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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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Capitalize Proper Nouns
Learners practice capitalizing proper nouns with a straightforward activity. As they circle the proper nouns that need to be capitalized from each sentence, they write them correctly from the paragraph.
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Proper Nouns
Use this worksheet to help your class identify proper nouns. They circle the proper nouns in 16 sentences. Answer key is provided.
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Proper + Capitalization
Using capital letters in English can seem arbitrary if you don't know the capitalization rules. Guide English learners through the concept of common nouns and proper nouns using the English alphabet with a helpful practice packet.
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Proper Nouns
Elementary schoolers analyze correct usage of proper nouns. They correct six sentences and rewrite them on the lines provided correctly capitalizing all proper nouns.
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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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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Capitalization: Common and Proper Nouns #4
In this capitalization of proper nouns worksheet, students rewrite 14 names of holidays or special events. Students capitalize the important letters. Students circle the correct word: holiday or special event.
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Very Proper Nouns
In this common and proper noun learning exercise, learners read 18 words and determine if each one is a common or proper noun. Answer Key for learning exercise is provided.
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What's Proper?
Learners practice using capital letters for proper nouns and adjectives. They play a matching game with word cards and correct paragraphs with incorrect capitalization, and edit their work with a partner.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Kinds of Nouns
With so many different kinds of nouns, it can be hard for young learners to keep them all straight. Help clarify this important part of speech for your class with this series of worksheets which clearly addresses the difference...
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Nouns 2
Noun: a person, place, or thing. Assess your middle schoolers knowledge of nouns (and which ones are capitalized) with this worksheet. It's set up great for independent learners; after every five sentences, learners are encouraged to...
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Nouns and Pronouns
Young readers explore nouns and pronouns. They define what a noun is and highlight the nouns in given sentences. Learners are then introduced to pronouns, and identify them in simple sentences.
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Noun Switcheroo!
In this nouns worksheet, students identify common and proper nouns. In this fill-in-the-blank/matching worksheet, students supply ten nouns.
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Important Nouns- Proper Noun Worksheet
In this grammar worksheet, 4th graders complete a graphic organizer using their own initials. They write their initials in the first column and fill the next three columns with special people, special places, and special things, in order...
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Proper Nouns: Names
In this recognizing proper nouns learning exercise, students read names, in isolation and in sentences, and use capital letters to rewrite them correctly. Students write 13 answers.
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Capital Letters: Proper Nouns
Elementary schoolers write the names of five friends in a box, capitalizing their names. They think of five places they have been and write them using correct capitalization. Everyone writes the day and month as well as their birthday...
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Proper nouns
Young scholars expand their knowledge of the definition of a proper noun. They also realize that capital letters are used at the beginning of proper nouns. They are explained what a proper noun is: proper nouns put names to faces;...
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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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Common Nouns & Proper Nouns
In this common and proper nouns worksheet, students label nouns as either being common or proper. Students complete this for 10 nouns and write 6 of their own.
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Proper Nouns and Capitalization
Sixth graders brainstorm and write common nouns beginning with a given letter, then using one word from the list write as many proper nouns for that word, correctly capitalized. In this proper nouns and capitalization lesson, 6th...
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Proper Nouns
In this proper nouns skills practice learning exercise, students respond to 10 short answer questions that require them to identify proper nouns with the correct capitalization.
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Proper Nouns About Me
In this proper nouns worksheet, students identify and use proper nouns. In this fill-in-the-blank worksheet, students answer nine questions.
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Language Arts: Introduction to Nouns
Ninth graders discover how to differentiate types of nouns through interactive group work by using packets of manipulatives and completing worksheets. After discussing the characteristics of common and proper nouns, they open the packets...