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Noun ideas

Pass the book

Collect catalogues, brochures and magazines that include

The children stand in the circle with a child in the middle

examples of the four types of common nouns. Give a

with his or her eyes closed. The book is passed round the

group of children one noun category such as ‘people’

circle until the child in the middle claps. The child then says

and ask them to cut them out. Let them create labels and

a letter of the alphabet. The child holding the book has to

display their nouns with the labels as a display.

say four nouns/proper/plural/compound nouns (the noun

subject is decided before the game starts) before the book

Let the children research a noun category. For example

is passed around the circle and ends up with them again. If

they can discuss and find out more about people’s jobs

the child does not manage to do it, he/she swaps places

and their titles, firefighter, doctor, teacher. A class noun list

with the child in the middle.

of the workers’ names can be added onto the board with

Matching compound nouns –

labels and information about the jobs.

Fox and geese

Create graphs from a survey and pictures of the children’s

favourite nouns of a category, e.g. favourite mini-beasts,

Put the children into a circle. Number the children 1 and 2

favourite local places, favourite jobs and favourite food.

alternately around the circle. Give all the 1s a beginning noun

of a compound noun on a piece of paper. Give all the 2s the

Word walls

second parts of the compound nouns (the cards should be

Create eye catching word walls. One flash card equals one

mixed up). Point to a child who is a number 1 and ask them to

brick. Have several bricks to create the word wall with the

shout out their noun. A number 2 that has a noun that makes

children. Have blank cards so that the children can write

a compound noun calls out their noun. They jump up and try

new nouns and add to or make a new word wall shape.

and chase each other around the circle and then sit down.

They can be used in a variety of ways.

Other activity ideas

• Common and proper nouns: one wall per noun category,

• I’m thinking of a noun. I’m acting a noun. I’m drawing a

animals, objects, names of countries.

noun.

• Making compound nouns.

• Hangman.

• Pairs such as single and plural nouns of a noun.

• Team game when noun cards are put in the right

category baskets – speed game.

• Word wall for ‘an’ words and a word wall for ‘a’ words.

• Word searches – doing them and creating their own.

The word ladder

A similar game to ‘Consequences’. In groups of four the

• Creating fun nonsense compound nouns with drawings.

children are given strips of paper with four sections (see

Word ladder template – Teacher resources). The children

• Use pictures and colouring books for the children to find

write a noun on the first section, fold over the paper

nouns/more than one thing – plurals and get them to say

to hide it and pass it to the next child. They then write

or write a list down of what they see.

another noun on the next and so on. After the strip has

been completed, it is opened up and the children read out

• Kim’s game: Children look at a picture or a tray of

the four written nouns.

objects before it is taken away. They write a list or say

what they can remember.

• Common nouns: A child writes an example of a

person noun, queen followed by an animal, place and

• Highlighting the proper names used on a simple local map.

object. They use the four nouns to orally tell a story.

• Making a list of local shop names and designing their own

• Proper nouns: Choose four categories in advance and

shop display boards.

at the end the children use the nouns to tell a story or

use the ideas to write a poem.

• Fun compound nouns with fonts and colours and texts.

Word wheel/ Word slide

• Happy common noun families/Happy proper noun families.

(see Teacher resources for templates)

The teacher or children add nouns to the wheels or slides

• Matching Bingo – make noun base boards and matching

to explore and discover other words such as plurals

noun cards.

with ‘-s’, compound nouns. Also a good reinforcement

resource.

• Trump cards/Fact cards of noun categories.

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