Teaching ideas for Grammar
The benefits of learning grammar are cumulative. In the first instance a knowledge of grammar will give the children more conscious control over the clarity and quality of their writing. Later it will also help them to understand more complicated texts, learn foreign language with greater ease, and use Standard English in their speech. Spoken language is living and varies from region to region. The grammar we first learn, through our speech, varies accordingly. However, sometimes there is a need fro uniformity. This uniformity improves communications, and is one of the main ways of uniting people in the English-speaking world. Awareness of this helps children who don not speak Standard English to understand that way they speak is not wrong, but that it has not been chosen as the standard for the whole country. The children need to learn the standard form of English, as well as appreciating their own dialect.
1. Proper Nouns
A noun denotes a person, place or thing. There are for kinds; common nouns, proper nouns, abstract nouns, and collective nouns.
A proper noun is the particular name given to a:
2. Common Nouns
Abstract nouns are more difficult for to grasp for young children. Everything we can see has a name by which we can refer to it. The children enjoy looking in the classroom for examples of objects, such as 'table','chair' . As these names are not specific to any one object, but refer to tables, chair, and etc. in general, they are called common nouns and not proper nouns. At this stage the children find it useful to think of nouns as the names for things they can see and touch. to help the children decide if a word is a noun, they can see whether it makes sense to say word 'a', 'an' before it.
In general children understand to concept of noun easily, and have no trouble when asked to think of examples. identifying nouns in sentences is more difficult, but comes with practice. In any spare moments, encourage the children to identify the nouns in sentences on the board, or in big books.
3. Plurals
Most noun change in the plural, when they describe more than one. The first is by adding an (s) to the noun, as in "dogs', "cats" . The second applies to those nouns which end with sh, ch, s, z, or x. These words usually form the plural by adding es as "wishes", "kisses", "foxes'
1. Proper Nouns
A noun denotes a person, place or thing. There are for kinds; common nouns, proper nouns, abstract nouns, and collective nouns.
A proper noun is the particular name given to a:
- person, including that person's surname and title.
- place: river, park, mountain, street, town planet and etc.
- Building : School, bank, hospital, swimming pool and etc.
- date: day of the week, month, religious holiday.
2. Common Nouns
Abstract nouns are more difficult for to grasp for young children. Everything we can see has a name by which we can refer to it. The children enjoy looking in the classroom for examples of objects, such as 'table','chair' . As these names are not specific to any one object, but refer to tables, chair, and etc. in general, they are called common nouns and not proper nouns. At this stage the children find it useful to think of nouns as the names for things they can see and touch. to help the children decide if a word is a noun, they can see whether it makes sense to say word 'a', 'an' before it.
In general children understand to concept of noun easily, and have no trouble when asked to think of examples. identifying nouns in sentences is more difficult, but comes with practice. In any spare moments, encourage the children to identify the nouns in sentences on the board, or in big books.
3. Plurals
Most noun change in the plural, when they describe more than one. The first is by adding an (s) to the noun, as in "dogs', "cats" . The second applies to those nouns which end with sh, ch, s, z, or x. These words usually form the plural by adding es as "wishes", "kisses", "foxes'
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