This document provides a 4 day lesson plan on nouns that includes identifying different types of nouns such as common and proper nouns, concrete and abstract nouns, compound nouns, and collective nouns. The lesson defines what a noun is and gives examples of people, places, things, and ideas that are nouns. It also provides explanations and examples of the different types of nouns as well as a practice activity and instructions for identifying nouns in sentences.

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. 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?