teaching resource

Grammar Worksheet Pack – Lower Primary

  • Updated

    Updated:  17 Oct 2023

A 13 page worksheet pack to consolidate the learning of different grammar concepts in the early years.

  • Non-Editable

    Non-Editable:  PDF

  • Pages

    Pages:  17 Pages

  • Curriculum
  • Years

    Years:  1 - 3

Curriculum

  • VC2E1LA07

    Understand that words can represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives), relationships in time and space (prepositions) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs) <ul> <li>understanding that words or groups of words can represent the participants (nouns; for example people, places or things) that are involved in various activities or processes (verbs of doing, saying, thinking and being) and the details or circumstances surrounding the activity (adjectives and adverbs that answer ‘When?’, ‘Where?’ and ‘How?’)</li> <li>recognising how a sentence can be made more specific by adding adjectives, adverbs and precise verbs</li> </ul>

  • VC2E2LA07

    Understand that in sentences, nouns may be extended into noun groups using articles and adjectives, and verbs may be expressed as verb groups <ul> <li>identifying nouns that refer to people, places, concrete objects and ideas in sentences, and identifying the articles and adjectives that extend those nouns</li> <li>building extended noun groups using articles and adjectives, for example ‘the longest side’</li> <li>building extended verb groups using verbs, for example ‘gently touched’</li> <li>investigating how noun groups can be built up by asking questions about the noun such as ‘How many?’, ‘What’s it like?’ and ‘What type?’, for example ‘two pairs of old walking shoes’</li> </ul>

  • VC2E3LA07

    Understand how verbs represent different processes for doing, feeling, thinking, saying and relating <ul> <li>exploring ‘doing’ and ‘saying’ verbs in narrative texts to understand how they give information about what characters do and say</li> <li>exploring the use of ‘sensing’ verbs and how they allow readers to understand what characters think and feel, for example ‘He remembered his first day at school.’</li> <li>exploring the use of ‘relating’ verbs in constructing definitions and descriptions; for example, identifying the relating verb ‘is’ or ‘are’, ‘has’ or ‘have’ in descriptions of animals</li> <li>identifying different types of verbs and the way that they control meaning in a clause</li> </ul>

  • VC2E3LA08

    Understand that verbs are anchored in time through tense <ul> <li>learning how time is represented through the tense of a verb (for example, ‘She arrived.’ or ‘She is arriving.’) and adverbials of time (for example, ‘She arrived yesterday.’ or ‘She is arriving in the morning.’)</li> <li>learning that tenses for some verbs are formed by changing the word, for example ‘She catches the ball.’ or ‘She caught the ball.’</li> </ul>

  • VC2E3LA11

    Extend topic-specific and technical vocabulary and know that words can have different meanings in different contexts <ul> <li>identifying and using technical words to describe length, for example metric units of length such as ‘millimetre’ and ‘centimetre’</li> <li>identifying and using words to describe features of narratives, for example ‘character’, ‘plot’ and ‘setting’</li> <li>identifying words that have different meanings in different contexts, for example ‘warm temperature’ and ‘warm character’</li> <li>extending vocabulary by adding prefixes and suffixes to base words, for example ‘different’, ‘differently’ and ‘difference’</li> </ul>

  • VC2E4LA06

    Understand that complex sentences contain one independent clause and at least one dependent clause typically joined by a subordinating conjunction to create relationships, such as time and causality <ul> <li>creating richer, more specific descriptions by using adjectival clauses; for example, ‘Crossing the mountain range was difficult.’ becomes ‘The mountain pass was dangerous when it rained.’</li> <li>creating more precise and detailed sentences by adding adverbial clauses; for example, ‘They crossed the mountain range.’ becomes ‘Although the path was overgrown, they crossed the mountain range.’</li> </ul>

  • VC2E4LA07

    Understand how adverb groups or phrases and prepositional phrases work in different ways to provide circumstantial details about an activity <ul> <li>investigating in texts how adverb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases can provide details of the circumstances surrounding a happening or state, for example ‘At midnight (time) he rose slowly (manner) from the chair (place) and went upstairs (place).’</li> </ul>

teaching resource

Grammar Worksheet Pack – Lower Primary

  • Updated

    Updated:  17 Oct 2023

A 13 page worksheet pack to consolidate the learning of different grammar concepts in the early years.

  • Non-Editable

    Non-Editable:  PDF

  • Pages

    Pages:  17 Pages

  • Curriculum
  • Years

    Years:  1 - 3

A 13 page worksheet pack to consolidate the learning of different grammar concepts in the early years.

This worksheet pack includes the following grammar concepts:

  • 3 x worksheets covering nouns (concrete and abstract)
  • Noun Groups worksheet
  • 2 x worksheets covering verbs (different types, past/present/future)
  • Nouns, verbs and adjectives word sort
  • Adjectives worksheet
  • Adverbs and Adverbial Phrases worksheet
  • Pronouns (personal and possessive) worksheet
  • Prepositions worksheet
  • Conjunctions worksheet
  • Answer sheets for most of the above

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  • Maev Higgins
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    Hi could you please do a similar resource for upper primary?

    • Holly (Teach Starter)
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      Hi Maev, Thanks for your message. We have some grammar worksheets suited to upper primary, however not a booklet like this. Please feel free to request this in our request a resource tool: https://www.teachstarter.com/request-a-resource/ Thanks again, Holly

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