This activity is designed to help primary students Years 4-6 develop interesting noun groups to support their descriptive writing

1. Abel pulled on his mask
and snorkel and launched
himself into the warm
ocean. Immediately below
him he saw fish.

2. fish What?
fish How Many?
fish What kind?
fish What Like?
fish What doing?
fish
Where?
Abel pulled on his mask and snorkel and launched himself into the warm
ocean. Immediately below him he saw fish.

3. fish What? (NOUN)
hundreds of fish How Many?
fish What kind?
fish What Like?
fish What doing?
fish
Where?
Abel pulled on his mask and snorkel and launched himself into the warm
ocean. Immediately below him he saw fish.

4. fish What?
hundreds of fish How Many?
hundreds of reef fish What kind?
fish What Like?
fish What doing?
fish
Where?
Abel pulled on his mask and snorkel and launched himself into the warm ocean.
Immediately below him he saw fish.

5. fish What?
hundreds of fish How Many?
hundreds of reef fish What kind?
hundreds of tiny colourful reef fish What Like?
fish What doing?
fish
Where?
Abel pulled on his mask and snorkel and launched himself into the warm ocean.
Immediately below him he saw fish.

6. fish What?
hundreds of fish How Many?
hundreds of reef fish What kind?
hundreds of tiny colourful reef fish What Like?
hundreds of tiny colourful reef feeding on plankton What doing?
fish
Where?
Abel pulled on his mask and snorkel and launched himself into the warm
ocean. Immediately below him he saw fish.

7. fish What?
hundreds of fish How Many?
hundreds of reef fish What kind?
hundreds of tiny colourful reef fish What Like?
hundreds of tiny colourful reef fish feeding on plankton What doing?
hundreds of tiny colourful reef fish feeding on plankton
among the brilliantly coloured coral
Where?
Abel pulled on his mask and snorkel and launched himself into the warm ocean.
Immediately below him he saw fish.

8. fish What?
hundreds of fish How Many?
hundreds of reef fish What kind?
hundreds of tiny colourful reef fish What Like?
hundreds of tiny colourful reef fish feeding on plankton What doing?
hundreds of tiny colourful reef fish feeding on plankton
among the brilliantly coloured coral
Where?
Abel pulled on his mask and snorkel and launched himself into the warm ocean.
Immediately below him he saw fish.
Abel pulled on his mask and snorkel and launched himself into the warm ocean.
Immediately below him he saw hundreds of tiny colourful reef fish feeding on
plankton among the brilliant orange coral.

9. eel What?
an eel How Many?
a moray eel What kind?
a slimy serpent like moray eel What Like?
a slimy serpent like moray eel foraging for food What doing?
a slimy serpent like moray eel foraging for food in the dark
crevices of the ocean floor
Where?
Abel pulled on his mask and snorkel and launched himself into the warm ocean.
Immediately below him he saw fish.
Abel pulled on his mask and snorkel and launched himself into the warm ocean.
Immediately below him he saw a slimy serpent-like moray eel foraging for food
in the dark crevices of the ocean floor.

10. a shark What?
How Many?
What kind?
What Like?
What doing?
Where?
Abel pulled on his mask and snorkel and launched himself into the warm ocean.
Immediately below him he saw a shark.

11. a diver What?
How Many?
What kind?
What Like?
What doing?
Where?
Abel pulled on his mask and snorkel and launched himself into the warm ocean.
Immediately below him he saw a diver.

12. wreck What?
How Many?
What kind?
What Like?
What doing?
Where?
Abel pulled on his mask and snorkel and launched himself into the warm ocean.
Immediately below him he saw a diver.