Year 2 English · AC9E2LA07

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

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

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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

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2. Subject-Specific Content & Key Examples

Expand a noun and a verb

thesmall browndogwas barking

Articles and adjectives build the noun group; was barking is a verb group.

Choose details that help the reader

a bright red kitethe two noisy parrotsis jumpinghas finished

Details should be accurate and useful, not simply numerous.

Sort and notice

Build noun groups by combining article, adjective and noun cards.

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.
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AC9E2LA07 - Understand that in sentences nouns may be extended into noun groups using articles and adjectives, and verbs may be expressed as verb groups
Example 1

the small brown dog was barking

Example 2

a bright red kite the two noisy parrots is jumping has finished

Example 3

Expand a noun and a verb the small brown dog was barking Articles and adjectives build the noun group; was barking is a verb group.

Example 4

Choose details that help the reader a bright red kite the two noisy parrots is jumping has finished Details should be accurate and useful, not simply numerous.

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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: 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”
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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.
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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
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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

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