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What is a Noun? & When To Capitalize Nouns
Nouns are the focus of this language arts PowerPoint. Pupils will see that there are five categories of nouns: person, place, thing, idea, quality. The last two are not usually taught, but they are legitimate categories. When to...
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Parts of Speech
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...
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Parts of Speech
An 11-slide PowerPoint covers many parts of speech including: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, interjections, and conjunctions. Each section has a description and examples of the parts of speech. Tip: Ask your listeners...
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Parts of Speech
What better way to practice employing the different parts of speech than through a song? Young scholars color code different parts of speech in song lyrics, working first as a whole group and then individually. The parts of speech...
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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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Dictionary Skills
An online, interactive worksheet provides plenty of practice with using the dictionary. Learners look up and complete or correct 22 compound nouns and adjectives. They connect definitions of words that have affixes to the definitions of...
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Nouns-Sentence Completion
What is a noun? There are five fill in the blank questions here that require the learner to read the sentence, read the word choices to the right, and select the one that fits best.
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Prepositions Can Show Positions in Time
Who knows where or when? The preposition knows! Young grammarians are asked to identify the preposition and the connecting prepositional phrases in 16 sentences. An answer key is provided.
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Present Participle: Gerunds
How do you form a gerund in Spanish? After discussing this special type of verb that functions as a noun, give your class this practice opportunity. Use it as a bell-ringer the day after you introduce gerunds, or send it home for...
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The Parts of Speech: Adjectives
Are your pupils confused by proper adjectives? Provide them with extra practice identifying, not only the proper adjective, but the noun being modified as well.
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Pronunciation: The Sounds /s/, /z/ or, /iz/? Consonant Clusters with "s"
Instruct your class on how to pronounce /s/ sounds with this resource. Learners fill in the final /s/ sound into blanks, listen to plural sounds, learn about the rules of the target sound, write sentences, and work with consonant...
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Spelling--Plural Nouns
Learners choose the correctly spelled plural noun for each of 12 examples. They distinguish between possessives and plurals, need to know when to add -s or -es, and may need to change y to i and add -es. Class members can check their...
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Possessive Nouns
Review the use of apostrophes with possessive nouns. While just a quick look at the topic, this would be a great way to review the concept. There are two types of exercises for learners to complete. If more review is needed, a teacher...
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Possessive Noun __'s
Elementary schoolers note the use of apostrophes to create possessives. Learners examine six pictures and their matching words. They identify the -'s in each of the words.
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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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Plural Nouns
Working from the plural versions of nouns (in the context of sentences), your learners write the singular version of the underlined noun on the blank line underneath each sentence.
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Plurals: Words Ending -sh or -ch
The worksheet starts with a brief explanation about adding -es to pluralize nouns that end in -sh or -ch, and adding -s to other nouns. Then your learners circle the correctly spelled plural version of a noun in 10 example sentences.
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Singular and Plural Nouns
Your young writers identify a singular animal shown in an illustration and write its name on the line. They then write the plural form of the word under a picture with two of the same animal. Four different examples are given, and all...
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"More Than One"
Help your class learn the spelling rule for adding -es to plural nouns and third-person singular verbs. The resource suggests using songs daily to reinforce the rules. The songs are contained in a Sing Your Way Through Phonics 2-CD set...
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Sentence Train
What child doesn't like trains? Use this fun idea to practice writing. Young readers learn to write complete sentences by using a train graphic organizer made out of construction paper. Each section of the train (engine, boxcar, and...
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Nouns Used as Interrupters Review
Need to assess your pupils’ understanding of noun phrases used as appositives, as direct address, or as parenthetical phrases? Use this two-page instructional activity to determine their level of mastery of these terms and their...
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Vocabulary Instruction: Identify and Sort Common Words into Categories
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....
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Hillbilly Feud:Language Arts Game
English language learners or native elementary schoolers will enjoy practicing their parts of speech with this interactive grammar game. Set deep in the backwoods of Tennessee, the class splits in two to join either the Hartfields or...
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Using a Computer to Write a Letter: Nouns
Test your English language learners' ability to find the correct nouns! They will complete the blanks for 20 sentences that detail how to use a computer to write a letter. A word bank is included at the top of the page.