Understanding word classes in primary

Noun, adjectives, verb and adverb resources you can use with your primary pupils

Tes Resources Team

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Get to grips with word classes with this selection of lessons, activities and worksheets for KS1 and KS2 pupils 

Whether you're learning to identify the four major word classes in a sentence or looking at nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs in isolation, we've hand-picked a range of resources you could use with your primary pupils. From lessons and presentations to activities, worksheets and games, here are a selection of resources teachers in the Tes community have created.

Lessons and presentations

Nouns
lindylovestoteach

Nouns

£2.75
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Nouns - Common Nouns and Proper Nouns (PowerPoint & Worksheets). Nouns are easy to teach when you use this interactive and entertaining PowerPoint! Students discover what nouns are through games and exercises. This PowerPoint introduces common and proper nouns to students. They have to even...
Word Classes: Resource Pack
Rachel Swarbrick

Word Classes: Resource Pack

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This resource covers the four main word classes: noun, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. This is designed as an intervention for year 5 and 6 pupils who need to improve their word class knowledge. There is an interactive Powerpoint and a worksheet for each lesson. The lesson helps pupils progress qui...
Types of Nouns
PateResources

Types of Nouns

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This is a nineteen slide PowerPoint that accompanies a YouTube video series which can be found [here](http://bit.ly/3eXkrtg). This PowerPoint looks at five different types of nouns (proper noun, concrete noun, pronoun, abstract noun and collective noun) and aims to help students identify the differ...
Types of Nouns
Online_Teaching_Resources

Types of Nouns

£2.50
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Types of Nouns English SPaG Teaching Resource In 'Types of Nouns' pupils practise recognising common and proper nouns. Content includes: * An animated PowerPoint presentation * Activities to support the teaching of this objective with two accompanying worksheets 'Types of Nouns' is fully editabl...

Worksheets and posters

ALL ABOUT ADJECTIVES
Lynn Lettice

ALL ABOUT ADJECTIVES

£4.95
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This book concentrates on the understanding and use of adjectives: it improves grammatical awareness and encourages pupils to add information and interest to texts. Sheets look at meanings and definitions as well as asking pupils to group and classify adjectives. All About Adjectives is suitable f...
Common and Proper Nouns
WeRLearning

Common and Proper Nouns

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A fun worksheet which reinforces which nouns can be classified as proper or common. Perfect for homework or a starter activity.
Word Class Challenge
frazert2

Word Class Challenge

£1.00
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A series of *differentiated* sentence building activities focused on word class. These include articles, adjectives, verbs, nouns, subjects, adverbs, conjunctions and prepositions. The aim of the activity is to encourage children to see patterns in word classes and how they are organised within a se...