SPI 0701.1.1
Identify the correct use of
nouns within context
Common/Proper
Singular/Plural
Possessives
Direct/Indirect Objects
Predicate
Review Activity: What’s a Noun?
• Play Noun charades. Options:
– Write examples of different nouns on slips of
paper, give the student one as they go up to
perform
– Write “person,” “place,” “thing,” or “idea” on a
slip of paper and give it to the student as they
come up perform
– Let the students come up with their own noun
on the fly
Common/Proper Nouns
(p. 379)
• Common Nouns
• Nouns that name any
ol’ person, place,
thing, or idea.
• Examples:
• Dog, cat, car,
building, school, man,
woman, child, plant
Common/Proper Nouns
• Proper Nouns
• Examples:
• Nouns that name a
specific person,
place, thing, or idea.
• Proper nouns are
capitalized
• Beagle, Toyota, Bob,
Alice, Sevierville, iPod
Common/Proper Noun Poem
Common nouns are bears and opossums,
But proper nouns are Roses with blossoms.
Common nouns are very scary,
Proper nouns are Bill and Harry.
Proper nouns are very specific,
Including words like The Great Pacific.
Common nouns are boring and dull,
They are words like cat, dog, and bull.
I hope you’ve learned common and proper,
Even though they’re not etched in copper.
Ryan Jones and Chris Torres
Activity
• Common/Proper Duck-Duck-Goose
• Cube/Ball Game—Write common and proper on
different parts of a cube or ball, and whichever
they touch when catching it they have to give an
example of. May be adapted with dice.
• Make a board with examples of common and
proper nouns. Throw something (magnets,
paper wads, balls, velcro-ed something or the
other) at the board and tell whether the noun
you hit is common or proper
Common/Proper Nouns
• Resources
• Writer’s Choice book
p. 379
• Writer’s Choice
Practice p. 380 ex. 1,
1-20
• Workbook p. 62 ex. 2
1-15, Writing Link
Singular/Plural Nouns
(p. 385)
Singular Nouns
Represent a single
person, place, thing,
or idea
Do not have an ending
Plural Nouns
Represent more than
one person, place,
thing, or idea
Usually end in –s or –es
3 Kinds of Compound Nouns
(p. 381)
2 or more words combined as one
One word
word… like doorknob,
homeroom, bookmark, clipboard
2 or more words combined with a
Hyphenated
hyphen… like runner-up, brotherin-law, kilowatt-hour
2 or more words that go together to
More than one word
express a single noun, but aren’t
connect by a hyphen or by
squishing words together… like
ice cream, middle school, dining
room
Plural Compound Nouns
Sometimes it’s hard to know how to make
compounds plural.
What do you do?
Plural Compound Nouns
• One word compounds
• Add –s to most words
• Add –es to most
words that end in ch,
sh, s, or x
• Necklaces, leftovers,
strongboxes
Plural Compound Nouns
• Hyphenated
Compounds AND
More than one word
compounds
• Make the most
important part of the
word plural
• Runners-up, mothersin-law, kilowatt-hours;
• Music boxes, dining
rooms, maids of
honor, middle schools
Activity
Compounds/Singular/Plural Nouns
• Resources
• Workbook p. 61-62
ex. 1, 1-15
• Plural Compound
Nouns: Writer’s
Choice p. 382 ex. 3 120, ex. 4 1-20
Possessive Nouns
(p. 383-85)
• Possessive Nouns
• Name who or what
owns or has
something
• Can be common or
proper, singular or
plural
• How to form
Possessive Nouns
• Add ’s or ’
When do you add ’s or ’?
• Most singular nouns
• Add ’s (girl’s)
• Singular Nouns
ending in s
• Add ’s (Mr. Bowers’s,
Alexis’s)
• Plural Nouns ending
in s
• Add ’ (boys’, the
Bowers’ family)
• Plural Nouns NOT
ending in s
• Add ’s (children’s,
women’s)
Contractions
• Definition—
• What’s it look like?
(p. 385)
When you combine two words
into one word by leaving out
one or more letters.
Use an apostrophe (‘) to show
you are leaving letters out
Can’t, won’t, didn’t… these
you’re used to… but also—
He’s, she’s, Tom’s
(he is, she is, Tom is)
Activity
Plurals, Possessives, Contractions
Resources
• Telling Plurals,
Possessives, and
Contractions apart
• Writer’s Choice p.
385-86
• Grammar Workbook
lesson 10
Direct/Indirect Objects
(p. 401)
• Direct Object (DO) • A direct object receives the
Definition
action of a verb.
• It answers the question
whom? or what? after an
action verb.
• The girl kicked the ball.
• DO Examples
• What did the girl kick? The
ball. So the ball received the
action of the kick.
Direct/Indirect Objects
• Indirect Object (IDO) • An indirect object answers
Definition
the question to whom? or
for whom? an action is
done.
• IDO comes between the
action verb and the Direct
Object
• She kicked him the ball.
• IDO Examples
• What did she kick? The
ball. (DO)
• To whom did she kick the
ball? To him. (IDO)
Direct/Indirect Object Activity
Direct/Indirect Object Resources
• Writer’s Choice: p. 402 ex. 3 1-20; ex. 4 1-5
• Writer’s Choice: p. 404 ex 5 1-20; ex. 6 1-5
• English Workbook Lessons 13 & 14
Predicate Nouns
• Predicate Noun
Definition
• Common Linking
Verbs
(p. 405)
• A noun that comes
after a linking verb and
tells what the subject
is.
• Be, become, seem,
appear, look, grow,
turn, taste, feel, smell,
sound
Predicate Noun Resources
• Writer’s Choice p. 406 ex. 7 1-20, ex. 8 1-5
• English Workbook Lesson 15