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!

Here is an outstanding presentation on nouns for your young writers. After discovering that a noun names a person, place, or thing, learners practice identifying nouns by choosing the noun from a list that describes a picture they are...

Students, assessing a variety of formatting tools with Microsoft Word, utilize a bank of vocabulary words to make a personal dictionary of nouns. They classify nouns for people, places, things and ideas and separate them into common and...

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...

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...

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...

Fifth graders review what nouns, pronouns and verbs are though grammar games. In this grammar lesson, 5th graders identify proper and common nouns, singular and plural nouns and verb agreement with nouns. Students make an original slide...

The New York Times' Learning Network provides great lessons! This one uses articles from the paper to help readers understand homonyms like mail (verb and noun). It also includes an exercise in reading informational text. Links to the...

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...

Review nouns and capitalization in these practice exercises. After studying definitions and examples for standard conventions, high schoolers complete practice exercises. The lesson emphasizes the differences between proper nouns and...

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.

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...

Review noun clauses with this helpful presentation. Learners practice identifying nouns, phrases, and clauses. The visuals and explanations provide a rich exploration of this topic.

Review nouns with this simple presentation. Have your class discuss what a noun is, how to change nouns from singular and plural, and read a list of proper nouns. To provide a richer experience, augment this resource with more examples.

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...

Learners define and identify nouns. In this nouns lesson, students watch a video and review proper and common nouns before constructing a noun pyramid. They present their noun pyramids to the class and add them to a bulletin board.

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.

Kids learn about the concept of nouns. They practice identifying nouns by sorting words into categories. As the teacher holds up each word, the class reads it in unison, then they take turns identifying it as a noun or non noun word....

While short, this presentation would provide a interesting and creative way to discuss common and proper nouns. This is a concept that students have difficulty understanding. In order to be able to write properly, students need to master...

In this common and proper nouns practice worksheet, students examine 20 words and determine whether they are common or proper nouns.

A great idea for showing language arts pupils the universality of themes, even in the real world! Have class members choose an idea-noun (peace, justice, war, love, etc.) at the beginning of the year or semester. They complete weekly...

Students sort word card into two categories (common and proper nouns). They copy the class charts. Students create a table in Word including the headings, common noun and proper noun. They put the correct words onto their chart and add a...

Students recognize common nouns and proper nouns and use them in proper paragraph form. They get the opportunity to play noun bingo. In addition, diagramming simple and compound noun sentences are undertaken within this lesson.

Need an overview of the parts of speech? Young grammarians view 14 slides that define each part of speech, provide examples, and list the basic rules for the proper use of these elements. The presentation concludes with a sentence that...