Garden of Pronouns Lesson Plan

Learner and Environmental Factors

Grade Level: 2nd
Content Area: Language Arts

Standards: Strand: Writing

Box Sub Heading: Language in Writing
Standard: W.2.10 Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and
usage when writing.

W.2.10.c Use reflexive pronouns (e.g., myself)

Lesson Performance Objective(s): Students will be able to identify pronouns, and use them
correctly in a sentence. Students will have 5 noun pedals that correspond correctly to their 1
center pronoun, while finishing the sentence “A pronoun is…”.
Materials: Pronoun game cards, Pronoun flower (20), Miss Carpino’s laminated flower, dry
erase marker, eraser, White board, Computer, TV, Projector, Students: pencil, crayons, scissors,
black marker
Background Knowledge Required: Recall what a noun is
Student Grouping(s): Whole group at carpet, Independent work when creating pronoun flower
Anticipatory Set and Purpose: Miss Carpino’s pronoun flower and pronoun cards projecting on
the TV

Introduce the Lesson: Have you guys ever heard of a Garden of Pronouns? Today we are going
to make our own classroom garden.

Instruction:
Stage 1: Can anyone raise their hand and tell me what a noun is? A person, place, thing, or
animal. Correct! So if a noun is a person, place, thing, or idea… A pronoun is something that
takes the place of one or more nouns. Notice the word noun in pronoun? It takes the place in a
sentence that a noun could be/is.
*Go to white board: One example of a pronoun would be he. *write on board, What noun could
he take the place of? Dad, dog, Mr. Davis. *write on board, Those are all great nouns that could
be represented by the pronoun he. Another pronoun we could say is her. *write on board What
noun could her take place of? Mrs. Evans, cat, Mrs. Bedene. *Write on board Correct! Those
would all be nouns that the pronoun her could take the place of. If we have two or more nouns
such as Mrs. Evans and Miss Carpino *write on board, what pronoun could we use to replace
two or more nouns They, Our, Them *write on board. Yes! Words such as they, our, them, theirs
are all pronouns that can be used to represent two or more nouns. Raise your hand if you have
another example of a pronoun, Him, She, We *write on board
Stage 2: *Return back to projector and pull of missing pronoun cards (Projecting each card on
the screen)
Now that we have an idea of what a pronoun is, and examples of pronouns, lets try to use them in
a sentence. The first one is _____ is holding a flower. Looking at the picture and the sentence,
what pronoun would we use? Class- SHE, she is correct. Lets look at another, _____ is holding
an umbrella. Looking at the picture and the sentence what pronoun should be used? Class- HE,
great job class! Lets switch it up this time, on this card we have TWO people holding something.
The sentence reads _____ are holding flowers. Since there are two people in this picture, what
pronoun would we use? Class- THEY, yes! They is correct. This next card is the same situation,
there are TWO people. It says _____ are holding caterpillars. What pronoun would we use to
complete this sentence? Class- WE, yes we could work if you were apart of the group holding the
caterpillar, but since that is not the case we would use THEY to take the place of the two nouns.
*Grab dry erase marker, erase, and flower(project flower on TV)
Today we are going to make a garden of pronouns. Each of us is going to complete a flower. In
the center of that flower we will have our pronoun, I am going to choose she as mine. *write she
in center with marker, each of these pedals are going to have a noun that she could disguise, or
take the place of. My first noun would be dog, *writes dog on a pedal, raise your hand and tell
me another noun I could use? Cat, *writes cat on pedal. yes! Cat is great, she could be used for a
girl cat. What is another? Miss Carpino *writes Miss Carpino on pedal. Yes a person is a noun.
She could be used to take the place of a person’s name. What is another example of a noun that
she could take the place of? Arianna. Yes, that is another name of a person, which is a noun,
therefore she can be used to take the place of it. One last example of a noun, Mom. *writes mom
on pedal. Great job, Mom is a noun, there she can be used when we are wanting to take the place
of saying it. Awesome job friends! Now down at the leave of our flower it says, A pronoun is…
this is where we will come up with our own idea of what a pronoun is. For example, I am going
to say, “A pronoun is a noun in disguise.” Meaning that it takes the place of a noun.

Stage 3: You are now going to apply what we learned about pronouns and create your own
pronoun flower for our garden! You will do exactly like we just did, but choose your own
pronoun and 5 nouns for each of the pedals that the pronoun can take the place of. You are to
write the pronoun, noun, and YOUR own definition of what a noun is in pencil first. Then, trace
over it with a black marker. After all your words are traced with black marker, you will color
your flower with crayons ONLY. Once you have filled out and colored your flower, you may cut
it out. Raise your hand when you are done and I will come around and collect them. DO NOT
forget to put your name on the back of the flower!
 Differentiation
 Assist students with spelling if needed
 Ask student what pronoun they want and redirect where they need to write it. Share with
the student an example of a noun that goes with their pronoun, help them think of
different nouns that can also go with the pronoun.
Assessment/Evaluation:
 Observe to see if their pronoun cards go along with the sentence cards
 Their pronoun flower has 5 corresponding noun pedals that correspond with their 1 center
pronoun, along with their own definition of A pronoun is….
Closure: Now that we understand what a pronoun is, multiple examples of pronouns, and how it
can stand for so many different nouns, we can use this skill in talking with our friends, or when it
comes to our writing. When we are finished with our flowers, we will display our garden of
pronouns for our entire hall to see!
Citation:
Wonders: Grade 2, Unit 5, Teachers Edition. Pg. T52-T53 (2014). McGraw Hill.

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