A noun is a word that names a person, animal, place, thing, or idea.Make learning parts of speech fun with engaging books and hands-on activities that will turn your students on to the power of nouns, adjectives, and verbs Nifty Nouns Introduce students to the marvelous world of nouns with Chicken in the City (Grammar Tales! series), by Maria Fleming (Scholastic, 2004). This whimsically whim·si·cal adj. 1. Determined by, arising from, or marked by whim or caprice. See Synonyms at arbitrary. 2. Erratic in behavior or degree of unpredictability: a whimsical personality. illustrated book will delight young students with its humorous depictions of people, places, and things. Then, for even more noun noun [Lat.,=name], in English, part of speech of vast semantic range. It can be used to name a person, place, thing, idea, or time. It generally functions as subject, object, or indirect object of the verb in the sentence, and may be distinguished by a number of fun, try these activities. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Play Noun Bingo. Help students distinguish between common and proper nouns with this quick and purposeful game. Provide each student with a blank grid of 16 squares. Have them write the word noun in eight squares and proper noun in the other eight, in any order. To play, call out common nouns ("armadillo armadillo (är'mədĭl`ō), New World armored mammal of the order Edentata, a group that also includes the sloth and the anteater, characterized by peglike teeth without roots or enamel. ") and proper nouns ("Michael Jordan This article is about the former basketball player. For other uses, see Michael Jordan (disambiguation). Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17 1963) is a retired American professional basketball player. ") at random. Students can "cover" squares by writing the word in any appropriate box. The first student to cover four squares in a row gets Bingo! Be sure to check students' boards for proper capitalization. Then try playing with singular and plural PLURAL. A term used in grammar, which signifies more than one. 2. Sometimes, however, it may be so expressed that it means only one, as, if a man were to devise to another all he was worth, if he, the testator, died without children, and he died leaving one nouns. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Have a Noun Alphabet Race. Set a timer and call out a random letter. Challenge students to write as many nouns beginning with that letter as they can before time runs out. For more advanced students, you can provide a list of categories they must include, such as foods, animals, cities, and famous people. Invite students to share their most unusual words. Then, have the children use the lists to generate sentences, story ideas, or word walls. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Go on a Noun Hunt. Invite students on an exploration to find the many nouns hidden in plain view in the classroom. Divide the class into small groups and assign each group a different part of the room. Send your explorers off with supplies (sticky notes and pencils) and encourage them to label places (the writing center, library corner), things (scissors scissors Cutting instrument or tool consisting of a pair of opposed metal blades that meet and cut when the handles at their ends are brought together. Modern scissors are of two types: the more usual pivoted blades have a rivet or screw connection between the cutting ends , desks), and people (each other!). Your students will be amazed a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. at the sheer number of nouns all around them. When you are ready to take the labels down, tile them onto a large piece of chart paper for an instant word wall. Later, as you study adjectives, let students cover the room with descriptive word labels. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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