What’s a Noun? Learn with Mad Libs Poem!
I have two fun ideas to get kids off screens. Mad Libs and Riddles! Imagination Soup has Easy Riddles for Kids to get them reading and writing. Mad Libs are another great way to get teach kids about nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in a fun way. Here, we explore nouns.
What’s A Noun?
A Person, Place or Thing.
Author: not sure but I suspect it’s a teacher at my elementary school. I found this poem hanging up in the school hallway!
I wonder if it was a class exercise like a Mad Lib? That would be fun!
Hill is a noun.
Mill is a noun.
Even Uncle Phil is a noun.
Gown is a noun.
Crown is a noun.
In fact, our whole hometown is.
If it’s a desk, duck, or deer.
If it’s a crystal chandelier.
If it’s a train, or plane, or frown.
It’s elementary — it’s a noun.
Nouns can sometimes be quite formal.
Like Brooklyn Bridge or Edward Hopper,
London, Levis, Pekinese—
Proper nouns name all of these.
A jail, a nail, and a bale of hay.
The pool or park in which you play.
A quarter, a porter, a pencil, a pen —
Nouns are seen almost every day!
A box, a lip, a chocolate chip.
A cup or glass from which you sip.
A pocket, button, sleeve, or cuff —
A noun can simply be your stuff.
A mink, a fink, a skating rink.
A cake, a rake, your kitchen sink.
The Pope, some soap that’s on a rope.
A downtown mall on a downhill slope.
A hare, a mouse, a broken clock,
New Mexico or an old white sock.
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a person, place, or thing… funny we have plenty on grammar in our next two apps… plus verbs, adj, adv, prepositions, etc…. Will send a promo if you like!
Actually, this poem is the text of the book A Mink, A Fink, a Skating Rink by Brian Cleary. http://tiny.cc/x6l89
Thanks! I had no idea! I guess you could change it up to let kids choose different words for a “Mad Libs” poem. I had imagined them doing that! 🙂