Abstract and concrete nouns worksheets
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Concrete nouns can be seen, heard, or touched: bridge, thunder, pretzel. Abstract nouns are ideas and feelings: courage, luck, patience. The five-senses test tells them apart.
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3rd grade Core grade
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Third graders sort nouns by the five-senses test: perceivable (bridge, whistle, icicle) versus idea-and-feeling (hope, honesty, luck), meeting L.3.1.c head-on.
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4th grade
Fourth graders sort quickly, defend the tricky ones (thunder, shadow, friendship?), and start noticing abstract nouns doing heavy work in what they read.
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5th grade
Fifth graders use the distinction as a writing tool: concrete nouns to show, abstract nouns to name what was shown.
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