Common or Proper Noun?

Teacher
Name:
Meg O'D

Grade: Grade 6

Subject: Special Education

Topic: Determine whether a noun is common or proper.

Content: Language Arts
Students will be able to recognize the difference between
Goals:
common and proper nouns: will know to capitalize proper only.
Students will be able to recognize and capitalize proper nouns
Objectives:
with 90% accuracy.
Materials: worksheet, pencil, brain for each student
Write school address on the board, without capitalizing the name
of school, street, city or state. Tell students we're going to be
Introduction:
focusing on nouns today - refer to and restate noun definition. As a
whole class, underline nouns. Then ask if anything looks funny?
Some nouns are special, they're called proper nouns. Uncover
proper noun poster with definition: the name of a specific or
particular person, place or thing. Proper nouns get capital letters.
Development:
Do we need any capital letters in our school's address? Are there
any names of specific people, places or things? As a class, circle
letters that should be capitalized.
Now, is every noun a proper noun? No! Some nouns are proper
nouns - restate definition - some are common nouns, they aren't
names of specific people, places or things. We're going to look at
Practice:
this list of nouns and decide which are common and which are
proper. We'll capitalize the proper nouns and we'll leave the
common nouns alone.
G.B. - will only complete first half of page. K.J., M.W., K.H. - will
Accommodations: write their own list of common and proper nouns and 3 sentences
using each.
Students will complete an exit slip worksheet with 5 questions
Checking For about nouns. 1. Common or proper? ice cream 2. Common or
Understanding: proper? disney world 3. Common or proper? dr. cox 4. Capitalize
the proper noun: (1) orange, pencil, synder gym, book 5. Capitalize
 the proper nouns: (2) coke, computer, backpack, classroom, ms.
warren, teacher, student
Are all nouns proper nouns? What's the definition of a proper noun?
Closure:
What kind of noun gets a capital letter? Nice work!
Evaluation: Collect and grade worksheets and exit slips.