AC9E2LA07: Understand that in sentences nouns may be extended into noun groups using articles and adjectives, and verbs may be expressed as verb groups

1. Outcome Overview & Core Concepts

A noun group gives more information about a person, place, thing or idea. A verb group can show an action or state using more than one word.

Learning target: understand that in sentences nouns may be extended into noun groups using articles and adjectives, and verbs may be expressed as verb groups

Big idea: Add useful detail around nouns and verbs

Learning routine: Find noun or verb → Add useful words → Read for meaning → Remove unnecessary detail

4. 4-Step Instructional Sequence

2. Subject-Specific Content & Key Examples

Guided practice

1. Sort and notice — Build noun groups by combining article, adjective and noun cards.
2. Build or improve — Improve plain sentences by expanding one noun and one verb.
3. Explain your choice — Use the words noun group, adjective, verb group to explain what you changed and why.

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: identifying nouns that refer to people, places, concrete objects and ideas in sentences in texts, and identifying the articles and adjectives that extend those nouns
• E2: building extended noun groups using articles and adjectives; for example, “the longest side”
• E3: building extended verb groups using verbs; for example, “was touched”
• E4: investigating how noun groups can be built up by asking questions about the noun such as “how many?”, “what’s it like?”, “what type?”; for example, “two pairs of old walking shoes”

3. Common Student Misconceptions

• Adding random adjectives: Choose details that match the noun and purpose.
• Calling every nearby word part of the noun group: Check which words actually describe or identify the noun.
• Answer without evidence: Point to the word, sentence, image, sound pattern or text feature that supports the answer.

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

• What is the noun in ‘the tall tree’?
• Which words expand it?
• Give a two-word verb group.
• Why should details be useful?

Mastery evidence

• Identify nouns
• Build noun groups
• Use articles
• Identify verb groups

Revision Notes

• Remember: Add useful detail around nouns and verbs
• Use the routine: Find noun or verb → Add useful words → Read for meaning → Remove unnecessary detail
• 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.

Curriculum equivalents for That in sentences nouns may be extended into noun groups...

Mapped skill: understand that in sentences nouns may be extended into noun groups using articles and adjectives, and verbs may be expressed as verb groups

These references identify matching or closely related learning. Curriculum sequence, terminology and depth vary, so teachers should use the mapped skill and lesson difficulty to confirm suitability.

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• NSW Curriculum
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