Lesson Plan Template ED 3501 Curriculum Overview Lesson

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Grade 2 Writers Workshop Nouns 2

Brandy Old
Nov. 25, 2105
1:27 2:25

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
GLO 1: students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts,
ideas, feelings, and experiences.
SLO 1.1 (Discover and Explore) Experiment with language and forms: use a variety
of oral, print, and other media texts to organize and give meaning to experiences, ideas,
and information.
GLO 4: students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to enhance the clarity
and artistry of communication.
SLO 4.2 (Attend to Conventions) Attend to grammar and usage: identify nouns
and verbs, and use it in own writing.
Students will:
1. Discover nouns in written text.
2. Identify common and proper nouns.
3. Create original writing using proper and common nouns.

ASSESSMENTS
Observations:

Key Questions:

Products/Performances:

Did students understand texts help us develop our

language skills?
Do they know what a noun is?
Can they create their own thoughts and write about them?
Were they able to speak loud enough for class to hear?
What is a noun?
What is a proper noun?
What is a common noun?
How did our picture book help us know what nouns
are?
How can we nurture our thoughts to become good
writing ideas?
Products: sentences with nouns and of different
types.
Performance: share sentences with class.

LEARNING RESOURCES CONSULTED

Book lists from speed dating
Alberta program of studies

MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

A Fink, A Mink, A Skating Rink by
Brian Cleary
What do you do with an idea? By Kobi
Yamada
2 types of sentences cut-outs (26
copies students pick)
Types of nouns sheet (26 copies)
Posters of punctuation types
Smart board chart
Activity instructions.
Words sheet

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PROCEDURE
Introduction
Attention Grabber
Transition to Body
Learning Activity #1
Adapted from a template created by Dr. K. Roscoe

Read A Mink, A Fink, A Skating Rink

What is a noun?
Body
Common and proper nouns.

Tim
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10
min
Tim
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12

Assessments/ Differentiation

Learning Activity #2

Assessments/ Differentiation

Learning Activity #3

Assessments/ Differentiation

Assessment of Learning:

Transition To Next Lesson

Adapted from a template created by Dr. K. Roscoe

Lesson Plan Template ED 3501 Curriculum Overview Lesson

- Display seal and balls for mini lesson on
common and proper nouns.
- T-chart on smartboard
- Read words from sheet. (24) and have students
min
place checkmarks under common or proper
nouns.
- Model
- Ask each student 1 word
- What is a common noun?
- What is a proper noun?
Nouns cut-out:
- Hand out sheet.
- Read through as class.
- What is different about common and proper
10
nouns?
min
- Ask students to highlight important words.
- Aske students to add 1 common nouns and one
proper noun to their chart (beside on page)
Were students able to highlight? If struggling, pair with
a student who is finished to help them. What is a
proper noun?
Read: what to do with an idea by Kobi Yamada to help
students think of writing ideas independently.
- Discuss how to nurture ideas.
- Pick 1 of the 2 sentence type handouts.
15
- Review punctuation and sentence types.
min
- Model how to complete activity.
- Write a sentence for each flap.
- Highlight each common noun in yellow
- Highlight each proper noun in green
- Did students use proper and common nouns in
sentences?
- Did students use proper punctuation for
sentence types?
- Did students highlight appropriate nouns?
Closure/Cliffhanger
Tim
e
Were students able to successfully transfer sentence
type information from last workshop? Were the
students able to increase their knowledge of nouns? *If
struggling with identifying common vs. proper, have
students just focus on nouns.
When finished we are working on independent writing.
Reflections

Lesson Plan Template ED 3501 Curriculum Overview Lesson

What went well? What changes
would you make in your
planning? What have you
learned to improve upon future
instruction?

Adapted from a template created by Dr. K. Roscoe