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Using Collective Nouns WorksheetUsing Collective Nouns Worksheet
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K12 Reader
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Grade
2nd - 3rd
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English Language Arts
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15 mins
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Worksheet

Using Collective Nouns

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What do you call a group of soccer players? Or a bunch of bees? Young grammarians review eight sentences and add the correct collective noun based on the context clues they observe.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

collective nouns, Grammar, parts of speech

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Include in a language arts homework packet or assessment
  • Have young grammarians develop a list of additional collective nouns, and then have them put these words into sentences

Classroom Considerations

  • Some sentences are awkwardly worded in order to include as many collective nouns as possible

Pros

  • the worksheet provides a word bank 
  • Comes with an answer key 

Cons

  • None

Common Core

L.2.1.a

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