http://hightestscores.org Practical Strategies for Co-taught, Inclusive, and Differentiated Classrooms! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:04:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://hightestscores.org/2008/09/teaching-nouns-teacher-in-the-trash/ http://hightestscores.org/2008/09/teaching-nouns-teacher-in-the-trash/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:12:54 +0000 Susan Fitzell http://susanfitzell.edublogs.org/?p=80 Teaching Nouns with Humor

When I teach nouns to my resource students, I always begin with this concrete strategy. With a regular trash can in the front of my room I drop a pencil, book, eraser, etc into the can. I then tell them these are all “things”, and all “things” are nouns! I then step into the can and let them know that a teacher is a “person” and a “person” is a noun. They laugh and laugh and never have trouble understanding the abstract of what a noun is because they understand the concrete! I also have them envision a huge can large enough to put Texas, the earth, or the universe in because they are nouns too!
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Jill Avery
Helena Park Elem
Nederland, TX

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