Grade Level: 3rd

BYUI Student Name: Meagan

Grade
Nelson
Lesson Type: Unit 4 Lesson 17
Performance Level:
Group Size:
Whole
Review
On
CCSS: Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general
and their functions in particular sentences. CCSS. 3.1.a
Topic: Proper Nouns

Curricular objective/s: SWBAT correctly identify a proper noun when given an example
sentence on a worksheet.
Curricular assessment: Using a worksheet with various sentence examples, I will be
able to identify whether or not the students can identify a proper pronoun in a given
sentence.
CCSS for the sheltered instruction (language acquisition) objective: Acquire and
use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and
phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships (e.g., After dinner that night
we went looking for them). CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.6

Language sheltered instruction (language acquisition) objective: SWBAT use

grammatically correct phrases and words in a conversational setting with 90-100%
accuracy.
Language sheltered instruction (language acquisition) assessment: I will have a
conversation with the students to determine whether or not they are using correct
grammar.
Vocabulary terms and definitions:
Nouns: Person, Place or Thing
Proper Nouns: a name used for an individual person, pet, or place, spelled with initial
capital letters
Common Nouns: Not a specific or individual person, pet, or place. Ie: teacher, dog, girl.
Materials: Whiteboard, Marker, Worksheets
Accommodations: For those students who are struggling to identify proper nouns on the
worksheet, they will be given brief one-on-one time to receive scaffolding to help them
better understand the topic.
Management
Behavioral
Transitions: Students
Fast Finishers: If students
Expectations: Students
will quietly come to the
finish their assignments early,
who are answering
kiva for the lesson.
they will be told beforehand to
questions must raise their
When we are done at the pull out their reading books and
hand when before they
kiva, children will go
read until everyone else is done.
speak and will be quiet and quietly row by row back
respectful going to and
to their seats.
leave the kiva.
Attention Signal: If you
Material
Grouping: This is a whole group
can hear my voice, clap
Management: I will
lesson.
once.
leave a stack of the
worksheets at the center
of the tables for the
students to retrieve
upon returning to their
desks.
Time
Sequence of Lesson

2:00 min

2:00 min

2:00 min

4:00 min

2:00 min

1:00 min

Anticipatory Set: Write the following sentence on the board: My name is

ms.nelson. Ask, whats wrong with this sentence?
Access Prior Knowledge: Tell students we're going to be focusing on
nouns today - refer to and restate noun definition. Ask the question, why
does my name have to be capitalized? Because its a name/title. I am a
specific person.
Input & Modeling: Explain that proper nouns are specific people, pets or
place. Write on the board and explain, teacher is not a proper noun. Mrs.
Nelson is a proper noun. Use the following examples to write on the board:
restaurant, Burger King
dog, Skip
city, Chicago
girl, Susie
Explain that all proper nouns are capitalized in a sentence. If it is a place,
then all the first letters need to be capitalized (ie: Burton Elementary
School).
Check for understanding of the input: Ask students for a few examples
of proper pronouns, specific people, pets or places to write on the board.
Write the sentence:
My sister Lily has a cat name Calico who live with us in our house in
Houston. As a class, underline the proper noun that need to be capitalized.
Then ask all students to show with their thumbs if they understand what a
proper pronoun is.
Guided practice: Students will return to their seats and receive a
worksheet. We will go over the first 2 examples as a class. Have a volunteer
read the first one. After the first 2, have the class finish the rest of the
worksheet on their own. Discuss or go over the answers of the rest of the
worksheet if need be.
Closure: Ask a volunteer to tell me what a proper pronoun is. Ask for an
example of a sentence including a proper pronoun of a person, a pet and
then a place.
To be collected: Students will stack their worksheets in the center of the
table and one student will bring the stack to the kiva.