Core Knowledge Foundation
Third Grade Skills Unit 2: Rattenborough’s Guide to Animals
An animal-themed unit focuses on third-grade skills. Scholars practice spelling patterns, prefixes, suffixes, and grammar concepts—nouns, verbs, adjectives, subjects, predicates, and sentences. Assessments gauge proficiency.
BW Walch
Daily Warm-Ups: Grammar and Usage
If grammar practice is anywhere in your curriculum, you must check out an extensive collection of warm-up activities for language arts! Each page focuses on a different concept, from parts of speech to verbals, and provides review...
Texas Education Agency (TEA)
Imagery (English III Reading)
Picture this! The first interactive in a set of 13 shows learners how writers use imagery and sensory details to create mental pictures in readers' minds.
K12 Reader
Find the Abstract Nouns
A worksheet challenges scholars to read 20 words then identify and circle the 11 abstract nouns.
Deer Valley Unified School District
Close Reading: Analyzing Mood and Tone
The AP Literature and Composition exam is all about close reading. Test takers are presented with a passage and asked to analyze how an author uses literary devices to create a desired effect. Prepare your students for the exam with a...
Prestwick House
Introducing Symbols–The Beach
Looking for a way to introduce class members to the concept of symbolism and multiple levels of meaning? Readers examine two different passages about the beach and consider how the writers use concrete objects, and places to represent...
Curated OER
Amos and Boris: Text Study
Twenty insightful questions follow a read aloud of the story, Amos and Boris by William Steig. Scholars then show what they know through completion of a cause and effect chart, reading fluency assessment, and a written explanatory or...
Curated OER
Abstract Nouns and Concrete Nouns
Practice identifying concrete and abstract nouns with a learning exercise that offers three different ways to show what enthusiastic grammarians know. First, pupils read a passage and identify the nouns; second, they think up three more...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Kinds of Nouns
With so many different kinds of nouns, it can be hard for young learners to keep them all straight. Help clarify this important part of speech for your class with this series of worksheets which clearly addresses the difference...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Abstract Nouns
The composition of a noun is more than just a person, place or thing. Use this resource to study examples of nouns and their many uses.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Nouns
A complete tutorial on identifying and using nouns that starts with identifying the nouns in "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music. Includes links to other noun grammar pages.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Concrete Noun
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a concrete noun in the context of a sentence.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: What's Been Lost?
In this lesson, The Black-Eyed Peas song entitled "Where is the Love?" will be dissected by students. Then students will build upon the song's them and compare it with the picture book by Denise Fleming, Where Once There Was A Wood....
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Abstract Nouns
This page explains that an abstract noun is not identifiable by any of the five senses and provides examples.
Scholastic
Scholastic: When Grammar Meets Art
Grammar lessons that involve kinesthetic games and art projects. Here is a lesson plan for teaching types of nouns through a partner exploration and a whole class art project. Let me show you just how fun grammar can be!
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Special Nouns
In this learning module, students review abstract nouns referring to qualities, ideas, and emotions.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Concrete and Abstract Nouns
Learn to distinguish between abstract and concrete nouns!
TES Global
Blendspace: 2015, Term 1, Week 4 English Types of Nouns
A six-part learning module on nouns including videos, images, and information on nouns and noun phrases.
TES Global
Blendspace: Nouns
An eight-part learning module with images, charts, links, exercises, and videos filled with explanations and examples of different types of nouns.
TES Global
Blendspace: Non Count Nouns
A four-part learning module with links to videos, a website, and a chart to use while learning about non-count nouns.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Concrete and Abstract Nouns
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will learn to identify the differences between concrete and abstract nouns. There is an Activote review at the end of the lesson.