SPI 0701.1.1 Identify the correct use of nouns within context

1. SPI 0701.1.1Identify the correct use of nouns within context Common/Proper Singular/Plural Possessives Direct/Indirect Objects Predicate

2. Review Activity: What’s a Noun? • Play Noun charades. Options: • Write examples of different nouns on slips of paper, give the student one as they go up to perform • Write “person,” “place,” “thing,” or “idea” on a slip of paper and give it to the student as they come up perform • Let the students come up with their own noun on the fly

3. Common Nouns Examples: Nouns that name any ol’ person, place, thing, or idea. Dog, cat, car, building, school, man, woman, child, plant Common/Proper Nouns (p. 379)

4. Proper Nouns Examples: Nouns that name a specific person, place, thing, or idea. Proper nouns are capitalized Beagle, Toyota, Bob, Alice, Sevierville, iPod Common/Proper Nouns

5. Common/Proper Noun Poem Common nouns are bears and opossums, But proper nouns are Roses with blossoms. Common nouns are very scary, Proper nouns are Bill and Harry. Proper nouns are very specific, Including words like The Great Pacific. Common nouns are boring and dull, They are words like cat, dog, and bull. I hope you’ve learned common and proper, Even though they’re not etched in copper. Ryan Jones and Chris Torres

6. Activity • Common/Proper Duck-Duck-Goose • Cube/Ball Game—Write common and proper on different parts of a cube or ball, and whichever they touch when catching it they have to give an example of. May be adapted with dice. • Make a board with examples of common and proper nouns. Throw something (magnets, paper wads, balls, velcro-ed something or the other) at the board and tell whether the noun you hit is common or proper

7. Resources Writer’s Choice book p. 379 Writer’s Choice Practice p. 380 ex. 1, 1-20 Workbook p. 62 ex. 2 1-15, Writing Link Common/Proper Nouns

8. Singular Nouns Plural Nouns Represent a single person, place, thing, or idea Do not have an ending Represent more than one person, place, thing, or idea Usually end in –s or –es Singular/Plural Nouns (p. 385)

9. One word Hyphenated More than one word 2 or more words combined as one word… like doorknob, homeroom, bookmark, clipboard 2 or more words combined with a hyphen… like runner-up, brother-in-law, kilowatt-hour 2 or more words that go together to express a single noun, but aren’t connect by a hyphen or by squishing words together… like ice cream, middle school, dining room 3 Kinds of Compound Nouns (p. 381)

10. Plural Compound Nouns Sometimes it’s hard to know how to make compounds plural. What do you do?

11. One word compounds Add –s to most words Add –es to most words that end in ch, sh, s, or x Necklaces, leftovers, strongboxes Plural Compound Nouns

12. Hyphenated Compounds AND More than one word compounds Make the most important part of the word plural Runners-up, mothers-in-law, kilowatt-hours; Music boxes, dining rooms, maids of honor, middle schools Plural Compound Nouns

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14. Resources Workbook p. 61-62 ex. 1, 1-15 Plural Compound Nouns: Writer’s Choice p. 382 ex. 3 1-20, ex. 4 1-20 Compounds/Singular/Plural Nouns

15. Possessive Nouns How to form Possessive Nouns Name who or what owns or has something Can be common or proper, singular or plural Add ’s or ’ Possessive Nouns (p. 383-85)

16. Most singular nouns Singular Nouns ending in s Plural Nouns ending in s Plural Nouns NOT ending in s Add ’s (girl’s) Add ’s (Mr. Bowers’s, Alexis’s) Add ’ (boys’, the Bowers’ family) Add ’s (children’s, women’s) When do you add ’s or ’?

17. Definition— What’s it look like? When you combine two words into one word by leaving out one or more letters. Use an apostrophe (‘) to show you are leaving letters out Can’t, won’t, didn’t… these you’re used to… but also— He’s, she’s, Tom’s (he is, she is, Tom is) Contractions (p. 385)

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19. Telling Plurals, Possessives, and Contractions apart Writer’s Choice p. 385-86 Grammar Workbook lesson 10 Plurals, Possessives, Contractions Resources

20. Direct Object (DO) Definition DO Examples A direct object receives the action of a verb. It answers the question whom? or what? after an action verb. The girl kicked the ball. What did the girl kick? The ball. So the ball received the action of the kick. Direct/Indirect Objects (p. 401)

21. Indirect Object (IDO) Definition IDO Examples An indirect object answers the question to whom? or for whom? an action is done. IDO comes between the action verb and the Direct Object She kicked him the ball. What did she kick? The ball. (DO) To whom did she kick the ball? To him. (IDO) Direct/Indirect Objects

22. Direct/Indirect Object Activity

23. Direct/Indirect Object Resources • Writer’s Choice: p. 402 ex. 3 1-20; ex. 4 1-5 • Writer’s Choice: p. 404 ex 5 1-20; ex. 6 1-5 • English Workbook Lessons 13 & 14

24. Predicate Noun Definition Common Linking Verbs A noun that comes after a linking verb and tells what the subject is. Be, become, seem, appear, look, grow, turn, taste, feel, smell, sound Predicate Nouns (p. 405)

25. Predicate Noun Resources • Writer’s Choice p. 406 ex. 7 1-20, ex. 8 1-5 • English Workbook Lesson 15