2.11.D.iii
The Standard
singular, plural, common, and proper nouns
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading · The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions.
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students find nouns while rereading a draft. They decide what each noun names, then fix plural forms and capitalization where needed.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students find nouns in their own drafts and decide whether each names one, more than one, or a specific person, place, or thing. They correct plural spelling and capitalization without changing the sentence's meaning.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may capitalize every noun or leave names of specific people, pets, and places lowercase. They may add apostrophes to make plurals or miss endings such as es and ies.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Rewrite “mia has two puppys and one cat named whiskers.” Then underline common nouns and circle proper nouns.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs sentence strips and noun cards, then have them replace, sort, and correct nouns with colored pencils.
Ask students to explain why “dog” and “Rover” need different capitalization, then write one sentence using both.
Play Noun Editor Bingo: call out an error, and students cover the corrected noun on their boards.
Edit a pretend class newsletter, correcting names, place names, and nouns that name more than one item.
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