understand how noun groups can be expanded in a variety of ways to provide a fuller description of a person, place, thing or idea

How Bloomi helps with this

This is a NAPLAN-year topic. Bloomi teaches it with a short explainer, guided practice, and NAPLAN-style questions — every one traceable to this exact code.

What this looks like in the classroom

• learning how to expand a description by combining a related set of nouns and adjectives; for example, “Two old brown cattle dogs”
• observing how descriptive details can be built up around a noun or an adjective, forming a group (for example, “this very smelly cleaning cloth in the sink” is a noun group and “as pretty as the flowers in May” is an adjective group)