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Nouns: K to 2nd reading & writing

Nouns: words that name a person, a place, an animal or a thing. A free K to 2nd lesson plan with a hook, practice that links to free activities, and an exit ticket. Copy it and make it yours.

Lesson plan

Goal

  • Students work toward: nouns: words that name a person, a place, an animal or a thing.

Hook (5 min)

  • Ask the class: what do you already know about nouns?
  • Take two or three answers and write them where everyone can see them.

Teach (10 min)

  • Say the big idea in one plain sentence: nouns.
  • Show one example, then one that is not an example, and ask how the two differ.
  • Have students tell a partner the idea in their own words.

Practise (15 min)

  • Choose one for the whole class or let groups pick:
  • Play: Flashcards: Parts of speech (https://peabody.kids/flashcards/la-parts-of-speech)
  • Play: Grammar words (https://peabody.kids/words/c2-grammar)
  • Learn: Practise: naming and doing words (https://peabody.kids/practice/sent/part)
  • Play: Spin: Parts of speech wheel (https://teach.peabody.kids/wheel/parts-of-speech)

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • On a slip or aloud: one thing I learned about nouns, and one question I still have.
  • Sort the slips into: got it, nearly, not yet. Start tomorrow with the last pile.

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