1. Grammar Skill First Grade Unit 2 Week 6 Created by Kristi Waltke
Nouns in Sentences
Grammar Skill
First Grade Unit 2 Week 6
Created by Kristi Waltke

2. Let’s Review

3. Nouns are words that name people, places, things, and animals.

4. Tennessee Sam New York City
Some nouns name a special person, place, thing, or animal. These nouns are called proper nouns, and they begin with a capital letter.
Tennessee
Sam
New York City

5. Officer Roddam Mr. Vise Dr. Malek Mrs. Phillips Principal Russell
People often have special titles that show respect for who they are or for the work they do. When a person’s special title is written with their name, use a capital letter at the beginning of the special title. Let’s look at some special titles.
Officer Roddam
Mr. Vise
Dr. Malek
Principal Russell
Mrs. Phillips

6. Christmas Friday Sunday Valentine’s Day Thursday February April
The words for the days of the week, the months of the year, and holidays begin with a capital letter.
Christmas
Friday
Sunday
Valentine’s Day
Thursday
February
April
November

7. Sometimes nouns name one thing
Sometimes nouns name one thing. Sometimes nouns name more than one thing.
tree
trees

8. This week we are working on being able to find the nouns in sentences
This week we are working on being able to find the nouns in sentences. Let’s practice this.

9. Honey bees live in a hive
Honey bees live in a hive. Which word or words in the sentence are nouns?

10. Squirrels like to eat nuts
Squirrels like to eat nuts. Which word or words in the sentence are nouns?

11. A woodpecker lives in a tree
A woodpecker lives in a tree. Which word or words in the sentence are nouns?

12. Ants and bees work hard. Which word or words in the sentence are nouns?

13. Bugs can help flowers. Which word or words in the sentence are nouns?

14. Remember: A noun is a person, place, thing or animal.
Practice Test
Circle the two nouns in each sentence:
The bees fly to their hive.
The beekeeper gets the honey.
A family lives together in a home.
We took the baby to the park.
The farmer has a horse.

15. Unit 2, Week 6
Review for Dividing Words
Learning to divide words will help students become better readers. When they learn to do this, they can separate big words into smaller parts so that they can read them easily. We call this “chunking up” words. Students will have to be able to do this for the reading test on Friday.

16. basket vccv bas ket basket
This is a basket. Basket is a word with two consonants in the middle and a vowel on either side. To read a word like this, I divide the word between the two consonants in the middle. Then, I blend and read the two syllables together.
bas
ket
basket
vccv
basket

17. I made a mistake. mist / ake mis / take mi / stake
Let’s try some! Where should I divide these words?
I made a mistake.
mist / ake
mis / take
mi / stake
v c c v

18. May I use your pencil?
pen / cil
pe / ncil
penc / il
v c c v

19. I Iike to eat muffins.
muf / fins
muff / ins
mu / ffins
v c cv

20. A desk is an object.
ob / ject
obj / ect
o / bject
v c cv

21. I need a napkin.
na / pkin
napk / in
nap / kin
v c cv

22. High-Frequency Word Review
also
family
new
other
some
their