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English Unit: Proper Nouns and List Commas

This unit plan is a comprehensive resource for teaching and assessing proper nouns and list commas in your Year 2 classroom. The unit includes a presentation, games, worksheets, classroom display, quiz and assessment task. The detailed and engaging unit plan requires minimal preparation time and is designed to be progressive and engaging for your class.

This unit plan is a comprehensive resource for teaching and assessing proper nouns and list commas in your Year 2 classroom. The unit includes a presentation, games, worksheets, classroom display, quiz and assessment task. The detailed and engaging unit plan requires minimal preparation time and is designed to be progressive and engaging for your class.

Learning goals

We are learning to recognise that capital letters signal proper nouns and commas are used to separate items in lists.
We are learning to understand the purpose of punctuation in different sentence types.

Curriculum alignment

AC9E2LA10 9 Recognise that capital letters are used in titles and commas are used to separate items in lists ACELA1465 8.4 Recognise that capital letters signal proper nouns and commas are used to separate items in lists

EN1-9B old Uses basic grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary appropriate to the type of text when responding to and composing texts EN1-OLC-01 new Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions EN1-REFLU-01 new Sustains reading unseen texts with automaticity and prosody and self-corrects errors

VCELA225 Recognise that capital letters signal proper nouns and commas are used to separate items in lists

Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.

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Presentation Year: 2

Proper Nouns & List Commas - Presentation

This presentation is an excellent way to introduce proper nouns and list commas to your class. The progressive presentation explains that pr...

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Resource Year: 2

Proper Nouns and List Commas Class Display

This class display is a great way to introduce or reinforce proper nouns and list commas with your lower primary class. The displays provide...

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Resource Year: 2

Proper Nouns and List Commas - Student Reference Card

Print these reference cards for your students so they can easily refer back to the key concepts of proper nouns and list commas. Each card p...

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Resource Year: 2 3 4 5 +2

Commas Poem

This poster has been designed to show students that commas need to be acknowledged when they are reading a text, knowing that commas perform...

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Resource Year: 2 3 4

When to Use Commas Lower

This poster has been designed to show younger students where and how commas are used to punctuate text. It has been created to use as a clas...

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Resource Year: 2

Proper Nouns Poster

This poster gives a great visual explanation of how a proper noun is a naming word used to describe a person, place or thing. Use this poste...

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Resource Year: 2

Proper Nouns - Editing

This worksheet is great practise for identifying proper nouns and distinguishing them from a common noun. In this worksheet, you will practi...

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Resource Year: 2

Proper Noun Practice

This worksheet is great practise for identifying proper nouns and distinguishing them from a common noun. In this worksheet, you will practi...

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Resource Year: 2

Proper Nouns Worksheet

This worksheet is great practise for identifying proper nouns and distinguishing them from a common noun. In this worksheet, you will practi...

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Worksheet Year: 2

Proper Nouns

This worksheet is great practise for identifying proper nouns and distinguishing them from a common noun. In this worksheet, you will practi...

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Resource Year: 2

Correcting Commas

This worksheet will help develop your students’ understanding of list commas and when to use them. Students need to tick the sentence that u...

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Resource Year: 1 2

List Commas

In this worksheet, students are asked in insert list commas into sentences containing lists. This worksheet is a part of a larger unit where...

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Resource Year: 2

Linking Lists

This worksheet will demonstrate your students’ understanding of list commas and when to use them. Students will rewrite the included sentenc...

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Resource Year: 2

Proper Nouns or Common Nouns Game

This is a great game for identifying that a proper noun is either a person or place and requires a capital letter.

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Resource Year: 2

Comma Mania Game

The Comma Mania Game was designed for Year 2 students when learning to separate two or more elements in a list with a comma.

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Resource Year: 2

List Commas - Bang

An engaging and effective game, List Commas Bang is the perfect activity to help develop student understanding of list commas. Suitable for...

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Resource Year: F 1 2

Capital or No Capital - Proper and Common Noun Game

This game was developed to help students discriminate between common nouns and proper nouns, and to apply this knowledge when they create te...

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Resource Year: 2

Proper Nouns and List Commas - Quiz

This quiz will test your students’ knowledge on proper nouns and list commas. It contains 10 questions based on the content taught throughou...

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Resource Year: 2

List Commas Assessment

Use this task to assess student learning from the Year 2 Proper Nouns and List Commas unit. There are 5 questions for students to complete b...

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English Unit: Proper Nouns and List Commas

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