Lesson progression on noun groups

1. The Lesson
 The lesson was preceded by a brainstorm
and conversation about nouns and
adjectives and how they might be used
together.
 The slides here show the progression of
the lesson with responses worked by the
students.

2. Noun Groups
The black cat with the sharp claws.
 Consists of a head noun (or pronoun) “Cat”
 Extended with additional words (modifiers)
 Pre-modifier “black”
 Post-modifier “with the sharp claws”
(pre means “before” post means “after”)

3. Select the noun groups.
The funny looking girl in the long grey
dress was sitting on the grassy cliff.
Stretching out in front of her were the
rolling plains covered with wild flowers.
In the warm months of the year, sweet
smelling violets littered the valley.

4. Select the noun groups.
The funny looking girl in the long grey
dress was sitting on the grassy cliff.
Stretching out in front of her were the
rolling plains covered with wild flowers.
In the warm months of the year, sweet
smelling violets littered the valley.

5. How can we improve this sentence
with noun groups?
The dog walked into the shed. In his jaws he
carried a mouse.

6. How can we improve this sentence with
noun groups?
The big fierce dog with pricked up ears
scrambled into the bleak shed. In his yellow
stained, drooling jaws he carried a
frightened petite mouse.

7. Identify the nouns, pre-modifiers and post-
modifiers in this passage
It was a warm, sunny morning.
In his small house at the other side of the wood Mr Tickle was asleep.
You didn’t know there was such a thing as a Tickle, did you?
Well, there is!
Tickles are small and round and have arms that stretch and stretch and stretch.
Extraordinary long arms!
Mr Tickle was fast asleep. He was having a dream. It must have been a very funny
dream because it made him laugh out loud, and that woke him up.
He sat up in bed, stretched his extraordinary long arms, and yawned an enormous
yawn.

8. Identify the nouns, pre-modifiers and post-
modifiers in this passage
It was a warm, sunny morning.
In his small house at the other side of the wood Mr Tickle was asleep.
You didn’t know there was such a thing as a Tickle, did you?
Well, there is!
Tickles are small and round and have arms that stretch and stretch and stretch.
Extraordinary long arms!
Mr Tickle was fast asleep. He was having a dream. It must have been a very funny
dream because it made him laugh out loud, and that woke him up.
He sat up in bed, stretched his extraordinary long arms, and yawned an enormous
yawn.