Common Noun Teacher Resources

There is no way your class won't understand the differences between abstract and concrete nouns after watching this super cute video. They'll see first hand that love is abstract but hands are concrete, happiness is abstract while a ring...

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.

In this nouns learning exercise, students read 12 sentences and find the common noun that is a place in each sentence. Students print their answers on the lines provided on the learning exercise.

In this nouns activity, students read 12 sentences and find the common noun that is a thing in each sentence. Students print their answers on the lines provided.

In this nouns learning exercise, students read 12 sentences and find the common noun that is a place in each sentence. Students print their answers on the lines provided on the learning exercise.

For this nouns worksheet, students read 12 sentences and find the common noun that is a person in each sentence. Students print their answers on the lines provided on the worksheet.

Practice identifying concrete and abstract nouns with a worksheet that offers three different ways to show what enthusiastic grammarians know. First, pupils read a passage and identify the nouns; second, they think up three more of their...

In this common and proper nouns interactive learning exercise, 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...

In this nouns review worksheet, students practice their grammar skills as they identify all of the concrete nouns in 42 sentences.

In this common nouns instructional activity, students common nouns to fill in blanks and complete sentences, write a sentence using given common nouns, circle common nouns and write nouns that begin with given letters. 

In this grammar instructional activity, students underline common nouns, double underline proper nouns, and circle pronouns in sentences about ninjas. Students complete this for 20 sentences total.

In this common noun review worksheet, students use their language skills to identify a common noun that begins with each letter of the alphabet.

In this common noun learning exercise, students fill in blanks to complete 6 common nouns for each of 2 pictures, one of a young boy fishing, one of 2 children at a campground.  

In this grammar skills worksheet, students identify the common nouns and proper nouns in 9 sentences.

For this finding common nouns worksheet, students read ten simple sentences and underline the common noun found in each one.

In this word recognition worksheet, learners recognize common nouns. Students complete ten sentences by placing the correct noun from the word pool in each sentence.

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,...

In this parts of speech practice worksheet, students examine 8 nouns and identify each of them as common nouns or proper 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...

More of a short lesson than a learning exercise, this exercise gives instruction on the definition of nouns. Young writers discover common, proper, singular, plural, concrete, and abstract nouns. Excellent!

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!

Young scholars define and identify nouns. In this nouns lesson, students watch a video and review proper and common nouns before constructing a noun pyramid. They present their noun pyramids to the class and add them to a bulletin board.

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...

In this common and proper nouns worksheet, students label nouns as either being common or proper. Students complete this for 10 nouns and write 6 of their own.