KS2 · Spanish · Year 4
Reference resources: understand symbols for nouns
Describe things and people: singular adjective agreement, to be being
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Your learning goal
I can use reference resources to understand symbols for nouns and develop my writing.
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I can use reference resources to understand symbols for nouns and develop my writing.
Key learning points
- The sound-symbol correspondences [ge] and [gi] can be contrasted for practice.
- These are soft sounds and sound similar to the sound-spelling correspondence [j].
- Reference resources develop independent writing. Resources, like dictionaries, indicate word class and gender.
- Adjectives agree with the gender of the noun. Adjectives add detail to description.
Words to know
- gender
- grammatical categorisation of all nouns as masculine or feminine
- word class
- category of words of similar function e.g. nouns, adjectives, verbs or adverbs
- adjective
- word that gives information about a noun
Common mistakes
Adjectives come before the noun in Spanish as they do in English. They do not need to change.
In Spanish, adjectives generally come after the noun. They agree with the number and gender of the noun.
For parents, carers and teachers
- This lesson offers a good opportunity to use dictionaries, or online reference resources if available. To practise using symbols for nouns and extending vocabulary in written work pupils can create their own poems with new vocabulary found in reference resources.