This resource includes descriptions of Conjunctions, Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives. These worksheets are suitable to hand to students as a guide when introducing these grammatical features of text.
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)
Understand that in sentences nouns may be extended into noun groups using articles and adjectives, and verbs may be expressed as verb groups
Understand how verbs represent different processes for doing, feeling, thinking, saying and relating
Understand that verbs are anchored in time through tense
Understand past, present and future tenses and their impact on meaning in a sentence
Identify how text connectives including temporal and conditional words, and topic word associations are used to sequence and connect ideas
Explore differences in words that represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs)
Understand that nouns represent people, places, concrete objects and abstract concepts; that there are three types of nouns: common, proper and pronouns; and that noun groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectives
Understand that verbs represent different processes, for example: doing, thinking, saying, and relating and that these processes are anchored in time through tense
Understand how texts are made cohesive through the use of linking devices including pronoun reference and text connectives
Understand conventions for citing others, and how to reference these in different ways
Uses basic grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary appropriate to the type of text when responding to and composing texts
Draws on an increasing range of skills and strategies to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on less familiar topics in different media and technologies
Uses effective and accurate sentence structure, grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary relevant to the type of text when responding to and composing texts
Identifies and compares different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an understanding of purpose, audience and subject matter
Uses an increasing range of skills, strategies and knowledge to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on increasingly challenging topics in different media and technologies
Comprehends independently read texts that require sustained reading by activating background and word knowledge, connecting and understanding sentences and whole text, and monitoring for meaning
Plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Explore differences in words that represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs)
Understand that nouns represent people, places, things and ideas and include common, proper, concrete or abstract, and that noun groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectives
Understand that verbs represent different processes (doing, thinking, saying, and relating) and that these processes are anchored in time through tense
Analyse how different texts use verb groups to represent different processes (action, thinking, feeling, saying, relating)
Understand how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their purpose, audience and context, including tense and types of sentences
Understand how texts are made cohesive through the use of linking devices including pronoun reference and text connectives