Nouns All Around

English Language Arts

Kindergarten
30-45 minutes
Content Information: The students will be learning about nouns. This lesson will talk about
nouns being a person, place or thing. They will work together as a group to work through the
different aspects of nouns.
Vocabulary:

Noun: A person, place or thing

Verb: An action work
Person: a human (friend, parent, sibling, classmate)
Place: a spot in the world (city, school, Washington)
Thing: an item (school bus, plate, baseball)

Standard

Objective

Assessment

Evaluation

Writing Skills: Text

Types and Purposes: 2.
Use a combination of
drawing,dictating and
writing to compose
informative/explanatory
texts in which they
name what they are
writing about and
supply some
information about the
topic.

Students will be
able to create a
chart that shows
the three parts of a
noun (a person,
place or thing).

Formal: Checklist:
Each group must
include 3 nouns in
each category (both
picture and word), 3
categories, student
names.

If a group does not do

so, I will continue to
go through the
different parts of a
noun and continue to
help students to work
through where a noun
fits

Language Skills:
Conventions of
Standard English: 1.
Demonstrate command
of the conventions of
standard English
grammar and usage
when writing or
speaking.: b. Use
frequently occurring
nouns and verbs

Students will be
able to dictate the
difference between
a noun and a verb

Informal:
Observation: I will
watch what my
students choose as a
noun and write down
any occurrences
when a child is really
confused.

If a child struggles
with the difference
between a noun and
a verb, I will continue
to work with them on
the difference by
working one-on-one
with them.

Materials:

Noun and verb cards

Noun and verb chart

Poster board
Markers

Lesson ImplementationAnticipatory Set: Alright Boys and Girls, today we will be talking out nouns. Do you
remember how we compared nouns and verbs yesterday? [wait for responses] I
thought we could look at out noun and verb chart. [shows chart] What is a verb? [waits
for response] Thats right! A verb is an action like run or walk or jump. What is a noun?
[waits for response] Yes! A noun is a person, place or thing. Today, we are going to be
working just nouns and another day we will work on verbs. [shows them a card that
says person] What does this say? [waits for response] Right! [places the person
card on dry erase board and show them a card that says place] How about this
one? [waits for response] Right again! [puts the place card on the dry erase
board and shows them a card that says things] What does this one say? [waits
for response] You are correct. [put the things card on the dry erase board] Alright
boys and girls I have a whole bunch of words here and I thought that we could each take
a turn and put one word under the category it fits under. What word is this? [shows
students the card and waits for response] Youre right it says bus. Is a bus a
person, place, or thing? [waits for response, if students to understand I will explain
the difference between a person, place or thing] Yes it is a thing. [put the bus
card under the things card] Who would like to go next? [I will call on students
until all of the cards are finished]
Teaching, Learning and Assessment Procedure: Now that we finished finding out
which words go where on our chart. Now I am going to split you all into groups of 3 and
each group will make their own poster just like the chart we just made. [I will explain
how we will split the chart up and how to work together, how many words go in
each category] Alright boys and girls when I see you all sitting nicely at your table I will
come over and give your group a piece of poster board.
Closure: While the students are working on their posters, I will walk around and help
each group. When all of the groups have finished I will have each group come up to the
front and present their poster to the class. The students will then hang their posters up
on the wall.
Assessment Data:
Student
Initials

Student
Names

Noun
(picture)

Noun (written)

3 Categories

Group 1
(L.O., A.T.,
C.M.)

Group 2

(A.F., N.K.,
T.T.)

Group 3
(K.M., M.M.,
A.W.)

Group 4
(G.E., K.D.,
K.D.)

Group 5
(S.S., L.D.,
I.N.)

Observations:

S.S. didnt recognize that a giraffe is a thing.

L.D. didnt recognize that a house is a thing.
L.O. didnt recognize that a police officer is a person.