Circle the Nouns in Sentences Worksheet for 1st Grade

About this worksheet

Eight short sentences, each about something a six-year-old knows well: a puppy napping in the sun, a sister on a bike, a bus stopping at school, a frog on a rock. The rule sits right above them (a noun names a person, an animal, a place or a thing) and the child circles every noun they can find.

The instruction says noun or nouns on purpose. Most of the sentences hold two, so a child who circles puppy and moves on has only done half the line. Ben in sentence three is a good one to talk about, because a name is a noun too, and sentence five starts with We, which is not.

It is a good first step from sorting single words into finding nouns inside a sentence, where they sit next to verbs and little words like the and a.

What students will practice

• Find the nouns inside a real sentence
• Keep looking after the first noun, since most sentences hold two
• Tell a noun from a word like we

Details

Grade level

Grade 1

Subject

Reading · Grammar

Standard

L.1.1b

Pages

1

Format

PDF · US Letter and A4 included

License

Free for classroom use · Attribution appreciated

Last updated

September 13, 2026