Expanded Noun Phrases

Year 2 EnglishGrammar and Punctuation3 pages

About this worksheet

In The Dragon's Cave, a brave knight rides up to a hidden cave, and a tiny butterfly lands on the dragon's nose and makes it sneeze a flame. Year 2 pupils fill 14 gaps in the story with adjectives from a bank of 16, which leaves two words spare. Two Your Turn questions then ask for a phrase about the dragon's tail and a sentence about the knight. The key gives the full passage and notes that paired adjectives can swap order. Three pages, written for the England National Curriculum grammar objective on expanded noun phrases.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

โ€œExpanded noun phrases to describe and specify [for example, the blue butterfly]โ€

Every story gap builds an expanded noun phrase, and both Your Turn questions ask pupils to write their own.

What's inside this worksheet

The Dragon's Cave

A word bank of 16 adjectives and a four-paragraph story with 14 gaps. Some gaps come in pairs, like the dragon's shiny, green scales and the heavy, silver sword.

Your Turn

Pupils write a two-adjective phrase for the dragon's tail, with a comma, and a full sentence about the knight.

How teachers use it

Before story writing

Use it before pupils write their own dragon or knight story, so they have a bank of adjectives ready.

Comma focus

Point out paired gaps like 'shiny, green scales' to teach the comma between two adjectives.

Word choice discussion

Ask why sleepy and purple are left over. It gets pupils thinking about which words fit where.

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