Snowman Grammar           
 

Snowman Story Worksheet for Nouns, Pronouns, and Verbs

For the Teacher:

This worksheet is best for older students with some experience working with the parts of speech. It can be used for nouns, pronouns or adjectives. (You can use it for other parts of speech, or as a reading selection by changing the instructions.) Select the set of instructions that are appropriate for your assignment.

How to use this worksheet: Copy and paste these sentences into a word processing program. Erase the instructions that don't apply to your use of the story, and these instructions. You can personalize the story by changing the gender or name of the child. You can also make the font larger for younger children. If you want to have the child mark the part of speech differently, simply change the wording. If a child has small motor skills challenges, he can tell you the answers. In the student instructions, multiple choices are shown with slashes between them. Erase the choices you don't want, or instruct your student to circle the instructions you select.


For the Student:

Nouns:

Circle the nouns in this story.  Underline the pronouns.

OR

Circle the common nouns in this story. Underline the proper nouns. Highlight the pronouns.

OR

Above each noun, write PE if the noun identifies a person. Write PL if the noun identifies a place. Write I if the noun identifies an idea.

 Verbs: Circle the action verbs. Underline the linking verbs. Draw an arrow to show who is doing the action.

 Cassie's Snowman

Cassie woke up very early on Tuesday. She looked out the window. It was snowing. "Snow!" she shouted. Quickly, she put on a warm shirt, jeans, socks and boots. She ran downstairs. "I am going outside," she told her mother.

"Not until you have had your breakfast," her mother said. Cassie sighed, but sat at the table and quickly ate her oatmeal and drank her juice. Then she hurried outside. She gathered some snow in her hands and began to make a ball with it.

 Did she want to make snowballs or a snowman? Snowballs were more fun when there were other children to play with. She decided to make a snowman. She put her ball on the ground and began to roll it until it was very large. She put a second ball on top of it, and a smaller one on the very top to be the head.

But what could she use to make the face? Most children in her neighborhood used stones and carrots, but Cassie liked to be different. She closed her eyes and tried to imagine a really unusual snowman. Then she laughed. She knew just what to use.

She ran into the house and got a box. She put everything she needed into the box. Then she went into the yard and began to decorate her snowman. She was going to make a space snowman. She used star-shaped cookie cutters for his eyes. She used a lemon cut into the shape of a moon for the mouth. She had a comet decoration in her bedroom window and she used it to make a funny-looking nose. Toy rockets stuck out the sides to be his arms. The sun hat she had made in first grade when she was in a play about the solar system went on his head. Her little models of the planets decorated his snow clothing.

She named him Sunny and ran to get her camera. She took a picture of her solar snow friend with her digital camera to put on her space web site and then ran back into the house for hot chocolate and warm cookies.