Printable Back to School Noun Practice for Second Grade

Early elementary grades are some of the most critical times for developing language arts skills. Kids are learning how to read fluently, how to identify parts of speech, and how to create clear sentences on their own.

As part of second grade language arts standards, children often learn how to form and use both singular and collective nouns. And that’s why I wanted to share a simple language arts lesson: a printable noun practice for second grade activity with a fun back-to-school theme!

This simple cut and paste activity is perfect for early grades. And you can challenge the kids to use collective nouns in more than one setting!

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Printable Back to School Noun Practice for Second Grade

To use this printable noun practice for second grade activity, you’ll need the following: (This post contains affiliate links. For details, see our Disclosure Policy.)

• Printer (with ink)
• Printer Paper
• Child-safe scissors
• Glue stick

This noun sorting practice pack is a cut and paste activity featuring common nouns, plural nouns, and collective nouns.

Collective nouns are nouns that look like singular nouns but refer to a group, such as “team”, “group”, “class”, etc. Learning to distinguish between these types of nouns is a critical language arts skill for second grade.

In this activity, the collective nouns include pair, group, team, pack, while the common nouns include backpack, lunchbox, bus, and student. There are also plural nouns such as children, sandwiches, lunches, and apples.

Kids can cut out the nouns from the Noun Word Bank and then match the correct noun to the correct picture. Since some of the nouns work with multiple pictures, this can be a bit tricky!

Once kids decide which picture goes with which noun, they glue them into the box below.

Like so.

All done!

The first Noun Word Bank includes all of the words that match up with the pictures in the pack.

The second Noun Word Bank includes singular or plural versions of the same nouns – just in case you want to give your kids a bit of a challenge.

Scroll down to get your copy of our Back to School Noun Practice for Second Grade activity!

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