Name: Shea Riley
Email: msriley@bsu.edu
Classroom Teacher: Mrs. Clevenger
EDEL 200 Section: 007/A1
Grade: 2 nd
Objective: The students will distinguish between a person, place, or thing, when talking about nouns.
Indiana State Standard: Standard 6- Grammar
Identify and correctly write various parts of speech, including nouns (words that name people, places, or things) and verbs (words that express action or help make a statement).
Standard Indicator: 2.6.4
Content:
1.
Explain why a person, place, or thing must be capitalized.
2.
Distinguish the differences between a person place or thing
3.
Distinguish the differences between objective, subjective, and possessive nouns.
Materials: computer, poster, markers, Popsicle sticks, scissors, block paper, and blank pieces of paper, construction paper.
I.
Motivation: Make a PowerPoint of pictures that are of people, places, and things, and have them identify what they are.
Ask students what they think we are going to be talking about
Ask what they know about nouns.
Goal for learner: Today in class we are going to be discussing nouns, and the different types of nouns there are. At the end of the day each of you will be able to tell if a noun is a person, place, or thing, and what kind of noun it is!
Let’s get started!
II.
Procedure:
New information:
 A noun is a word used to identify the name of a person, place, or thing.
 A proper noun is a specific person, place, or thing.
 A proper noun would be a name, such as: Grace Kelly.

 Another example of a proper noun would be a place, such as: Paris,
France.
 Proper nouns are almost always capitalized. (For example:
Samantha Molnar, Indiana, English)
 Common nouns name everything else, which are usually not capitalized. (For example: dog, picture, the)
 It all depends on how the sentence is structured.
 Things are not always capitalized.
Check for understanding:
What is a noun?
Why do we capitalize a person’s name?
Why do we capitalize a place?
What are some examples of nouns?
Are things capitalized?
Guided practice:
The students will come up with one example of a person, place, and thing. Then under each column on the block paper the students will write their examples.
Modeling:
I will make three different columns on the block paper, labeled person, place, and thing. Then I will give one example of each and write them on the block paper under the correct category.
Check for understanding:
As students are working, I will observe them and ask them questions related to this topic.
Practice:
Using Popsicle sticks that will each have a sentence written on them, the students will identify the noun(s) on each stick. Each student will receive two Popsicle sticks.
Each student will underline the noun(s). Then on a different blank paper the students will write the nouns and state if it is a person, place, or thing.
Modeling:
Using a Popsicle stick I will identify the noun(s) on it, then using a different piece of paper I will if the noun(s) is a person, place, or thing.
Checking for understand:
As the students are working, I will be observing to see if they understand the material.
New information:
 A pronoun is used in place of a noun or nouns.
 Common pronouns include: him, her, she, he, us, we, them, and I

 A subjective pronoun is the subject in the sentence.
 It performs the action of the verb. (For example: He spends ages looking out the window.) He is the pronoun is the sentence.
 An objective pronoun is the object of the sentence.
 It receives the action of the verb. (For example: Cousin Molly gave me a present.) Me is the pronoun in the sentence.
 A possessive pronoun tells you who owns something. (For example:
The red blanket is mine.) Mine would be the possessive pronoun.
Check for understanding:
What are some examples of a common pronoun?
What does a pronoun do?
What is an example of a subjective, objective, and possessive pronoun?
Guided practice: At the student’s table each student will have a sentence strip that has a pronoun in it. Around the room is a sign for possessive pronouns, objective pronouns, and subjective pronouns. The students will place their sentence under the sign that they think matches their sentence.
Modeling: I will take a sentence strip, and place it under the sign I think is appropriate. For example if my sentence strip says “the red blanket is mine.” Mine is the possessive pronoun, therefore I would place it under the possessive sign.
Checking for understanding:
As each student is putting their sentences up I will go around and observe and ask them why they put their sentence under the sign they did.
Practice: The students will create a flipbook of possessive, objective, and subjective pronouns. The students will take three pieces of paper and fold it into a book. On the front of each page the students will write possessive, objective, and subjective. The students then will write examples of each under the categories. When they flip it up they will see their examples.
Modeling: I will create a flipbook of my own and demonstrate step-by-step how to make it. I will give students one example.
Checking for understanding:
While the students are working, I will go around and observe the work they are doing.
Assessment:
 Each student will receive a packet of twelve nouns. The students will have to put each noun under the correct label of a person, place, or thing.
Closure:
You have learned a lot to day about nouns! Could someone tell me what a noun is?
Can anyone tell me two nouns? What kinds of nouns are capitalized?

Extension:
Using a blank piece of paper, each student will fold it “hotdog” style. Then each student will cut three segments on one side of the paper. On those three segments the students will write person, place, and thing. Under each of those categories the students will write or draw five nouns that they do or see in their life.
Evaluation:
5 pts 4 3 2 1 0
Nouns Placed all nouns under the correct category
Placed 8 of the nouns under the correct category
Placed 6 of the nouns under the correct category
Placed 4 of the nouns under the correct category
Placed 2 of the nouns under the correct category
Placed 0 of the nouns under the correct category