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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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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.
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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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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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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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The Parts of Speech: Nouns
It's your basic noun learning exercise 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.
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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...
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Proper Nouns
Learners read the 19 nouns on the elephant and then circle each noun that is a proper noun. They write 10 additional proper nouns on the lines provided on the second elephant.
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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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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.
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Proper Nouns
Learners read 10 sentences and underline each word that should have a capital letter. They write the proper nouns correctly. Good, basic practice for the use of proper nouns.
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Capitalization
As an easy way to review capitalization rules, an upper elementary or middle school teacher could use this activity. Learners answer 10 questions by identifying whether or not the nouns in the the sentence should be capitalized.
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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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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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Intermediate Sentence Correction 9
Give your English language learners practice editing and correcting sentences. There are six sentences for your group to correct. Consider giving struggling learners the number of corrections needed in each sentence to help them.
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Capitalization of Nouns
Which nouns are capitalized? Challenge young editors with these erroneous sentences, all of which require capitalization. After circling all the necessary capitals in 10 sentences, they rewrite two sentences (which are all in capital...
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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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Proper Nouns: Person, Place, or Thing
Learners recognize proper nouns in sentences and print them on the lines. They write twelve short 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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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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Identifying Parts Of Speech
This resource provides a brief but valuable discussion of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. In addition to defining each term and including an example, this worksheet reminds students that a word's part of speech depends on how it is...
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Proper Nouns
In this parts of speech practice activity, students examine 8 nouns and identify each of them as common nouns or proper nouns.
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Punctuation: Making Sense of Writing
By fourth grade, most students are able to construct fairly well-thought-out sentences. Make sure your class is on the right track by frequently introducing concepts of proper punctuation. Each slide contains rules and examples...
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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...