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Down With the Nouns

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Author:LaTonya Barnes
System: Birmingham City
School: Princeton School
The event this resource created for:CCRS
  General Lesson Information  
Lesson Plan ID: 33122

Title:

 Down With the Nouns

Overview/Annotation:

Students will learn nouns by using an interactive sorting game. Students will compete with each other by putting noun cards down on the floor categorized by person, place, animal, or thing. Students will have to read and sort the cards. The student with no noun cards first, wins!

This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.

 Associated Standards and Objectives 
Content Standard(s):
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: K
36. When speaking and writing, follow the rules of standard English grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and grade-appropriate spelling.

a. With prompting and support, transcribe spoken words to demonstrate that print represents oral language.

b. With prompting and support, compose a simple sentence, including necessary components to create a complete sentence rather than a fragment.

c. With prompting and support, identify the role or purpose of a noun and a verb within a sentence and the type of information it conveys.

d. With prompting and support, write the correct number of words, with proper spacing, for a spoken phrase or sentence.

e. With prompting and support, begin each sentence with a capital letter.

f. With prompting and support, capitalize the pronoun I and names of individuals.

g. With prompting and support, recognize, name, and correctly use end punctuation.

Examples: period, question mark, exclamation mark
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 1
32. Follow the rules of standard English grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling appropriate to grade level.

a. Identify the required features of a sentence, including capitalization of the first word and end punctuation.

b. Transcribe spoken words to demonstrate that print represents oral language.

c. Compose a simple sentence, including a subject and a predicate, that expresses a complete thought.

d. With prompting and support, identify the role or purpose of a noun, verb, and adjective within a sentence and describe the type of the information it conveys.

e. Write the correct number of words, with proper spacing, for a spoken phrase or sentence.

f. Begin each sentence with a capital letter.

g. Capitalize the pronoun I and names of individuals.

h. Use commas in dates and words in a series.

i. With prompting and support, recognize, name, and correctly use end punctuation, utilizing appropriate academic vocabulary.

Example: period for declarative sentences, question mark for interrogative sentences, exclamation mark for exclamatory sentences
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 2
45. Demonstrate understanding of standard English language conventions when writing.

a. Identify the role of a noun, verb, adjective, and adverb within a sentence and explain the type of the information it conveys.

b. Form regular nouns and verbs by adding -s or -es.

c. Form and use simple present and past verb tenses.

d. Form plurals by changing -y to -ies.

e. Form and use frequently-occurring irregular plural nouns and verbs.

f. Use plural possessives.

Local/National Standards:

  

Primary Learning Objective(s):

Students will be able to:

  • Identify proper and common nouns

  • Categorize nouns

  • Read and sort nouns

  • Make visual representations of nouns

  • Write sentences about nouns

Additional Learning Objective(s):

  
 Preparation Information 

Total Duration:

31 to 60 Minutes

Materials and Resources:

  • 5 Colored Index Cards

  • 40 White Index Cards

  • Tape

  • Markers

  • Crayons

  • Pencils

  • Newspapers

  • Magazines

  • Book: A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink: What Is a Noun? by Brian Cleary

Technology Resources Needed:

Computer with Internet access

Background/Preparation:

  • Teacher will make noun cards using index cards. 

  • Five colored index cards will be labeled: Nouns, Person, Place, Animal, and Thing. 

  • Forty white cards: 10 names referring to people, 10 names referring to a place, 10 names referring to an animal, and 10 names referring to a thing.

  Procedures/Activities: 

Motivation/Introduction

  1. Teacher will read A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink: What Is a Noun? by Brian Cleary.

  2. The teacher will explain that nouns are divided into four groups: person, place, animal, and thing.

  3. The class will discuss nouns in the story.

Teaching/Learning Activities

  1. Students will play an interactive sorting game.

  2. The teacher will tape on the floor the five colored index cards entitled: Nouns (top) with the four categories under the title labeled Person, Place, Animal, and Thing.

  3. The teacher will explain that the objective of this game is that the noun cards be placed under the correct categories.

  4. The teacher will select two students to play “Down with the Nouns”.

  5. Each student will receive 20 cards.

  6. Students will compete with each other by putting noun cards down on the floor categorizing them by person, place, animal, or thing. Students will have to read and sort the cards quickly. The student with all the nouns down first wins!

  7. The teacher will gather the cards and select other students to play.

Closure

  1. Once the children understand that nouns are divided into categories, students will create their own list or picture chart of nouns. Students will make five visual representations of nouns for each category and write sentences about the nouns.

  2. As a closing activity, students can play any of the following online games:

    http://www.softschools.com/language_arts/grammar/noun/balloon_game/

    http://www.abcya.com/nouns_and_verbs.htm

    http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/grammar/nouns.htm


  Assessment  

Assessment Strategies

Formative Assessment:

  • Students will make drawings of nouns.

  • Assess individual charts constructed by students for student understanding.

Informal Assessment:

  • Oral Assessment

  • Visual Assessment

Acceleration:

  • Teacher may make additional noun cards as an extension lesson.

  • Students may create a visual noun chart by cutting out pictures from magazines and newspapers.

Intervention:

  • Demonstrate the procedure over again as needed.

  • Limit noun categories to two.

  • Students with learning disabilities will be provided a designated peer reader and helper, as well as providing assistance with proofing classwork.

  • ELL students will have reduced length in written assignments and be allowed more time to complete written assignments. These students are also allowed to work with a partner.

  • ESL students will be provided a model, as well as visual aids. Students' work will be modified as well as given extra time to complete tasks.


View the Special Education resources for instructional guidance in providing modifications and adaptations for students with significant cognitive disabilities who qualify for the Alabama Alternate Assessment.