Abstract:
This study discusses the critical application of practical literacy (CLP) in the
effectiveness of learning nouns aimed at facilitating the teaching of English,
especially in learning nouns. The sample in this study was 11 stories contained in
a book called Rain in the Kingdom of Laterre. From the results of this study note
that using the practice of critical literacy is one way that can be done to obtain
effectiveness in learning parts of word elements, especially nouns. The design of
this study is related to qualitative descriptive techniques. The findings show that
the dominant type of nouns used in Rain in laterre kingdoms is nouns as sentence
subjects with a percentage of 62.55% so it is known that in this study nouns are
used as subjects because the book is intended for children so the word selection
used simply