Noun Groups

A practical grammar resource that helps students add detail and create clearer, more interesting writing.

Students explore how noun groups work and learn to build them by adding carefully chosen words and phrases around a noun. Through discussion, sentence building and writing activities, students experiment with noun groups and consider how much detail is useful.

Students will:

• identify noun groups in sentences and texts

• understand the different words that can form a noun group

• expand simple nouns with meaningful detail

• use noun groups to create clearer and more vivid writing

• refine noun groups by adding, removing or changing details

What's included:

• Learning Intention and Success Criteria

• noun groups anchor chart

• 6 open-ended activities

• Noun Group Makeover activity

• How Much Is Too Much? reasoning activity

• opportunities for speaking, writing and collaborative learning

5-page printable PDF digital download.