Grammar Teaching Resources
Browse printable grammar worksheets, games for kids and more writing activities for primary school. You'll even find free grammar downloads for your lesson plans to help students learn the different parts of speech, understand sentence structure and learn how to create grammatically correct sentences.
This comprehensive collection of teacher resources was created by teachers for Aussie teachers just like you. Explore printables and digital downloads that are aligned with the Australian English curriculum and easily editable to differentiate instruction for students.
Best of all, each resource has undergone a careful review by an expert member of our teacher team to ensure it's ready for your classroom, your lesson plan and your students!
Is this your first year teaching grammar to kids? Or are you just looking for fresh ideas to engage your students on this aspect of writing? Read on for a primer from our teacher team!
7 Things Teachers Need on Hand for Teaching Grammar
So you're teaching grammar this school year? Welcome to the wonderful world of words (and sentences ... and punctuation!).
You may be wondering what you'll need to prepare to ensure you have everything on hand to actually teach students the mechanics of writing, so our teacher team has put together a comprehensive list of classroom supplies that will make it easier!
- Anchor chart paper and markers
- Graphic organizers
- Writing rubrics
- Postcards and other cards for your writing centers
- Envelopes
- Clipboards
- Samples of writing
What Is Grammar in English? A Kid-Friendly Definition
Before you launch into the wonderful world of writing conventions with your class, it can be helpful to define the meaning of grammar in the context of your instruction.
Here's a definition our teacher team likes to use:
Grammar is a set of rules for writing that help us communicate effectively. It helps us to organise words, phrases and sentences in a way that makes sense to others. Without grammar, our sentences would be scrambled and hard to understand!
How to Teach Grammar — Tips From Our Teacher Team
If you're sitting down to map out your grammar lesson plans, and you're not quite sure where to begin, it can be helpful to take a look at how other teachers structure their lessons.
With that in mind, we asked a few teachers on our team to share their process for doing exactly that!
Start With Phrases and Clauses
One teacher on our team uses this order for her grammar lessons:
- Phrases and clauses
- Sentence types
- Punctuation rules
The reason?
Students need to have an understanding of the difference between a phrase and a clause to lay the foundation for creating organized sentences.
Likewise, it's important to know the difference between independent and dependent clauses before you can start teaching the different sentence types.
Finally, teaching sentence types gives students a solid foundation for introducing comma rules.
Start With FANBOYS
Another teacher on our team suggests teaching grammar in this order:
- Teach students about coordinating conjunctions and the FANBOYS acronym.
- Move on to phrases and clauses.
- Next, work on sentence structure.
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Nouns, Proper Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs and Conjunctions Posters
Enhance student understanding of the 8 parts of speech with these colourful, informative and easily-referenced grammar wall posters.
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Glorious Grammar Volume 1 - Worksheet Book
50 activities in one booklet which all revolve around learning grammar in the classroom.
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Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences Posters
Use these posters to show your students the attributes that make up simple, compound and complex sentences.
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Identifying Descriptive Language Worksheets - Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs and Adverbs
A set of 5 worksheets to help your students identify descriptive language in narrative texts.
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Compound, Complex and Simple Sentences PowerPoint
Introduce your students to compound, complex and simple sentences with an engaging types of sentences PowerPoint.
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Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences Worksheets
Use this set of five grammar worksheets to teach about the structures of simple, compound and complex sentences.
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Noun, Verb or Adjective? Colour By Code Worksheet
Use a colour by code Noun, Verb or Adjective worksheet to help students practise identifying parts of speech.
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Positional Language Hands-On Activity Mats
Engage students with positional language using these fun hands-on activity mats, where they follow instructions to place pictures within five different scenes.
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What Is a Noun Group? Teaching Slides
Answer the question “What is a noun group?” with this engaging slide deck designed to help primary students use descriptive language correctly in their writing.
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Cut and Paste Sentences Worksheets (F-1)
Practise making simple sentences with a set of printable Cut and Paste Sentence Worksheets.
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Colour by Parts of Speech - Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs
Consolidate your parts of speech lesson by colouring nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in these colour by code worksheets.
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Glorious Grammar (Early Years) Volume 1 – Worksheet Book
A workbook packed with 50 grammar activities for younger years.
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Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives Cut and Paste Worksheet
Have some fun identifying parts of speech by sorting school-themed nouns, verbs, and adjectives with a cut-and-paste worksheet.
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Differentiated Types of Sentences Posters
Display these posters highlighting the four types of sentences and teach your students the difference between them.
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Dressing Up A Sentence Activity
An activity to help encourage students to add more descriptive language into their sentence writing.
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Common Nouns and Proper Nouns - Sorting Task
A sorting task to help students learn the difference between common nouns and proper nouns.
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Noun Groups Worksheet Pack
Teach noun groups to your students with this set of 7 activity worksheets that help them use adjectives to build more descriptive and accurate sentences.
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Everyday Grammar Parts of Speech Warm Ups - Middle Years Interactive PowerPoint
Review nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs with this 44-slide interactive parts of speech PowerPoint lesson.
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Noun Sort Worksheet Pack
Use a noun sort worksheet to help your students practise identifying people, places, and things.
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Types of Sentences Posters
Display a set of types of sentences posters to help your students discover various types of sentences.
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Parts of Speech Colouring Activity - Back to School
Use this Parts of Speech Colouring Activity as a back to school review activity with your students.
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Complex Sentences Worksheet Pack
Help your students practise writing complex sentences with our printable Complex Sentences Worksheet Pack for Year 5.
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Identifying Descriptive and Figurative Language Worksheets
Help your students identify descriptive and figurative language in narrative texts with this set of colour-coding worksheets.
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Everyday Grammar Sentence Structure Warm Ups - Upper Years Interactive PowerPoint
An engaging 44 slide interactive PowerPoint to use in the upper years classroom when learning about grammar and sentence structure.
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Simple and Compound Sentence Structure Lesson Slides
Use our Simple and Compound Sentence Structure PowerPoint to teach your students about parts of sentences, subjects, predicates, and types of sentences!
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Simple Sentence Posters
Help students understand what makes a simple sentence with this clear and engaging Simple Sentence Poster Pack.
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Alice in Wonderland Escape Room – Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences
Help Alice escape Sentence Land in this Alice in Wonderland Escape Room Game covering simple, compound and complex sentences.
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Everyday Grammar Parts of Speech Warm Ups - Upper Years Interactive PowerPoint
Learn and consolidate noun groups, adjectival phrases, adverbial phrases and more with this 44-slide interactive PowerPoint.
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Identifying Informative Language Worksheets
Explore the types of language found in informative writing using this set of three information reports on a variety of age-appropriate topics.
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Introduction to Writing Simple Sentences PowerPoint
Teach students how to write simple sentences with these Writing Simple Sentences Teaching Slides.
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Vivid Verbs Poster Pack
Teach your students to omit boring, overused verbs from their writing with a classroom set of vivid verb posters.
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Simple and Compound - Roll a Sentence Dice Game
Play a ‘Roll-a-Sentence’ dice game to help your students practise writing simple and compound sentences.