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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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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Common and Proper Nouns
For this common and proper nouns interactive worksheet, students write five examples for each of 8 given nouns. They see either a common noun or proper noun before writing 5 examples. They see the word "game" and write five proper nouns...
K12 Reader
Sort Common/Proper Nouns
Maestro Magnificent, swimming pool, magic wand. Persons, places, and things are the focus of a worksheet that asks kids to identify the common and proper nouns.
Teacher's Guide
Common and Proper Nouns for Valentine's Day
Common or proper noun, that is the question. With a Valentine's Day coloring page, class members decipher whether the word they read is a common or proper noun. Once they determine which type of nouns they see, theycolor the heart red or...
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The Art of Nouns: Common or Proper Nouns?
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...
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Common and Proper Nouns
This worksheet helps young learners differentiate between common and proper nouns by coloring each of the examples on the page in either red or blue, depending on the type of noun.
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Nouns in a Story
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...
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...
Nosapo
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.
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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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!
Kids Learning Station
Proper Nouns
Do your young grammarians need extra practice identifying common and proper nouns? This worksheet will give them an opportunity to show what they know.
Curated OER
Nouns
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...
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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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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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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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Packing Nouns
Play a noun game with your class. Put a suitcase in the middle of the room and have each class member, in turn, name a noun that begins with a specified letter of the alphabet. To ramp up the challenge, assign concrete, abstract, proper,...
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Review: Nouns
In this noun review worksheet, students circle nouns in sentences, tell whether nouns are common or proper, and write the plural of nouns. Students complete 16 problems.
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Proper Nouns, Common Nouns, and Pronouns...With Ninjas!
For this grammar worksheet, students underline common nouns, double underline proper nouns, and circle pronouns in sentences about ninjas. Students complete this for 20 sentences total.
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Common and Proper Nouns 2
In this common and proper nouns review learning exercise, students practice their grammar skills as they identify 41 nouns as common nouns or proper nouns. Students then write 3 sentences that include common and proper nouns.
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The Parts of Speech: Nouns
It's your basic noun instructional activity here; start the first exercise by circling the nouns (or nouns) that appear in each sentence. Then, for the second exercise, determine whether the italicized word is a noun by writing yes or no.
Curriculum Corner
“I Can” Common Core! 1st Grade Language
Support first graders with developing their basic language skills using this Common Core checklist. With each standard rewritten as a positive I can statement, students are encouraged to work hard toward reaching these clear learning...
K12 Reader
Identifying Nouns
What's more fun than an afternoon at an art auction? A morning with a grammar learning exercise! After reading a short story about Jillian's trip to the art auction, learners jot down every noun from the passage, labeling each one as...