Year 2 Expanded Noun Phrases Bundle

Printable bundles with activities to support you teaching expanded noun phrases in Year Two.

• Expanded noun phrases activity sheets, children can practise identifying and creating expanded noun phrases.
• Expanded noun phrase matching cards. Cards with nouns, adjectives, determiners, prepositional phrases with accompanying pictures. Perfect in small groups to help children build up sentences or to develop writing in independent activities.

What’s included:

• Differentiated activity sheets at three levels — identification and creation of expanded noun phrases
• Matching cards featuring nouns, adjectives, determiners and prepositional phrases, each with accompanying pictures

 All files provided as PDFs ready to print and go.

Differentiation

Three levels are included to support all learners: 

Expanded noun phrases with one adjective.

 

Expanded noun phrases with two adjectives.

 

Expanded noun phrases with adjectives and prepositional phrases.

 

 Curriculum alignment

This resource directly addresses the Year 2 National Curriculum writing requirement: “pupils should be taught to use expanded noun phrases to describe and specify [for example, the blue butterfly]”

How to use

Works well as an independent activity, guided group work, or early morning activity. The matching cards are particularly effective for small group sorting tasks before pupils move on to the written sheets.