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Common and proper nouns are a person, place or object. The lessons worksheets below will teach your child how to use them as sentence openers in all their writing. Writing common or proper nouns as openers is a powerful beginning to your child's writing.

 

Mini Lesson One; Nouns are words that refer to people, places or objects. Here is an example list of nouns.

Person
Place
Thing
Tiger Woods
Texas
orange
Mr. Jones
North Dakota
bicycle
emperor
Canada
chair
cousin
United States
cord
Mrs. Knight
backyard
beaver
mom
beach
fish
magician
kitchen
towel

Prompt to try writing worksheet 1) Worksheet on Noun Openers

 

Mini Lesson Two; Definition; Nouns are the subject in a sentence. The sentence may be about a person; scientist, teacher, or, a place; bedroom, classroom, or an object; animal, furniture. Read Tortoise of The Galapagos Islands first and then write in the missing words on the blanks using the words from the list provided.

Prompt to try writing worksheet 2) Worksheet on Noun Openers

 

Mini Lesson Three; Describing nouns brightens your child's writing and makes it more creative. To help your child learn proper literacy, read the sentences aloud to hear which one makes the most sense to you.

Prompt to try writing worksheet 3) Worksheet on Noun Openers

 

Mini Lesson Four; A complete sentence has a noun and a verb. The noun is the subject and the verb is the action that the noun is doing. To check your work ask yourself, "Does it sound like a proper way of speaking?" "Does that sentence sound correct or right to me?"

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Mini Lesson Five; The Helping With Writing worksheets guides you to write creative sentences using nouns as openers. Writing specific nouns as openers continues to inhance your child's creative writing style.

Prompt to try writing worksheet 5) Worksheet on Noun Openers

 

Mini Lesson Six; There is a list of 35 nouns on this worksheet. Always double check your spelling by reading the words back to yourself.

Prompt to try writing worksheet 6) Worksheet on Noun Openers

 

Mini Lesson Seven; By reading a wide variety of literature you will expand your vocabulary and learn techniques on improving your own English Grammar. Read The Food Chain first for enjoyment, then go back and circle the nouns.

Prompt to try writing worksheet 7) Worksheet on Noun Openers

Helping With Writing provides you with a Noun List and Examples. Read and then use these nouns in your daily writing to continue to develop your own unique creative writing style.