Lesson Plan 3: Common and Proper Nouns
This lesson was performed with my 2nd and 3rd-grade students at my special education placement. Together, my students and I worked on identifying proper nouns, correcting proper nouns, and using them appropriately in sentences. I started the lesson by asking my students what a noun is. Both grades were easily able to identify that a noun is a person, place, or thing. When discussing proper nouns prior to the lesson, none of the students were able to give me a coherent definition of a proper noun, but some of them recognized that their names used capital letters, so they must have been proper nouns. I utilized a whiteboard with my students to show them examples. I ended up coming up with a word and calling on students randomly to identify if the word I chose was a proper noun. The students seemed to love this activity and giggled every time I would point the pencil at them to answer my questions.
I next passed out a worksheet for my students to work on. I have gotten into a habit of working through the front side of a worksheet with my students and then having them independently complete the back. I then later had them do a writing exit ticket utilizing proper nouns in a sentence so the students could show what they learned without the aid of the worksheet. To reinforce the students doing written work, I offered stickers to students who followed my directions and got the answers correct.
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Lesson Plan 4: Plural Nouns
I also worked with 2nd and 3rd grade for this lesson plan. After we finished with proper nouns, I wanted to move right into plural nouns. Many of my students struggle with memory and retaining specific rules. To differentiate their work, I ended up making the students cheat sheets to help them remember when to add s, es, or ies to make a word plural. This accommodation ended up working super well when doing group work and independent work. I continued using my whiteboard and having the students do the front side of the worksheet with me and the back side independently. The accommodation made it so that the students looked at the posters I made so much for them that they eventually naturally memorized the rules and asked me not to pass them out anymore. For the few students who did need additional help, they were able to keep the cheat sheets to help them on additional assignments.
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