Nouns and Primary Languages Grammar. How are we getting on?

We have been considering ways to support all our colleagues to deliver appropriate primary target languages grammar as part of the language learning in school.This first round up blog focuses on nouns.
Here are some of the ways we have done this......

Child's voice,Stepping stones to grammar

Teacher's guide to the ways  to a step by step developmental understanding of nouns,verbs and adjectives from the perspective of a young child in primary school.

Function machines to keep a useful record

Using a familiar technique of Maths' functions machines to enable children to keep a re-usable record of the processes they need to apply to access and use grammatical structures.

Starting to understand nouns

Ways to help teachers to present nouns and the use of gender and definite/indefinite articles with young children who are just beginning to investigate the structure of language

Noun collectors

Several ways to help  beginner learners engage with the importance of collecting and identifying nouns in the target language 

I Spy Nouns

A game that can be used over and over again to help children who are moving on in their language learning .Children use  bilingual dictionaries to explore nouns.

Nouns,definite and indefinite articles, singular and plural!

Games and categorising activities to bring together knowledge of nouns as the children advance as young language learners. 

Creative use of nouns to become "Word Sculptors"

A group activity based on the use of nouns.Each group has the same nouns to investigate and use .The challenge is that the children need to create interesting sentences and performances so just like sculptors they create meaningful and creative spoken sculptures.This will help children to link nouns to adjectives and verbs