Grade 1 Fall — Sentence Mechanics, Noun-Verb Grammar, and the Three Text Types in Full Sentences
English · GR G1 eng.g1.f.gr.nouns_introduce

Identify and produce nouns (person, place, thing, idea)

Recognize that a noun names a person, place, thing, or idea. Identify nouns in spoken and written sentences. Generate nouns within categories.

Mastery threshold
90%
Min instances
20
Typical minutes
20
Spaced intervals (days)
1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60
Prereqs
Successors
Common misconceptions
  • Confusing adjectives with nouns ('tall' as noun)
  • Treating action words (verbs) as nouns ('running' as a noun — though it can be — gerund discussion is for Grade 4)
  • Missing abstract nouns ('love', 'idea')

Exercise pool (6)

Diff Stem Type
1 Look at each picture and say if it shows a PERSON, PLACE, or THING. identify pictures
2 Sort these 12 words into PERSON, PLACE, THING piles: teacher, park, book, mom, school, ball, doctor, kitchen, apple, friend, store, pencil sort
3 Underline the noun in each sentence: (1) The cat sleeps. (2) A bird sings. (3) My sister laughs. (4) The teacher reads. identify in sentence
3 Make this fragment into a complete sentence: 'The little brown dog.' fragment fix
3 Generate 5 nouns for each category: PERSON, PLACE, THING. generate
5 Stretch: write a sentence using an appositive. Frame: 'My ___, ___, is ___.' write with appositive