Common Nouns Resources

Identifying Common or Proper Nouns

Help your students learn the difference between proper and common nouns with this lesson that has them come up with examples of their own and complete a worksheet to check for comprehension.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Parts of Speech Sorting

Parts of Speech Sorting

Sort nouns, verbs and adjectives in this game that's all about practicing parts of speech.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Game

Collective Noun Farm

Collective Noun Farm

What has a herd of cows, a float of crocodiles, and everything in between? This quirky reading lesson, that's what. Your students will love learning about collective nouns through music, literature, writing, and arts and crafts.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Using the 5 W's

Common and Proper Noun Scavenger Hunt

Using the 5 W's

This lesson will provide your ELs with support as they learn about nouns and practice retelling a story with a 5 W's graphic organizer. This lesson can be used as a stand alone activity or a support lesson.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Common and Proper Noun Scavenger Hunt

Students will take part in a scavenger hunt as they look around the school for common and proper nouns.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Find the Common Nouns

Word Transporter: Adjectives and Nouns

Find the Common Nouns

Use this resource to help your student practice identifying common nouns in sentences.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Word Transporter: Adjectives and Nouns

Which nouns are described by the adjective? In this silly parts of speech game, kids drag nouns to the adjective word transporter that they're described by.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

Game

Sentence Cafe

Mixed Review Writing Assessment

Sentence Cafe

It’s time to make sentences! At the Sentence Cafe, words come together to build stories. Get ready to learn about different parts of speech such as conjunctions, possessive pronouns, articles, and more in this hands-on lesson.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Mixed Review Writing Assessment

In this mid-year assessment, students will apply their writing knowledge to a broad set of problems.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Common Noun Mud Hop

Get into Grammar: Common or Proper Noun?

Common Noun Mud Hop

Practice identifying the common noun in a group of words, which is a great way to build reading skills.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Game

Get into Grammar: Common or Proper Noun?

Here's a worksheet that helps kids sort out the difference between common and proper nouns.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Noun Town #1

Common Noun Ice Cream Floats

Noun Town #1

Welcome to noun town! Visitors can practice identifying nouns in some of these sample sentences and in a sentence of your very own.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Common Noun Ice Cream Floats

Your third graders will have fun identifying common nouns in this ice cream float worksheet!

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Collective Nouns Quiz

Information from Multiple Sources

Collective Nouns Quiz

Army, herd, swarm or murder? Kids practice matching nouns and collective nouns in this reading comprehension quiz.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

Game

Adjectives in Noun Phrases

Information from Multiple Sources

Use this lesson to help your ELs quickly find information on a specific topic by looking for a noun and its pronouns in a nonfiction text. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support for the lesson Ecosystems Explained.

5th grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

A Search for Spring Nouns and Adjectives

Adjectives in Noun Phrases

Spice up your nouns with adjectives to create descriptive noun phrases! Students will gain practice identifying noun phrases and creating their own with the help of an adjective word bank.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

A Search for Spring Nouns and Adjectives

Spring is in the air...and on paper! In this spring lesson plan, students will read spring-themed sentences in search of nouns and adjectives.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

Lesson plan

Common Noun Royalty

Glossary: Using the 5 W's

Common Noun Royalty

Distinguishing common nouns from all other parts of speech is an important skill as a reader and writer. Use this resource to practice identifying common nouns.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Glossary: Using the 5 W's

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Using the 5 W's.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Noun Town #2

Noun Town #2

Get to know your nouns in noun town! Beginning readers can practice identifying parts of speech by finding the nouns in each sentence.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Common Noun Sort

Common Noun Sort

Use this fun sorting exercise to give your student practice distinguishing common nouns from other word types.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Proper Nouns

Proper Nouns

Kids will familiarize themselves with different types of proper nouns by using their imaginations to think up and write down examples of their own.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Noun Town #7

Noun Town #7

Take the train straight to Noun Town to practice identifying parts of speech. Help your reader get their noun knowledge down in this Noun Town worksheet.

1st grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Animal Nouns