Classes of words #1 / Proper and common nouns - with activities
When we speak or write, we order the words in a certain way. If it were not so, we could not understand each other, because words, in addition to carrying a meaning, fulfill certain fnctions, even if we do not know them.
WORD CLASSES
- Nouns
- Adjectives
- Verb
- Adverb
- Conjunction
- Preposition
- Pronoun
- Interjection
"Nouns proper"
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According to its meaning, the noun are the words that serve to name living beings and objects that have a real existence in nature (stretcher, computer, Luis) or concepts that we use when we refer to certain ideas or feelings (sensitivity, concern, situation ).
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"Common Nouns"
They designate a being or object but without differentiating it from the rest of its class: school, book, dog, child.
1.Individual:
fish, pig, bird.
These nouns designate a single object when they are in the singular.
2.Collectives:
flock, skein, swarm
They are those who designate, being in the singular, a group of individuals of the same species.
Nouns own
They designate a particular being, but they do not say what it is like. They are the names of people, countries, mountains, rivers, cities, bays, peninsulas, islands, buildings ...
Example: Acapulco, Italy, Sofia.
Strategies to teach "nouns" to 2nd grade children
Show the following picture to the children.
SourceWe encourage the children to name all the elements they see in the image, while we write on the blackboard the names of these and we give a name to each living being, and then we classify them by groups (people, animals and things).
3.Ask him about the concept of the noun, to know about his prior knowledge.
4.Read the concept, and then identify the names proper and common from the list previously written on the board and classify them.
5.Activities:
Game: The longest list
Divide the students into groups and ask them to make a three-column box with the titles "Person," "Place," "Thing, and tell them they will have 5 minutes to complete each column with as many nouns as they can." Encourage students to share their lists with the class and reward the longest and most correct list with a small prize or a small compliment to congratulate.Select two names from each list and write a sentence with each one.
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