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PART ONE
If it has been many years since you last sat in the classroom, then your child bringing home their SPAG homework may find you a little confused. In an attempt to clear the confusion and frustration, we are starting to explore some of these concepts and starting off with What’s a Noun?
There are many word classes that we will be looking at. There are 3 main word classes that your child will meet in lower primary school.
- Adjectives
- Verbs
- And…
Nouns… words that describes a person, place or thing.
Examples
In the 3 examples below the nouns have been put in bold.
Peter ran away from the big dog.
The bird flew past the house.
Amy wore pretty shoes to the party.
Types of Nouns
There are 2 main types of nouns that your little learner will come across in Key Stage 1:
- Common
- Proper
WHAT Is A common noun?
A Common Noun refers to things in general e.g.
dog, bird, house, shoes, party
WHAT IS A Proper Noun?
A Proper Noun refers to a particular person or place or thing and begins with a capital letter e.g.
Peter, Amy, Europe, Tuesday, May
Activity to Identify Nouns
- Pick one of your child’s favourite story books and choose a page in it.
- Ask them to pick out the nouns in the story write these onto paper.
- Now ask them to divide them into Proper and Common Nouns give them a highlighter to mark them.
Baffled by the Vocabulary used?
You can find some other SPAG terms over in our Literacy Dictionary here on Parents’ Homework Hub. In addition to this, I would also recommend a handy reference guide like Oxford Primary Grammar Punctuation and Spelling Dictionary.