Are you looking for a fun grammar activity—one that your students will beg you to do again and again?
Then try my bestseller Noun Town, where students place full-color images of people, places, and things on a map, and then match printed word cards to the images.
In my opinion, Noun Town is terrific, but don’t take my word for it! Check out what other teachers have said about it:
- A class favorite!
- The kids had a blast creating their noun town!
- One of my all-time favorite first grade activities!So much fun my kids ask to play it during constructive play and wet weather!
- Kids kept asking me when we could make more noun towns weeks after we’d done this one.
- This product helped create one of the best days with my students. They were engaged and completely enjoyed creating noun town to hang in our classroom. Seeing their creativity was amazing!
Teachers have also left wonderful ideas about specific ways to use Noun Town. I’ve organized those comments into Who, What, Where, When, and How they suggest teaching with Noun Town.
Who could use Noun Town comments
- Great for differentiation for my students who need high support with English.
- I am using it with my Special Education students.
- Was very beneficial for my lower level students. They can see it, feel it, and say the words.
- I used this with my newcomer ELD students…We used the pieces to work on speaking and listening skills.
- My firsties loved this!
- What an awesome product to make a kinder Noun Town!
What they could do with Noun Town comments
- This is the best following directions activity, and it always stimulates a good conversation.
- I used this for sentence writing. My students wrote sentences about noun town and what they saw.
- We made several of some things and used it for plural nouns.
- Perfect for integrating our Social Studies mapping skills with our noun work!
- Just what I needed to extend the curriculum.
- Talk about Proper nouns, not just common nouns.
- Used for social skills lessons.
Where they created their noun towns comments
- It became an adorable and informative bulletin board.
- My first graders took pride in creating their noun town to put on display in the hallway.
- I used to make a large class noun town where kids drew the pics.
- I usually hang them up in the hallway and get so many compliments.
When they could use Noun Town comments
- They looked really good hanging up at the beginning of the year conferences!
- This was a great way to end our unit on nouns.
How they used Noun Town comments
- I enlarged it, which made it big enough to add a lot of different nouns.
- I laminated it and used it over and over.
- I love the poster that I can hang to represent Noun Town.
- I am going to use it again for distance learning.
In my experience, kids have so much fun creating their noun towns that they don’t even know they are learning! Here’s a comment from one teacher whose class had used Noun Town:
Nouns are awesome according to my students.
After receiving so many positive comments on the original Noun Town, I decided to create several related printable and digital resources. Here are a few of them.
To check out the whole Noun Town family of resources click here. Have fun!!
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