Year 1 English · AC9E1LA07

Understand that words can represent people, places and things (nouns

understand that words can represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when…

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1. Outcome Overview & Core Concepts

Words have different jobs: nouns name people, places or things; verbs show happenings or states; adjectives describe; adverbs add detail such as when, where or how.

Learning target: understand that words can represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs)

Big idea: Notice what jobs words do in sentences

Learning routine: Read sentence → Find word → Ask its job → Name word class

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2. Subject-Specific Content & Key Examples

Word job cards

noun: dogverb: runsadjective: brownadverb: quickly

Worked example

Question: In “The small bird sang”, which word describes the bird? Small is an adjective because it tells what the bird is like.

Ask the job question

Who/what? → nounWhat happens? → verbWhat kind? → adjectiveHow/when/where? → adverb

Word job sort

Sort word cards by job.

Guided practice

  1. Word job sort — Sort word cards by job.
    jump / tree / soft / slowly
  2. Build a richer sentence — Add an adjective or adverb to a simple sentence.
    The dog runs → The brown dog runs quickly.
  3. Find in reading — Pick one sentence and mark a noun and a verb.
    Mia paints.
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AC9E1LA07 - Understand that words can represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs)
Example 1

Word job cards noun: dog verb: runs adjective: brown adverb: quickly

Example 2

Worked example Question: In “The small bird sang”, which word describes the bird? Small is an adjective because it tells what the bird is like.

Example 3

Ask the job question Who/what? → noun What happens? → verb What kind? → adjective How/when/where? → adverb

Example 4

Word job sort Sort word cards by job.

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Curriculum Coverage & Elaborations

The content description is the required target. The elaborations below are taught as examples and contexts, not as disconnected checklist wording.

  • E1: understanding that words or groups of words can represent the participants (nouns; for example, people, places, things) that are involved in various activities or processes (verbs of doing, saying, thinking, being) and the details or circumstances surrounding the activity (adjectives and adverbs that answer “when?”, “where?”, “how?”)
  • E2: recognising how a sentence can be made more specific by adding adjectives, adverbs and precise verbs
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Revision Notes

  • Remember: Notice what jobs words do in sentences
  • Use the routine: Read sentence → Find word → Ask its job → Name word class
  • Before answering: point to the clue in the spoken words, written sentence, image, page layout or text purpose.
  • Self-check: change the example slightly and see whether the same reasoning still works.
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3. Common Student Misconceptions

  • Word meaning only: Ask what job the word does in the sentence.
  • Adjective as noun: A describing word needs something to describe.
  • Missing verbs: Find what happens or what is.

Practice Thought & Formative Assessment

Use a fresh, code-aligned example. The student should show the exact word, sound, sentence, image feature, audience clue or text evidence that supports the answer.

Quick checks

  • Name the noun in: The cat sleeps.
  • Name the verb in: Sam jumps.
  • Which word describes: red ball?
  • Add an adverb to: The dog ran.

Mastery evidence

  • Find nouns
  • Find verbs
  • Find adjectives
  • Find adverbs
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1. Outcome Overview & Core Concepts

Words have different jobs: nouns name people, places or things; verbs show happenings or states; adjectives describe; adverbs add detail such as when, where or how.

Learning target: understand that words can represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs)

Big idea: Notice what jobs words do in sentences

Learning routine: Read sentence → Find word → Ask its job → Name word class

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