1st Grade Proper Nouns Lesson Plan (English)

Topic: Introducing proper nouns and understanding the difference between proper nouns and common nouns

Objectives & Outcomes

• Students will be able to identify proper nouns in a given sentence.
• Students will be able to use proper nouns in their own sentences.

Materials

• Pencils
• Paper
• Sentence strips with proper nouns and common nouns

Warm-up

• Review the concept of nouns and ask students to give examples of different types of nouns they know, such as people, places, and things.
• Show the students a sentence strip with a proper noun and a common noun on it and have them guess which is which.
• Continue this with a few more sentence strips until all students understand the difference between proper nouns and common nouns.

Direct Instruction

• Introduce the concept of proper nouns and explain that these are nouns that refer to specific people, places, or things.
• Show the students more sentence strips with proper nouns and common nouns and ask them to identify which is which.
• As a class, discuss the importance of proper nouns and how they help us to identify and refer to specific people, places, or things.

Guided Practice

• Have the students work in pairs and give each pair a set of sentence strips with proper nouns and common nouns.
• Have the students take turns using the scissors to cut out the proper nouns, and then have them glue the proper nouns onto the matching sentence strips.
• After the students have finished, have a class discussion about the proper nouns they have added and how they help to identify and refer to specific people, places, or things.

Independent Practice

• Have the students work in small groups and create a poster or collage with pictures and words of proper nouns they know.
• Ask the groups to present their posters or collages to the class, explaining the meaning of the proper nouns they have included.

Closure

• Review the importance of proper nouns in our lives and how we can use them to identify specific people, places, and things.
• Ask the students to share one thing they learned about proper nouns today.

Assessment

• Observe the students during independent practice to ensure that they are able to correctly identify proper nouns and use them in sentences.
• Collect and review the students' class book pages to assess their understanding of proper nouns.