This 1st and 2nd grade LA lesson teaches students about nouns by defining nouns as naming a person, place, or thing. It includes examples of sentences with nouns and prompts students to identify the noun in each sentence. The lesson emphasizes that nouns are everywhere and encourages students to look around the room to find different types of people, places, and things.

1. Nouns
1st and 2nd Grade LA Lesson
by: Lindsay Forsman

2. What is a Noun?
A noun names a:
Person Place Thing

3. Find the Noun
Read the sentence below. Click on the noun.
This is a banana.

4. Bummer!
That word is not a noun.

5. Yes!
That word is a noun.

6. Find the Noun
Read the sentence below. Click on the noun.
The bus is green.

7. Bummer!
That word is not a noun.

8. Yes!
That word is a noun.

9. Find the Noun
Read the sentence below. Click on the noun.
What a tall giraffe!

10. Bummer!
That word is not a noun.

11. Yes!
That word is a noun.

12. Find the Noun
Read the sentence below. Click on the noun.
Where is your school?

13. Bummer!
That word is not a noun.

14. Yes!
That word is a noun.

15. Find the Noun
Read the sentence below. Click on the noun.
Did you see that tiger?

16. Bummer!
That word is not a noun.

17. Yes!
That word is a noun.

18. Nouns are everywhere!
We can find nouns all around us.
Let’s take a look around the room and
see what types of people, places, and things we
can find!

19. Resources
• Powerpoint created by Lindsay Forsman
• All clipart images are from Free Clipart
Pictures.