Knox County Schools

TEAM Lesson Plan Template

Teacher: Miss Simmons and Miss Maestri
Class: kindergarten
Course Unit: unit 6
Lesson Title: nouns
LESSON OVERVIEW Summary of the task, challenge, investigation, career-related scenario, problem, or
community link.

Students will be involved in various activities and discussions that help students recognize what a
noun is and how it is used.
STANDARDS Identify what you want to teach. Reference State, Common Core, ACT College
Readiness Standards and/or State Competencies.
6. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when speaking and conventions of
standard English grammar and usage, including capitalization and punctuation, when writing with adult support.
OBJECTIVE Clear, Specific, and Measurable – NOT ACTIVITIES
Student-Friendly
student will be able to recognize and identify common nouns when speaking and in language activities

ASSESSMENT/EVALUATION Students show evidence of proficiency through a variety of assessments.

Aligned with the Lesson Objective
Formative/Summative
Performance-Based/Rubric
Formal/Informal
students will complete a worksheet in which they draw a person, place, or thing demonstrating their
knowledge of what nouns are.

MATERIALS Aligned with the Lesson Objective

Rigorous & Relevant
active board, PowerPoint, monster paper, ispy on board, final assessment noun worksheet, crayons
ACTIVATING STRATEGY Motivator/Hook
An Essential Question encourages students to put forth more effort when faced with
a complex, open-ended, challenging, meaningful and authentic questions.
1. hook,set, or warm up- as my hook for this lesson, I will start with playing ISpy on the active board and
then revealing that all of those objects spotted are nouns. Then I will tell the students the exact
detention of a noun. I will show more examples to let the students understand more

INSTRUCTION Step-by-Step Procedures-Sequence

Discover/Explain – Direct Instruction
Modeling Expectations – “I Do”
Questioning/Encourages Higher Order Thinking
Grouping Strategies
Differentiated Instructional Strategies to Provide Intervention & Extension
● Begin class by playing ISpy on the active board and introduce the lesson topic of nouns
● display short story on the board and demonstrate how to identify nouns in a sentence. Have students volunteer
to highlight nouns in each sentence
● hand out monster activity and give instructions for the partner work and go over it when everyone is done
● hand out individual practice worksheet that will be taken up for assessment
● verbal review, having students repeat what a noun is
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GUIDED & INDEPENDENT PRACTICE “We Do”-“You Do”

Encourage Higher Order Thinking & Problem Solving
Relevance
Differentiated Strategies for Practice to Provide Intervention & Extension
As a class we will identify the nouns in a short passage present on the active board. Students will take turns highlighting nouns in
each sentence. Then the students will be handed a noun activity where they and a partner will put the noun words in the belly of a
monster. Concluding the lesson, students will on their own complete a worksheet asking them to draw and color a person, place and
a thing.

CLOSURE Reflection/Wrap-Up
Summarizing, Reminding, Reflecting, Restating, Connecting
In closing the lesson, we will ask the students to repeat the three categories of a common noun ( person, place
and thing).
CROSS-CURRICULAR CONNECTIONS
The short passage that the students will identify nouns from will be a science
related passage

NOTES: This lesson is normally taught during the first 4.5 weeks of the semester.
Often repeated with Programming and Logic II as a review.