A common noun is a noun that refers to a general, non-specific person, place, thing, or idea. It is not the name of a particular person, place, or thing. Common nouns are not capitalized unless they begin a sentence.
Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics). (NCTE)