This self-guided exercise can be handed to a student without explanation. Use as a worksheet, pretest, formative assessment, quiz, reteach or extra practice. Meant as a review of the basics, this page briefly explains the differences between proper and common nouns. Next, the middle section shows examples of proper nouns, leading students to write their own. They will write 10 total, for easy grading. In the final section, students see examples of common nouns, then write their own. They