Deidre's students sorting nouns: abstract and concrete

Variants of this noun morphology lesson are getting lots of action. As a follow up to this discussion of abstract and concrete nouns, Deidre's students explored this distinct in more depth. Here is an image of students sorting nouns into abstract and concrete.

And another, where they've made three categories, clearly abstract, clearly concrete, and not sure.

They then put them on the board. Where there was complete consensus, those words went in the "clearly" columns. (Some of these we would want to come back to and discuss some more - money, for example.)

From there, we turned to the noun suffixes discussed in this lesson and in its comments.