create correct and engaging sentences. It includes four different...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Parts Of Speech Posters Traditional

    The Parts of Speech posters include the followingL Nouns, Noun Groups, Qualifiers, Adjectives, Verbs, Verb Groups, Adverbs, Adverb Groups, P...

  • Resource Year: 1 2

    Order Of Adjectives Posters

    The 'Order of Adjectives' Posters were created by request and include: Opinion Adjectives, Size Adjectives, Age Adjectives, Shape Adjectives...

  • Resource Year: 1 2

    Nouns Around

    This is a very simple game asking students to move around a game board naming common nouns beginning with the letter on which they land. Thi...

  • Resource Year: 1 2

    Christmas Grammar Bingo

    Identify nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs in this special Christmas bingo game. It's a fun game created for groups of 4 players.

  • Resource Year: 2 4 5

    Noun Groups Game

    In this game, students will read a sentence out loud and identify the nouns and noun groups within the sentence. It is a simple game suitabl...

  • Resource Year: 2 4

    Abstract Noun Race Game

    Identify abstract nouns in this easy to play board game for upper primary students. In this game, students read a sentence out loud and iden...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4

    Pick the Pronouns Game

    In "Pick the Pronouns", students are presented with a choice of words from which they must identify the pronoun.

  • Resource Year: 1 2

    Sight Word Splat - Dolch Nouns

    This game is lots of fun and works with the Dolch nouns set of sight words. It is an exciting game that motivates students of all ages.

  • Resource Year: 1 2

    Tower of Power - Parts of Speech Game

    Consolidate knowledge of nouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs, proper nouns and pronouns in this game of challenge. Level 1 - Nouns, Adjective...

  • FREE! Resource Year: 1 2

    Household Nouns

    These flashcards list common nouns along with a matching picture. They are suitable to attach to each part of the house or classroom and are...

  • Resource Year: 1 2

    Dolch Nouns Flashcards with Illustrated

    This selection of flashcards contains each of the Dolch Nouns wordlist with a matching image.

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +1

    Grammar Charts - Black and White

    This resource includes descriptions of Conjunctions, Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives. These worksheets are suitable to hand to students as a gui...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3

    Grammar Posters

    This resource includes descriptions of Conjunctions, Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives. These charts are useful guides for students who are still...

  • Resource Year: 1 2

    Descriptive Pathways - Adjective Game

    In this game students are required to identify adjectives as they manoevre their way through the squares to complete the game.

  • Resource Year: 1 2

    Functional Grammar Charts

    These charts define and provide examples of Process, Participant and Circumstance.

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3

    Grammar Charts

    Six A4 charts featuring Proper Nouns, Common Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs, Adverbs and Pronouns. Each chart provides a definition of the term al...

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