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...
Curated OER
Parts of Speech
Nouns, verbs, pronouns...they're all covered here! This presentation gives a detailed look at each part of speech, but know that you cannott skip slides or start at any slide except for the first. Create a guide to keep your class...
Texas Education Agency (TEA)
Imagery, Metaphor, and Simile (English II Reading)
The sixth interactive in this series introduces learners to the power of figurative language. After studying examples of similes and metaphors, readers examine how such comparisons help them see through a writer's eyes. Interactive...
Curated OER
Picture Perfect Parts of Speech
Students demonstrate the eight parts of speech with personal photographs. In this parts of speech instructional activity, students take photographs and label them with the appropriate concrete example of each part of speech.
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Memory of a Kiss
Third graders read, discuss, and memorize the poem "Jenny Kissed Me." as an example of lyrical poetry. They write a letter to Jenny reliving the memory of her kiss from an elderly person's point of view. They illustrate their poems.
Curated OER
Grammar-Mechanics Session #1/Parts of Speech
As part of a grammar lesson, use these sentences to identify parts of speech. There are no directions, but parts of speech are available. The resource contains ten sentences in all.
Curated OER
Lawton: A Child of the Prairie
Students complete word study activities, read a story and write a descriptive paragraph about the setting of Goo Goo Avenue in Lawton 1901.
Curated OER
Editing
Are your writers ready to edit their papers? Present them with these editing tips including reading papers out loud, varying sentence openings and lengths, and using action verbs. While the tips are worthwhile, consider supplementing the...
Curated OER
Grammar Puzzles
Students explore the parts of a sentence through analysis, design, and drawing in this nine lessons unit on Grammar. The diagramming of sentences comprises the main thrust of this unit through the utilization of higher cognitive skill...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Concrete and Abstract Nouns
Learn to distinguish between abstract and concrete nouns!
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Abstract Nouns
This page explains that an abstract noun is not identifiable by any of the five senses and provides examples.
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.
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.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Abstract Noun
Notes and examples of abstract and concrete nouns.
Tom Richey
Linked In: Abstract Noun Powerpoint Game
A PowerPoint presentation defining concrete and abstract nouns and includes a sit down/stand up game.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Special Nouns
In this learning module, students review abstract nouns referring to qualities, ideas, and emotions.
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.
University of Manchester
Children's University of Manchester: What Are Nouns?
In these interactive lessons you can learn all about different types of nouns including common, proper, concrete, abstract, count, non-count, and collective. Then play a noun game and take a quiz to show what you have learned.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Concrete Nouns
This Grammarly Handbook resource provides a definition for concrete nouns. Examples of concrete nouns in the context of sentences are provided.
Other
Grammaropolis: The Nouns
This is a lesson in nouns including defining nouns, common, proper, concrete, abstract, compound, and collective nouns. It defines each type, shows its use in a sentence, and provides examples.
Quia
Quia: Nouns Away
Students look at twenty-four nouns and determine if each is concrete or abstract.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Nouns
This page focuses on nouns including definitions, types of nouns (person, place, thing/idea), common vs proper nouns, types of common nouns (concrete, abstract, collective), nouns as subjects, nouns as objects, nouns as subjective and...
TES Global
Blendspace: Noun Types Review
A six-part learning module with links images, websites, slides, and a video on different types of nouns including common, proper, collective, verbal, compound, abstract, concrete, countable, and uncountable.