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Seven Lessons on Noun Openers

 

Definition of Nouns

Common and proper nouns are a person, place or thing. Examples are in the chart below. Worksheets are provided for each form of noun to 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.

Here are the Noun Lessons and Worksheets;

1) Noun Openers Mini Lesson One; Nouns are words that refer to people, places or things. Here is a list of Examples 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

2) Noun Openers Mini Lesson Two; Definition; Nouns are words that describe the subject in a sentence. The sentence may be about a person; scientist, teacher, or, a place; bedroom, classroom, or a thing; animal, furniture. Read Tortoise of The Galapagos Islands first and then, using the list of nouns, write in the missing words on the blanks.

3) 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.

4) 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?"

5) Noun Openers Mini Lesson Five; Helping With Writing exercises guides you to write creative sentences using nouns as openers. Writing specific nouns as openers continues to better your child's creative writing style.

6) 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. Nouns are a person, place or thing. The catagories of nouns is marked with a p - person, pl - place & t - thing.

7) Noun Openers Mini Lesson Seven; By reading a wide variety of literature works as a role model for you and will help 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.

Noun Lists and Examples Mini Lesson List; Helping With Writing provides you with many examples of nouns. Read and then write these nouns in your daily writing to continue to develop your unique creative writing style.