Nouns

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Nouns
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Lesson Plans

• Four Days of Lessons On Nouns
• Noun, compound, common and proper
• Concrete, Abstract, Collective
• Review
• Test

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Nouns a word or word group used to name a

• Person
• Place
• Thing
• Idea

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People
doctor
welder
player
referee
leader
golfer
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Places
ocean
mountain
city
lake
country
desert
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Things
apple
dog
ball
bowl
bone
sun
snowflake
book
chair
tree
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Ideas
commitment
friendship
freedom
neighborhood
love
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Compound Nouns

• A noun made up of two or more words grouped
  together!

• HYPHENATED
• light-year
• mother-in-law

• ONE WORD
• basketball
• grandmother

• TWO WORDS
• grand piano
• jumping jack
• peanut butter

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Compound Noun

• A single noun made up of more than
• one word.
• Common compound nouns can be
• found in the dictionary.

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Common or Proper

• Nouns are either COMMON or PROPER.
• COMMON nouns name
• any one of a group of persons, places
• things, or ideas.
• PROPER nouns name
• a particular person, place, thing, or
  idea.
• Proper nouns always begin with a
• CAPITAL LETTER.

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Common or Proper

• Common Nouns
• boy
• team
• building
• city
• teacher
• author
• singer

• Proper Nouns
• Trevor
• L.A. Lakers
• Honda Center
• Laguna Beach
• Mrs. Cochren
• Stephanie Meyers
• Michael Jackson

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Concrete Nouns

• Nouns that you can experience with one or more
  senses
• sight
• hearing
• touch
• taste
• smell

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Abstract Nouns

• There are some nouns that you CANNOT see, hear,
  taste, touch, or smell.
• These are the nouns that are ideas. One persons
  idea of a particular noun may be different than
  another persons idea.

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Practice Activity

• Worksheet page 25-26

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Concrete or Abstract

• Concrete Examples
• cotton candy, music, wool, puppies,
  garlic,
• cockroaches, spaghetti
• Abstract Examples
• love, commitment, jealousy, hate, revenge,
• freedom, justice, patriotism, anger,
  wisdom
• Christianity, fun, self-esteem, confidence

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Collective Noun

• A word that names a group but is in the singular
  form
• Examples
• jury, team, class, council, herd,
• swarm, family, crew, litter, batch,
• committee, quartet, audience

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Practice Activity

• Worksheet page 28

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How to Identify NOUNS

• Begin with

• Then, determine

• Look through the sentence and check for people,
  places, things, ideas.
• Often these words will have articles preceding
  them.
• Sometimes these words will follow possesives or
  numbers!

• Common or Proper?
• Concrete or Abstract?
• Singular, Compound, or
• Collective?

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Total Noun Review

• Worksheet page 29
• Holt Handbook Exercise A page 41