1. SPI 0701.1.1 Identify the correct use of nouns within context
Common/Proper
Singular/Plural
Possessives
Direct/Indirect Objects
Predicate

2. 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

3. Common/Proper Nouns (p. 379)
Common Nouns
Examples:
Nouns that name any ol’ person, place, thing, or idea.
Dog, cat, car, building, school, man, woman, child, plant

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Common/Proper Nouns Resources Writer’s Choice book p. 379
Writer’s Choice Practice p. 380 ex. 1, 1-20
Workbook p. 62 ex , Writing Link

8. Singular/Plural Nouns (p. 385)
Singular Nouns
Plural Nouns
Represent a single person, place, thing, or idea
Do not have an ending
Represent more than one person, place, thing, or idea
Usually end in –s or –es

9. 3 Kinds of Compound Nouns (p. 381)
2 or more words combined as one word… like doorknob, homeroom, bookmark, clipboard
2 or more words combined with a hyphen… like runner-up, brother-in-law, kilowatt-hour
2 or more words that go together to express a single noun, but aren’t connect by a hyphen or by squishing words together… like ice cream, middle school, dining room
One word
Hyphenated
More than one word

10. Plural Compound Nouns
Sometimes it’s hard to know how to make compounds plural.
What do you do?

11. 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

12. Plural Compound Nouns
Hyphenated Compounds AND More than one word compounds
Make the most important part of the word plural
Runners-up, mothers-in-law, kilowatt-hours;
Music boxes, dining rooms, maids of honor, middle schools

13. Activity

14. Compounds/Singular/Plural Nouns
Resources
Workbook p ex. 1, 1-15
Plural Compound Nouns: Writer’s Choice p. 382 ex , ex

15. Possessive Nouns (p. 383-85) Possessive Nouns
How to form Possessive Nouns
Name who or what owns or has something
Can be common or proper, singular or plural
Add ’s or ’

16. When do you add ’s or ’? Most singular nouns
Singular Nouns ending in s
Plural Nouns ending in s
Plural Nouns NOT ending in s
Add ’s (girl’s)
Add ’s (Mr. Bowers’s, Alexis’s)
Add ’ (boys’, the Bowers’ family)
Add ’s (children’s, women’s)

17. Contractions (p. 385)
Definition—
What’s it look like?
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)

18. Activity

19. Plurals, Possessives, Contractions Resources
Telling Plurals, Possessives, and Contractions apart
Writer’s Choice p
Grammar Workbook lesson 10

20. Direct/Indirect Objects (p. 401)
Direct Object (DO) Definition
DO Examples
A direct object receives the action of a verb.
It answers the question whom? or what? after an action verb.
The girl kicked the ball.
What did the girl kick? The ball. So the ball received the action of the kick.

21. Direct/Indirect Objects
Indirect Object (IDO) Definition
IDO Examples
An indirect object answers 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.
What did she kick? The ball. (DO)
To whom did she kick the ball? To him. (IDO)

22. Direct/Indirect Object Activity

23. Direct/Indirect Object Resources
Writer’s Choice: p. 402 ex ; ex
Writer’s Choice: p. 404 ex ; ex
English Workbook Lessons 13 & 14

24. Predicate Nouns (p. 405) Predicate Noun Definition
Common Linking Verbs
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

25. Predicate Noun Resources
Writer’s Choice p. 406 ex , ex
English Workbook Lesson 15