Lesson Plan
I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Pronouns!
If your students are screaming, make sure they are grammatically correct! In this pronoun lesson plan, your students will identify and use a variety of pronouns to replace common and proper nouns.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to identify and use pronouns to complete sentences.
Introduction
(7 minutes)- Ask, "What is a noun?" With students, come up with a definition and write it on the board. (Example: A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea.)
- Divide a piece of chart paper into two columns. Label the left column nouns, leaving the right column blank.
- With student input, generate a list of nouns, and record the list on the left column of the chart paper. Be sure to include proper nouns, common nouns, and plural nouns (e.g. California, Alonso, chair, car, Mom and Dad, the dogs and cats).
- Using a proper noun from the list, write a sentence or two on the board with no pronouns. (Example: Alonso ran to get Alonso's ball from Alonso's room. Then Alonso went outside to play with Alonso's friends.)
- Ask students what they think about the sentence(s) you wrote on the board. Support them in understanding that it is repetitive.
- Explain that today we are going to learn about a part of speech called a pronoun, which we use to keep sentences from being too repetitive.