Here’s a simple free game that will get your learners thinking and writing about nouns!
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.
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.
My Seven enjoyed this game. He liked using his creativity to come up with different examples of nouns.
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.
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).
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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Angela S Rogers
I look forward to your emails and great learning tools for my children
Anna G
Thanks so much, Angela! I can’t wait to share more resources with you!
Mel
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.
j
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”.
Anna G
I’m so glad you like it!
Jessica Grove
I’m also very excited about resources for 2nd+ graders! Thank you for all of your amazing resources.
Anna G
You’re very welcome, Jessica!
Amy Stubblefield
Hi Ana, Do you have any resources for pronouns?
Anna G
Not yet, Amy!