This document outlines a four day lesson plan on nouns. It includes definitions of different types of nouns such as compound nouns, common and proper nouns, concrete and abstract nouns, and collective nouns. Examples are provided for each along with practice activities and worksheets for students to identify nouns in sentences and review noun concepts.

1. Nouns

2. Lesson Plans
Four Days of Lessons On Nouns:
 Noun, compound, common and proper
 Concrete, Abstract, Collective
 Review
 Test

3. Nouns – a word or word
group used to name a:
 Person
Place
Thing
Idea

4. People
doctor welder
golfer
leader
player
referee

5. Places
mountain
city
ocean
country desert
lake

6. Things
apple
ball
dog
bowl
bone
book
snowflake
tree
chair
sun

7. Ideas
love
friendship
neighborhood
commitment
freedom

8. 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

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

10. 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.

11. 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

12. Concrete Nouns
Nouns that you can experience with one
or more senses
 sight
 hearing
 touch
 taste
 smell

13. Abstract Nouns
There are some nouns that you CANNOT
see, hear, taste, touch, or smell.
These are the nouns that are ideas. One
person’s idea of a particular noun may be
different than another person’s idea.

14. Practice Activity
 Worksheet page 25-26

15. 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

16. 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

17. Practice Activity
 Worksheet page 28

18. How to Identify NOUNS
Begin with:
 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!
Then, determine:
 Common or Proper?
 Concrete or Abstract?
 Singular, Compound, or
Collective?

19. Total Noun Review
 Worksheet page 29
 Holt Handbook Exercise A page 41