Grade 3 Fall — Personal Narrative, Complex Sentences with Subordinate Clauses, and Morphology with Affixes and Roots
English · GR G3 eng.g3.f.gr.abstract_nouns

Identify and use abstract nouns (L.3.1.c)

Distinguish abstract nouns (courage, kindness, friendship, freedom, curiosity, fear, hope, love, honesty, respect) from concrete nouns; use abstract nouns in narrative writing to name a character's motivation or quality.

Mastery threshold
90%
Min instances
10
Typical minutes
30
Spaced intervals (days)
1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60
Prereqs
Successors
  • eng.g4.f.gr.abstract_nouns_extended
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Common misconceptions
  • Calls every -ness or -ship word abstract automatically (often correct but the test should be FEEL/THINK vs. TOUCH, not the suffix).
  • Classifies 'idea' or 'dream' as concrete because they can be 'in your head' (test: can you touch one?).

Exercise pool (2)

Diff Stem Type
1 Sort these 20 nouns into CONCRETE or ABSTRACT columns: apple, courage, jacket, kindness, library, fear, dough, freedom, hand, curiosity,... concrete abstract sort
3 Pick ONE abstract noun (courage / kindness / friendship / freedom / curiosity / fear / hope / love / honesty / respect / determination)... abstract noun as motivation