Common & Proper Nouns Worksheets for Parts of Speech Skills

Support young learners as they explore the difference between common nouns and proper nouns with this engaging worksheet pack. Students practise identifying, sorting, writing and correcting nouns across a variety of fun, early‑years activities.

This set includes multiple worksheet styles, underlining people and animals, circling things, crossing out places, sorting word banks, colouring nouns, cut‑and‑paste sorting, writing proper nouns, and identifying nouns in sentences. With familiar examples like cat, teacher, Emma, Disneyland, Coles, Crayola crayons, airport, park, Grandma, McDonald’s and more, students build confidence recognising how nouns work in everyday language.

How These Worksheets Build Grammar Skills

Help students understand that:

• Common nouns name general people, animals, places and things
• Proper nouns name specific people, animals, places and things — and always begin with a capital letter

These worksheets break the skill into clear, child‑friendly steps that support early grammar development and sentence awareness.

Students practise:

• Identifying nouns in sentences
• Sorting nouns into categories
• Recognising capital letters in proper nouns
• Correcting incorrectly written proper nouns
• Writing their own examples
• Matching pictures to common and proper nouns

Download and Explore Nouns Today

Use the dropdown menu to choose between the printable PDF or digital version of this Common and Proper Nouns Worksheet Set.

With clear instructions, child‑friendly examples and multiple activity types, this resource is an excellent way to build foundational grammar skills.

Samantha Rose, a Teacher and Teach Starter collaborator, contributed to this resource.

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