Rachael McBeth

Unit Plan: Nouns and Verbs

Standards
SL.K.4 Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support,
provide additional detail.

L.K.5 With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word
meanings.
b. Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to
their opposites (antonyms).

L.K.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when
writing or speaking.
b. Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs.

Big Ideas
● Words have different parts and jobs to play.
● Nouns and verbs are needed to make a complete sentence.

Topic
● Nouns and Verbs

Key Understandings:
I want my students to understand that….
● Nouns are part of a sentence that name a person, place or thing.
● Verbs are words that describe an action.
● The difference between a noun and verb.

Essential Questions
● What are nouns?
● What are examples of nouns?
● What are verbs?
● What are examples of verbs?

Know
● A noun is a person, place or thing.
● A verb is an action.

Understand
● We want children to understand that words are important

Do
● Be able to differentiate between people, places, and things.
● Differentiate between a noun and verb.
 ● Write a sentence with help using a noun and verb.

Assessment Plan
● Stick by KUD
● Pre-Assessment
★ On the chalkboard the words noun and verb will be written. The students will be sitting
in the kiva, and the two words will be pointed out to them. They will be asked if they
know what a noun and a verb are, and teacher will listen to their answers.
● Formative Assessment
★ Students will be able to sort pictures of nouns into groups of people, places, and things.
★ When given a picture of a noun, students will be able to sort the nouns into groups of
people, places, or things.
★ Students will select a “Verb Card” from a bag and look at the picture which shows an
action. Underneath the picture, a word will be typed. If needed, the students can ask
the teacher to help them identify the action in the picture. They will then show the card
to the class and everyone will perform the action.
★ Students will be able to correctly identify nouns and verbs, and will differentiate between
a noun and a verb as they play the “Fly Swatter” game and correctly identify a noun or a
verb, depending on what the teacher asked.
★ Students will be asked to give specific examples of nouns. For example, they will give
examples of people they know, places they have been, or
● Summative Assessment
★ Students will be asked to identify nouns and verbs and give specific examples of each.
★ Performance tasks: Given a worksheet with pictures of nouns and verbs, students will
correctly circle the nouns with one color of crayon, and the verbs with another color of
crayon.
★ With assistance, students will write a sentence using a noun and a verb.

Pre-Assessment:
For our pre-assessment, will have the words noun and verb written on the board. When our
mentor teacher introduces new vocabulary, she has the new vocabulary words written on the
board and reads the words aloud to the students, asking if they might know what the word
means. By doing this she has an understanding of words they know, and words they have not
yet learned. As we ask the students about nouns and verbs, and ask for examples, we will have
baseline data of their knowledge about nouns and verbs to go off of for our unit.