Nouns Lesson Plan: Conventions of Standard English
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This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP Jr. topic Nouns, and supports the standard of using common, proper, and possessive nouns. Students demonstrate understanding through a variety of projects.
Step 1: ACTIVATE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
Ask students:
- What do you see in the classroom that might be a noun? How do you know?
Step 2: BUILD KNOWLEDGE
- Play the Nouns movie.
- Click the pause button each time a question appears in Annie’s Notebook and discuss it as a class. Then play to see how Annie answers it.
TIP: The pause button turns red to remind you to pause.
Step 3: APPLY and ASSESS
Students take the Easy Quiz or Hard Quiz, demonstrating what they learned about the topic while applying essential literacy skills.
Step 4: DEEPEN and EXTEND
Students express what they learned about nouns while practicing essential literacy skills with one or more of the following activities. Differentiate by assigning ones that meet individual student or grade-level needs.
- Draw About It: Draw pictures of nouns you see around you.
- Activity: Follow directions to color the picture of a penguin.
- Talk About It: Write a noun that begins with each letter of the alphabet.
- Write About It: Write about recess. Print the story to circle the nouns and underline the proper nouns.
More to Explore
Word Unit: Continue to build understanding around parts of speech by exploring more BrainPOP Jr. topics.
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