Keystone Project


Zulayka Adamson
EDPC 610
June 26, 2018
                                                                                Keystone Project

During my observation, I became familiar with a student named Timothy who was rather quiet. I noticed during our daily adjectives/pronouns song, Timothy struggled with differentiating what is a noun and a pronoun. I developed three lesson plans that will tackle nouns and pronouns and in the third lesson, students will have the opportunity to compare and contrast the characteristics while identifying some of the common words or things they are familiar with.
Lesson Plan 1
Title:
What’s the noun?
Author:
Zulayka Adamson
Subject:
Grammar
Grade Level(s):
3
Duration:
45 minutes
Subject Area:
English
Unit Description:
Student will understand the characteristics of common and proper nouns and will be able to use and identify within sentences.
Lesson Description for Day:
Text to speech identifying common and proper nouns via flashcards.
State Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1.A
Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.
Goals
Unit Goals:
Build language skills and identifying the appropriate usage of:
1.    Nouns
2.    Pronouns
Lesson Goals:
Students will build on prior knowledge and compare and contrast characteristics of pronouns and nouns.

Methods
Anticipatory Set:
Students will watch a brief video on nouns/common nouns and proper nouns.
Introduce and Model New Knowledge:
Teacher will review the definition and conduct a discussion in which students will identify nouns that are within the classroom and fill out a t-chart.
Provide Guided Practice:
Teacher will provided flashcards of words and ask students to identify which type of noun.
Provide Independent Practice:
Teacher will have students conduct a scavenger hunt within the classroom and have students organize the words they’ve found and identify if they are common or proper nouns by placing them in brown paper bags labels common and proper nouns.

Assessment
Formative/Ongoing Assessment:
The teacher will walk around the classroom and monitor students’ performance and ask any questions regarding
Summative/End of Lesson Assessment:
Students will be provided an exit ticket in which they answer if a word is a common noun and provide an example sentence to show their comprehension.

Materials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQsZr8yrsno (first 4 min)
T-Chart
List of proper and common nouns
Exit worksheet
Pencil

Lesson Plan 2
Title:
Proper Town
Author:
Zulayka Adamson
Subject:
Grammar
Grade Level(s):
3
Duration:
45 minutes
Subject Area:
English
Unit Description:
Student will understand the characteristics of common and proper nouns and will be able to use and identify within sentences.
Lesson Description for Day:
Students will identify proper nouns by capitalizing the appropriate words.
State Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1.A
Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.
Goals
Unit Goals:
Build language skills and identifying the appropriate usage of:
3.    Nouns
4.    Pronouns
Lesson Goals:
Students will build on prior knowledge without relying on clues to what is a common or proper noun.

Methods
Anticipatory Set:
Students will have a brief overview of the previous lesson plan and explain the proper and common noun.

Introduce and Model New Knowledge:
Teacher will have students split into pairs and discuss what are some of the characteristics that help us identify common and proper nouns.
Provide Guided Practice:
Teacher will call upon students to identify 15-20 of the proper and common nouns they shared amongst their group. 
Provide Independent Practice:
Teacher will have students work on a town project which lists out various important landmarks and buildings within their community. During the project students must be able to capitalize the proper nouns to ensure they know which locations are proper or common.


Assessment
Formative/Ongoing Assessment:
The teacher will walk around the classroom and monitor students’ performance and ask any questions regarding
Summative/End of Lesson Assessment:
Students will be provided a rubric to prior to the lesson plan and explain that this will grade their town project.

Materials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kcJzh6gqGM
Construction Paper
Color pencils
rubric
Pencil

Lesson Plan #3
Title:
Replace the pronoun
Author:
Zulayka Adamson
Subject:
Grammar
Grade Level(s):
3
Duration:
45 minutes
Subject Area:
English
Unit Description:
Student will understand the characteristics of proper nouns and will be able to use and identify within sentences.
Lesson Description for Day:
Students will replace nouns with proper pronouns.
State Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1.A
Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.
Goals
Unit Goals:
Build language skills and identifying the appropriate usage of:
5.    Nouns
6.    Pronouns
Lesson Goals:
Students will build on prior knowledge of pronouns and make a connection of what is the appropriate words to use.

Methods
Anticipatory Set:
Students will have a brief overview of the previous lesson plan and explain the proper and common noun.

Introduce and Model New Knowledge:
Teacher will make a connection to how pronouns step in to support nouns within sentences. 
Provide Guided Practice:
Teacher will introduce a paragraph and students will review to see where they can replace pronouns with other suggestions. 

Sample paragraph: “Jessica took the train to Manhattan to go shopping. Jessica purchased two shirts from Old Navy. Jessica went through the express checkout lane. Then, Jessica took a cab home.”
Provide Independent Practice:
Students will work on matching up the appropriate noun with the male and female pronouns.

Jennifer

A burger

Jackson

You and I

children
We

He

It

They

she

Assessment
Formative/Ongoing Assessment:
The teacher will walk around the classroom and monitor students’ performance and ask any questions regarding
Summative/End of Lesson Assessment:
Students will be asked to pair into groups of two and develop sentences with their partner that will provide them an opportunity to share the pronoun replacement for each sentence

Materials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kcJzh6gqGM
Exit quiz
Pencil
Match up list


Comments

  1. Bari PeltonJune 29, 2018 at 11:10 AM

    Hi Zulayka,

    You mentioned this child is extremely quiet but also struggled to differentiate between nouns and pronouns. Did this child speak at all? If not, based on your observations was it due to anxiety, defiance, or confusion? I am also curious to know if this child has any speech (receptive or expressive) language impairments and struggles with other academic areas or if it is just this specific topic that is providing him trouble. What other methods, or differentiation were used to help understand the concepts? Were any interactive games both online or with a peer and him or teacher and him used?

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  2. Briana SosaJuly 2, 2018 at 6:31 PM

    Great job Zulayka, a very detailed and well planned unit. I find that music is a great way to stimulate and engage children at this age. Have you thought of using a song as your anticipatory set? I found this great one online.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWZpLS1I6uM&t=46s

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  3. AnonymousJuly 5, 2018 at 5:31 AM

    Great job organizing your information it is very detailed and broken down very well. I agree that music is a great way to help engage children while they're learning.

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  4. Dr. HsuJuly 5, 2018 at 9:48 AM

    Well thought out and planned. I'd suggest to include more differentiating strategies in content and process.

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