Study Champs
Nouns
Plural, proper, and common nouns are all included here. After reviewing the definition of a noun and reading an example sentence, learners underline the nouns in each of 15 sentences. Each sentence lists how many nouns are present, so...
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Types of Nouns: Common & Proper Nouns
Elementary school students often falter when asked to distinguish between a common and proper noun. Even older students may not be sure. This presentation provides a comprehensive review of nouns. Great fun!
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Instruction on Nouns
More of a short lesson than a worksheet, this exercise gives instruction on the definition of nouns. Young writers discover common, proper, singular, plural, concrete, and abstract nouns. Excellent!
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Common Nouns Activity
In this common nouns learning exercise, students common nouns to fill in blanks and complete sentences, write a sentence using given common nouns, circle common nouns and write nouns that begin with given letters.
Student Handouts
St. Patrick's Day Nouns: Common or Proper?
Is leprechaun a common or proper noun? This is just one of the nouns that learners must identify as common or proper for this St. Patrick's Day-themed exercise.
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Gender of Nouns: Grade 3
Translate noun gender with this flashy grammar activity! Class members classify a list of nouns according to gender, provide corresponding opposites of gendered nouns provided in analogies, and complete short word puzzles with common...
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What's In a Noun: Grammar and Usage
Nine lessons in a grammar and usage unit provide endless opportunities for drill and practice. Topics include the four types of sentences, subject and predicates, nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, adverbs and prepositions, conjunctions...
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Common and Proper Nouns
Identify nouns in speech and writing. Learners find all the nouns in a read-aloud story. Then, they complete a worksheet that reviews the use of nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, and interjections. A list of...
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Noun Clauses
Explore noun clauses with this presentation. Using a variety of examples, learners explore noun clauses, quoted speech, and reporting verbs. It is a comprehensive and well-thought out explanation of these concepts. The resource could be...
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Identify Correct Forms of Nouns, Pronouns and Verbs
Fifth graders review what nouns, pronouns and verbs are though grammar games. In this grammar activity, 5th graders identify proper and common nouns, singular and plural nouns and verb agreement with nouns. Students make an original...
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The Classification Station
Second graders identify proper nouns and categorize them by subject. They apply correct principles of grammar: they write complete sentences, use correct capital letters, use correct punctuation and apply correct rules of usage and...
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Spelling Rule Exceptions for Plural Nouns: No S at All!
What do a man and a mouse have in common? They're both irregular nouns! Practice the exceptions for plural nouns with a grammar exercise worksheet.
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Post Test or Worksheet on Nouns
A simple worksheet on nouns. It could be used as an in-class quiz, or as a homework assignment. Learners must provide an answer to a variety of questions regarding nouns. It could also be a good review for learners struggling to...
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Forming Plural Nouns
Everyone knows that a noun is a person, place, thing, or idea - but what happens when you have people, places, things, or ideas? Use this SMART board activity to guide your class through plural nouns. Several activities, including making...
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Forming Plural Nouns
Interactive SMART Board activities provide young grammarians with practice changing singular nouns to plural nouns. Learners then create collages on which they inscribe the singular and plural form of the noun label.
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Perfecting Plural Nouns
Turn potato into potatoes with a great activity on plural nouns. A quick reference guide at the top of the page shows third graders how to make regular and irregular nouns plural. They list as many nouns as they can think of, then work...
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Daily Warm-Ups: Grammar and Usage
If grammar practice is anywhere in your curriculum, you must check out an extensive collection of warm-up activities for language arts! Each page focuses on a different concept, from parts of speech to verbals, and provides review...
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Proper and Common Nouns
In this common and proper noun worksheet, students match a set of common nouns with their proper noun partners and write proper nouns for common given. A website reference is given for additional activities.
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A & An
Challenge your ESL students with this handout on articles. They choose "a" or "an" to complete several common nouns, as such "field," "hospital," and "uncle." This learning exercise would be a good class activity or quiz.
Core Knowledge Foundation
Second Grade Skills Unit 3: Kids Excel
The unit offers second graders skills practice in tricky spelling and words, grammar—nouns and punctuation, reading decodable texts, and writing a personal narrative. Lessons begin with a warm-up and go into a concept review, word work,...
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Gender of Nouns: Grade 2
Break down noun gender with a colorful grammar worksheet. Using word banks, learners classify and group nouns according to gender and write down feminine nouns that correspond to given masculine nouns. While this resource is labeled as a...
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Constructing and Using Different Types of Sentences with Support from The Shurley Grammar Method
Students analyze parts of speech, sentence structure, and ver usage in this ten lesson unit on grammar. Through games, activities, assignments, and printed material, the concepts are supported and reinforced in a creative way.
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Make Me Proper! Proper Nouns
For this proper noun worksheet, students are given common nouns in the left column, and in the right identify a proper noun for each common noun. Worksheet contains a link to additional activities.
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Proper Adjectives
Introduce your class to proper adjectives while reinforcing proper nouns. For this quick exercise, learners find the proper noun in each sentence and find the matching proper adjective in the provided word bank.