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Common and Proper Nouns List Worksheet

Common and proper nouns organizer for any text students choose: they record the nouns they find under common places, things and other, and under proper places, names and dates.
Grades
Grades 2–4, Elementary
File type
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Updated Oct 26, 2026

Subject
ELA, Grammar
Topic
Proper Nouns, lists of common nouns
Resource types
Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets
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This Common and Proper Nouns List Worksheet is a great way for students to learn the difference between common and proper nouns. By creating lists of each, students will be able to better understand when to use each type of noun. This is a valuable skill for any student to have.

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Learning objectives

  • Distinguish common nouns from proper nouns found in a text
  • Classify proper nouns as places, names or dates

Skills covered

  • Noun sorting — listing nouns from a chosen text in the correct common or proper column

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What text do students use with the organizer?

Any book or passage the class is reading will work. The page is a blank sorting organizer and does not include its own text.

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