What's more fun than an afternoon at an art auction? A morning with a grammar worksheet! After reading a short story about Jillian's trip to the art auction, learners jot down every noun from the passage, labeling each one as either proper or common.

Concepts

nouns, parts of speech

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Assign for homework after a lesson on nouns
• Project onto the board for a warm-up 
• Have learners use the passage to write their own paragraphs, noting the different nouns they use 

Classroom Considerations

• Let students know that some nouns should be listed more than once
• Text complexity is best suited for second or third graders
• Learners may need more space for their responses
• Frontload vocabulary such as auction or Monet for English learners

Pros

• Answer key makes it easy to assess progress quickly

Cons

• None

Common Core

L.1.1.a