Topic: Common Nouns
Objective
By the end of the
lesson students
will have;
- categorized
the given
nouns into
 Names
 Places
 Things
- used the
appropriate
categories
of nouns to
complete the
Area of Development: Language and Literacy
Methodology
Recall: Remind the children of the type of nouns they have
learned, proper and common nouns. Ask the students to give
examples of nouns. Discuss how all these words include names
of all the people we know, all of the places we have been to,
and all of the things or objects we have. Give concrete
examples, such as, “A teacher is person, so I must be a noun. A
school is a place, so our school must be a noun. This table is a
thing, so the table must be a noun too.”
Activity plan: Play the Noun Game. Have students sit on their
chairs/on the mat. Give each student an alphabet. Call out any
alphabet and give instructions “give me a person name with
letter ‘a’/ give me a name of a place with letter ‘b’.” Student
with that alphabet card can provide the names. Make a list of
these words on the board.
Make a chart with 3 columns on the board, labeled ‘People’,
‘Places’ and ‘Things’. Ask the children to sort this name list into
the above mentioned categories.
Follow up Activity:
Focus activity (differentiation through task):
Task 1: Children will be asked to write nouns to complete the
sentences. (worksheet #13)
Task 2: Students will draw pictures of a person, a place, and a
thing and name them. (CT)
Reading Literacy: During reading select books to read. They
Time
70 min
10min
(Kindergarten)
Assessment
Resources
Children will be assessed on
their ability to:
Alphabet cards
Pencil
Level reading
Books
White board
and markers to
make a list
categorize the given nouns
into
20min
 Names
 Places
 Things
- use the appropriate
categories of nouns
through completion of
the given worksheet.
25min
Book “A Mink,
a Fink, a
Skating Rink:
What Is a
Noun? By Brian
P. Cleary.
They will be assessed through
observing students when
Worksheet#13
engaged in the activity,
completion of the worksheet
and during class discussion.
Topic: Common Nouns
given
worksheet.
Area of Development: Language and Literacy
take it to do a Noun Hunt and write them in the correct column
(person, place, or thing, common or proper).
Writing Literacy: Play “Pass the Pencil” Have the kids sit in a
circle; one student should be in the middle with his/her closed.
Pass a pencil to students outside of the circle and stop when
the student in the middle claps his/her hands. The student in
the middle will then choose a category (name, place or thing).
The student left holding the pencil he/she has to say 1 noun.
If he/she succeeds, the person in the center stays there. If
the person can’t come up with the noun, they then switch
places with the person in the center of the circle. (AT)
Wrap Up:
Read the book “A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink: What Is a
Noun? by Brian P. Cleary. Lead a discussion about the nouns
mentioned in the books. Explain that nouns are all around us.
Evaluation of students learning
What did they learn?
(Kindergarten)
Note: Sample worksheet for
task 2 can be found at
http://mrslattinskindergarte
n.blogspot.com/2012/04/nou
ns.html
15min
AT = Assistant Teacher
CT = Class Teacher
Evaluation of the teaching
How the lesson went and what would you do differently?
Topic: Common Nouns
What did they actually do?
Or
What were they unable to understand?
Area of Development: Language and Literacy
(Kindergarten)