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PSPKK123 January 5, 2018  •  9 Comments

Name a noun game

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Here’s a simple free game that will get your learners thinking and writing about nouns!

Teach your students to write different types of nouns with this free noun game!

This is the year I hope to create and share more resources for older learners (grades 2-4) on The Measured Mom. On the top of my list?  Printables and games for learning parts of speech.

child playing a printable noun game

I played this noun game with my second grader.

To play, we simply took turns moving around the board using a die.

When my Seven landed on a space (which was labeled person, place, object, or animal),  he wrote an example of that kind of noun on his recording sheet.

child playing a printable noun game

My Seven enjoyed this game. He liked using his creativity to come up with different examples of nouns.

child playing a printable noun game

I liked that we had a chance to talk about common and proper nouns. For example, after writing golden corral under “place,” I reminded him that the names of specific places need to begin with a capital letter.

child playing a printable noun game

He did a great job (and please ignore his pencil grip – it makes me cringe, but I can only pick so many battles with my Seven).

child playing a printable noun game

Do you think this game will work for your learners?

Here are some teaching tips:

  • Assign the game as homework to be done with a parent. It takes fewer than ten minutes.
  • Have students work in pairs to play the game (remember that they each need a recording sheet). Have them check and approve each other’s answers (maybe with a small smiley face) after each turn.
  • Another idea is to have pairs work together to move from start to finish; they can simply take turns rolling the die and moving the playing piece. You can have them use the same recording sheet. This will eliminate the competition and make it into a team activity.

Get your free name a noun game!

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Filed Under: Grammar Tagged With: first grade, second grade, nouns

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9 Comments

  1. Angela S Rogers

    January 7, 2018 at 8:28 am

    I look forward to your emails and great learning tools for my children

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    • Anna G

      January 7, 2018 at 4:45 pm

      Thanks so much, Angela! I can’t wait to share more resources with you!

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  2. Mel

    January 7, 2018 at 10:23 pm

    Anna, what a great idea. I think it could also be used as an interdisciplinary game, as students land on various types of nouns, they can be asked to use nouns distinctly related to certain books, texts, even subject material pertaining to science, social studies, history, math etc. What fun!!! In addition, games could be made using various parts of speech that again relate to subject material, nonfiction and fiction books. Thanks so much for such a versatile game.

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  3. j

    January 28, 2018 at 6:39 pm

    Yes! to both the Rhyme and Noun games. Like that the rhyme game was an easier y/n and that the Noun game was a harder “let me think”.

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      February 3, 2018 at 4:56 pm

      I’m so glad you like it!

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  4. Jessica Grove

    January 29, 2018 at 5:10 pm

    I’m also very excited about resources for 2nd+ graders! Thank you for all of your amazing resources.

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna G

      February 3, 2018 at 4:55 pm

      You’re very welcome, Jessica!

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  5. Amy Stubblefield

    September 23, 2018 at 3:41 pm

    Hi Ana, Do you have any resources for pronouns?

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    • Anna G

      October 7, 2018 at 7:56 pm

      Not yet, Amy!

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