Welcome to Session 3

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Grade 3
In this Session we are looking at…

01 Adjectives 02 Nouns

03 Activity 04 Reading — The

Quigleys: Wild Life
WALT — What Are We Learning Today?

01 Review parts of speech

02 Understand the difference between

nouns and adjectives

03 Practice making sentences with

nouns and adjectives correctly
 WILT — What I Learnt Today

01 Correctly identifying nouns and adjectives in

sentences

02 Practice writing own sentences with a range of

nouns and adjectives

03 Recognising new nouns and adjectives from

the story
Adjectives…
We know that adjectives describe
nouns. They give us more information
about the colour, number, size, shape
of the nouns that follow it.

Adjectives are very useful as they

help us compare many things as well,
by using the suffixes -er & -est.
Find examples of adjectives
from our story…
Grassy Greedy
Massive Silky
Horribly dark Fierce
Fascinating White, Yellow
Interesting Unblinking
Small Bone-crushing
Soft Vicious
Strong
Huge

Great Gray
Nouns
Nouns are one of the most common parts of
speech. We always use nouns to talk about
people, things, animals & places.
Examples of Nouns from our story:
Rhinos Arabian Leopards
Lions Canadian timber Wolves
Café Reptile house
Gardens Grizzly Bear
Farmyard Bat house, vampires
Ditch Boa constrictors
Fields Hyenas
Nouns Phrases
Nouns Phrases are a group of words where
the noun is the main part of speech.

Noun Phrases include:

an article + adjectives + noun.

Examples of Nouns Phrases:

● the Southern White rhino
● an interesting event
● the luxurious cafe
● a green house
● a nice, peaceful field
● a soft, shallow and, grassy ditch
 Challenge Activity…

Write 3 sentences using interesting

adjectives to describe this animal.

What is the name of this animal?

Let's Read more about
The Quigleys…
Awesome
Words!
 Word Wall
Let’s look at some interesting new words from the reading

Stroke (verb) Purring (noun) Indignantly (adverb)

an act of moving your hand in an angry or surprised way
gently over a surface, a low and gentle sound
made to show you are happy because you think that you
usually several times have been treated unfairly

Slobbering (verb) Slavering (verb)

to let saliva run out of
to let saliva come out of the mouth, especially
your mouth when hungry or excited
 Word Wall
Let’s look at some interesting new words from the reading
(verbs)
Lunge Lumbering Marched
to move forward suddenly to special type of walk
to move slowly and
and with force, especially with regular steps, like
awkwardly
in order to attack someone soldiers do

Trample Churned
to walk on something,
usually damaging or to mix something, with
hurting it great force
 Thank you!
Asalaamu Alaikkum!