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Common and Proper Nouns
Common and Proper Nouns
Common and Proper Nouns
students will be familiar with ways of identifying common and proper nouns such as
the following: proper nouns are capitalized; common nouns are not capitalized unless
at the beginning of a sentence. Common nouns are more general, and proper nouns
are specific
The common nouns are characters, town, local college. The proper
nouns are Drake Doyle, Nell Fossey, Mossy Lake, and Mossy Lake
University
c. During: Give students about 10 to 15 minutes (depending on how much time is left in
the lesson) to create at least three sentences independently on the topic of a book
that they are reading. They have to include 3 proper nouns, and three common
nouns. Once time is up, have the students switch with their partners, and the partner
will circle what the proper nouns are, and they will underline what the common nouns
are.
Be sure to have students repeat the directions to you and the class to ensure understanding of
what needs to be done.
Once students are done, they will return the notebooks to their partners, and read as
an indicator for the teacher to know how many students are done
IV. After: Call on students to read a sentence that they have written using their irregular
plural noun
V. Materials and Equipment: whiteboard and dry erase marker for teacher, notebooks
and pencils for students.
VI. Assessment/Evaluation: students will be assessed on the following
a. Student has at least three sentences with at least three different irregular plural
nouns
b. Student has correctly identified their partners’ irregular plural nouns. This will be
recorded after notebooks are collected and graded
c. There is a final assessment at the end of the unit
VII. VII. Differentiation: create example sentences for students to pick out and copy into
VIII. Technology: no technology is needed for this lesson
IX. Self-Assessment: to be completed after lesson
Lesson Plan Format:
II. Instructional Objective: After review of what students have learned about common
and proper nouns, students will be able to identify which nouns are common and
which ones are proper, out of 24 given nouns
III. Instructional Procedures:
Before: Review examples of common and proper nouns, and introduce the task card activity for
the task card activity, students will be given a recording sheet, and explain to them that they will
be looking for cards around the room. The cards will have numbers on them, so they will write the
plural form in the corresponding number box.
During: spread out task cards around the room, and have students rotate around the room in
order to look for them, once they are finished they will go back to their seat to read as an
indication of them being done.
Materials and Equipment: a recording sheet for each student, task cards, that have a single
noun written on them, projector camera, pencils
Assessment/Evaluation: students will be assessed on the amount of common and proper nouns
that they identify correctly, there are 12 of each
VII. Differentiation: create a separate board that stops at 18 instead of 24. The numbers will still
match the correct task card, but for selected students their task board will not have as many
boxes.