This challenging worksheet asks second graders to think carefully about common and proper nouns in trickier situations. Part A's multiple-choice questions include picking the group that is all common nouns (chair, spoon, window), spotting the capitalization mistake in "The family went to disney World," and matching planet with its proper noun Mars.
Part B's fill-in-the-blanks cover Disney World, the Nile river, and naming a month after June and August. These problems push students past simple sorting into real editing decisions, the kind of careful noun-spotting that strong second-grade writers and readers need every day.
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Common and Proper Nouns
Part A: Multiple Choice
Circle the best answer for each question.
1. Which group of words are ALL common nouns?
A) Mars, Jupiter, Venus
B) chair, spoon, window
C) Tuesday, Sunday, Friday
D) Ohio, Texas, Maine
2. Which sentence has a capitalization mistake?
A) We visited Aunt Rosa last week.
B) The family went to disney World.
C) My brother reads every night.
D) She named her hamster Peanut.
3. The word "mountain" is a common noun. Which of these is a proper noun?
A) the tall mountain
B) Mountains
C) Mount Rushmore
D) a rocky mountain
4. Which pair shows a common noun and its matching proper noun?
A) sing — song
B) planet — Mars
C) cold — warm
D) tall — taller
Part B: Fill in the Blank
Write the correct answer on each line.
1. "Disney World" is a proper noun, but "park" alone is a common noun.
2. The proper noun for the common noun "planet" could be Mars.
3. When writing the name of a holiday, the first letter must be capitalized.
4. The word "Nile" is a proper noun that names a specific river.
5. Proper nouns for months include June, August, and November.
Common and Proper Nouns
★ Part A: Multiple Choice
Circle the best answer for each question.
1. Which group of words are ALL common nouns?
A) Mars, Jupiter, Venus
B) chair, spoon, window
C) Tuesday, Sunday, Friday
D) Ohio, Texas, Maine
2. Which sentence has a capitalization mistake?
A) We visited Aunt Rosa last week.
B) The family went to disney World.
C) My brother reads every night.
D) She named her hamster Peanut.
3. The word "mountain" is a common noun. Which of these is a proper noun?
A) the tall mountain
B) Mountains
C) Mount Rushmore
D) a rocky mountain
4. Which pair shows a common noun and its matching proper noun?
A) sing — song
B) planet — Mars
C) cold — warm
D) tall — taller
★ Part B: Fill in the Blank
Write the correct answer on each line.
1) "Disney World" is a proper noun, but "park" alone is a common noun.
2) The proper noun for the common noun "planet" could be Mars.
3) When writing the name of a holiday, the first letter must be capitalized.
4) The word "Nile" is a proper noun that names a specific river.
5) Proper nouns for months include June, August, and November.
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