Literacy Lesson: Abstract and Concrete Nouns

This series provides individual lessons, for 11-14 year old students, at approximately 45 minutes per session. The lessons aim to move beyond students' simply identifying words, phrases and clauses, but rather allowing them to discover and discuss the effects that a writer's grammatical choices have in a text. The lessons are simple and straight forward, designed to provoke thought and understanding of the English language.

A literacy lesson designed for students to investigate and experiment with the different effects of abstract and concrete nouns through simple poetry. Students compare two pieces of work, and work to create their own poem using abstract nouns.