understand that words can represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs)

How Bloomi helps with this

This is a readiness-year topic that builds towards the next NAPLAN year. Bloomi practises it as curriculum mastery, never test drilling.

What this looks like in the classroom

• understanding that words or groups of words can represent the participants (nouns; for example, people, places, things) that are involved in various activities or processes (verbs of doing, saying, thinking, being) and the details or circumstances surrounding the activity (adjectives and adverbs that answer “when?”, “where?”, “how?”)
• recognising how a sentence can be made more specific by adding adjectives, adverbs and precise verbs