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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Quick Thinker Game – Worksheet
An alphabet racing game to help prompt vocabulary knowledge.
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Comical Chronicle Worksheets – Year 5
A set of 10 ad-lib style stories for students to complete.
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Irregular Verbs Relay
An active relay race game in which students spell out irregular verbs.
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How to Make Pancakes: Article Edition - Worksheet
A procedure text for students to read about how to make pancakes with the articles removed for students to fill in.
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Apostrophes of Possession Card Game
An interactive card game for students to play when consolidating their understanding of apostrophes of possession.
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Grammar Toss Active Game
An active game that allows students to test and build their knowledge of words and parts of speech.
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Past Tense Folding Cards
A set of 21 past tense folding cards.
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Halloween A to Z - Vocabulary Activity
Improve vocabulary and knowledge of nouns, verbs, and adjectives with a printable Halloween worksheet.
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Active Voice and Passive Voice Poster
A beautifully illustrated poster explaining active voice and passive voice.
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Passive Voice Poster
A beautifully illustrated poster explaining passive voice.
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Active Voice Poster
A beautifully illustrated poster explaining active voice.
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Active Voice and Passive Voice PowerPoint
A 13 slide editable PowerPoint template to use when teaching your students about active voice and passive voice.
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Active Voice and Passive Voice Worksheet
A worksheet for students to use when learning about active voice and passive voice.
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Marine Animals Adjectives Worksheet
A set of 12 marine animal themed adjective teaching resource worksheets.
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Food Pyramid Adjectives Worksheet
A set of 32 food pyramid themed adjective teaching resource worksheets.
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Active Voice and Passive Voice
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and use active voice and passive voice in sentences.
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50 Activities for Teaching Grammar
Teaching grammar has never been easier. A reveal of the mind-blowing result of our number one teaching resource request!
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10 Tips for Teaching the Foundations of Sentence Structure
Increase the fun factor during your language lessons with these top tips for securing student understanding of sentence structure!
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Fun Ways to Learn with LEGO in the Classroom
From learning sentence structure to coding activities, using Lego for learning in the classroom is a no brainer.
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Capital Letter Activities for Kids (NEW Resource!)
Are you looking for quick, easy and fun capital letter activities? Make teaching punctuation simple and check out this amazingly cute resource.
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The Ultimate Parts of Speech Flip Book
Don't miss this parts of speech resource that will make teaching and learning grammar easy.
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26 Fun Punctuation Resources and Activities
Are you looking for some fun and engaging punctuation activities and resources for the classroom?