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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Christmas Singular and Plural Noun Worksheets
Review plural noun rules and add some holiday fun to your English lessons with a set of printable plural and singular noun worksheets.
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Christmas Interactive: Singular and Plural Nouns
Practice using singular and plural nouns with a fun Christmas-themed interactive activity.
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Holiday Adjective Worksheet Pack
Have some festive fun using printable Christmas adjective worksheets to practise describing nouns.
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Singular or Plural? Christmas Noun Sort
Help your students determine if words are singular or plural with a fun Christmas-themed noun sorting centre.
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Year 3 and Year 4 English Worksheets - Christmas Printables
Add some Christmas spirit to your December grammar lessons with a printable pack of Christmas-themed Year 3 and Year 4 English worksheets.
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Interesting Events Adverb Groups Worksheets
Use this set of differentiated grammar worksheets to help students incorporate adverb groups or phrases into their writing.
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Relative Adverbs Worksheet Pack
Use this pack of five worksheets to help your students practise the correct use of relative adverbs in text.
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Halloween Finish the Drawing - Preposition Worksheets
Finish the drawing to create a fun Halloween scene with a set of preposition worksheets.
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Halloween Contractions Activity - SCOOT! Card Game
Identify contractions and the words they replace with a printable Halloween Contractions Activity for Year 2.
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Halloween Printables - Spooky Halloween Adjectives Worksheets
Bewitch your students into using descriptive adjectives with printable Halloween adjectives worksheets for Year 1 and Year 2 students.
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My Sweet Grandparents - Craft Activity
Show off your students’ ‘sweet’ grandparents with an adjective ice cream cone craft.
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Halloween Adjectives Word Search - Lower Years
Bring in the Halloween spirit this year, starting with a printable Halloween word search filled with spooky adjectives!
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Who Lives in a Haunted House? Finish the Drawing Activity
Draw and write about all the kooky nouns in a haunted house with a printable Halloween words worksheet for Year 2.
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Autumn Parts of Speech Sort
Review three parts of speech by sorting nouns, verbs, and adjectives with a parts of speech sorting activity.
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Halloween Parts of Speech - Cut and Paste Worksheet
Have a bit of spooky fun sorting Halloween nouns, verbs, and adjectives with a cut and paste worksheet.
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Christmas Printables - Parts of Speech Cut and Paste Activities
Bring a bit of Christmas fun into your parts of speech lessons with printable Christmas worksheets
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Grammar Grid Colour by Code - Easter Parts of Speech Worksheet
Follow the colour-coded parts of speech guide to fill in the word grid and reveal a mystery image.
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Easter Worksheets - Grammar Practise
Practise skills learnt in literacy with this Easter-themed grammar activity pack.
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Valentine's Day Grammar Worksheets
Review and practise a wide range of grammar skills with a pack of printable Valentine’s Day Grammar Worksheets.
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I Know 100 Nouns! 100th Day Activity Book
Blend the 100th Day of School with grammar practise by making a book that contains 100 nouns!
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Christmas Common and Proper - Year 2 English Task Cards
Identify common noun and proper noun usage in sentences with this set of printable Christmas-themed Task Cards!
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Christmas Worksheet - Singular and Plural Nouns
Identify singular and plural nouns with this Christmas worksheet.
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Christmas Task Cards - Past, Present and Future Tense Practise
Practice identifying past, present, and future tense verbs with a set of Christmas Verb Tense Task Cards!
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Christmas Possessive Nouns Worksheet
Practice identifying possessive nouns with this Christmas-themed worksheet.
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Pumpkin-Themed Parts of Speech Worksheets
Review key parts of speech by sorting nouns, verbs and adjectives with these four pumpkin-themed worksheets.
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Is/Are Subject Verb Agreement Task Cards
Practice using 'is' and 'are' correctly using a set of subject-verb agreement task cards.
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Google Slides Interactive - Features of Print
Use a Google Slides interactive activity to aid beginning readers in recognising print features and concepts of print.
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Quick Thinker Game – Worksheet
An alphabet racing game to help prompt vocabulary knowledge.
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Irregular Verbs Relay
An active relay race game in which students spell out irregular verbs.
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The Three Little Pigs and Their Article Mess - Worksheet
A reading exercise of the classic story of The Three Little Pigs with incorrect articles students need to fix.
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Net Trap Game: Articles - Worksheet
A risky elimination game to help students engage with their grammar skills with articles.
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Plotting Prepositions Net Game - Worksheet
A fun guessing risk game that gives students the opportunity to engage with prepositions.