Proper Nouns | Award Winning Proper Nouns Teaching Video | What is a Proper Noun

Understanding Proper Nouns  | This video reinforces the concept of the noun as a basic building block of spoken and written language.  It illustrates and provides examples of proper nouns in everyday life.  It highlights the use of proper nouns in speaking and writing as tools to make communication skills more specific by painting a clearer picture for the reader.  This video address the need for proper nouns to be capitalized, but places a bigger emphasis on how using proper nouns enhances written and spoken communication.  Supported practice is included illustrating the use of proper nouns in simple sentence structures as a means of providing specific information to the reader.  This video empowers students by not only connecting proper nouns to the prior concept of the noun, but also by addressing its impact on the spoken and written word as a powerful language tool for everyday life.

I’ve created an entire series of teaching videos to explain the components of English Language
Arts in a way that connects them to each other and to real world reading, speaking, and writing. The links for the videos in order are below.  Please look for my other videos and share them with others that may find them helpful.

Nouns: Video
Abstract Nouns: Abstract Nouns | Award Winning Abstra...
Nouns and Verbs: Nouns and Verbs | Award Winning Conne...
Verbs "Action" : Verbs | Action Verbs | Award Winning ...
Mental Action Verbs: Mental Action Verbs | Award Winning T...
Proper Nouns: Proper Nouns | Award Winning Proper N...
Adjectives: Adjectives | Award Winning Understand...
Identifying Adjectives: Adjectives Identifying | What is an A...
Adverbs: Adverbs | Award Winning  Understandin...
Pronouns: Pronouns | Award Winning Introduction...
Personal Pronouns: Personal Pronouns | Award Winning Per...
Pronouns and Antecedents: Pronouns and Antecedents | What is a ...
Subject Pronouns: Pronouns and Antecedent | Award Winni...
Linking Verbs and Action Verbs: Linking Verbs and Action Verbs | Awar...
Good or Well: Good or Well | Award Winning Good or ...
Subjects and Predicates: Subjects and Predicates | Subject and...
Helping Verbs: Helping Verbs | Award Winning Helping...
Helping Verbs Advanced:  Helping Verbs Advanced | Award Winnin...
Subjects and Predicates 2:  Subjects and Predicates More | Award ...
Contractions: Contractions | Award Winning Contract...
Understanding Contractions: Understanding Contractions | Award Wi...
Contractions Practice: Contractions Practice in English | Aw...
Compound Words: Compound Words | Award Winning Compou...
Indirect Objects: Indirect Object | Award Winning Indir...
Direct Objects: Direct Object | Award Winning Direct ...
Understanding Prepositional Phrases: Preposition | Award Winning Prepositi...
Coordinating Conjunctions: Coordinating Conjunctions | Award Win...

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