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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Sentence Structure Practice Interactive Activity (Lower Years)
Support early sentence construction with this interactive grammar PowerPoint.
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Year 6 Compound Sentence Writing Worksheets - Conjunctions & Semicolons
Print these Year 6 Compound Sentence Writing Worksheets to help your students practise writing compound sentences using conjunctions and semicolons.
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Daily Compound Sentence Worksheets
Use our Daily Compound Sentence worksheets to help your students identify, write, and edit compound sentences.
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Types of Verbs PowerPoint
Teach students about the different types of verbs with this set of 38 teaching slides with activities.
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Text Connectives Posters
Display this set of 7 text connectives posters to remind students about the types of sentence connectives and conjunctions.
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Parts of Speech Colouring Worksheet (Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs)
Use this colour by part of speech worksheet as a fun Autumn activity with your students.
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Types of Verbs Worksheet Pack
Explore types of verbs (doing, saying, thinking, feeling and relating) with your students with this set of 6 engaging, ready-to-use worksheets.
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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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FANBOYS Poster for Teaching Coordinating Conjunctions
Display this FANBOYS poster in your classroom to help students choose appropriate coordinating conjunctions.
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Sentence Structure Practice Interactive Activity (Upper Primary)
Use this engaging digital quiz in your upper years classroom when reviewing sentence structure and vocabulary.
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Words to Describe a Sloth Writing Activity
Write a descriptive paragraph about a sloth using the provided adjectives, nouns and articles.
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Noun and Verb Sort Worksheet Set
Use this set of noun and verb sorting worksheets for students to practise identifying nouns and verbs.
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Statement, Question, Command & Exclamation Sentences PowerPoint
Introduce statement, command, question, and exclamation sentences with an interactive teaching slide deck.
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Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives Flashcards
Create a variety of grammar activities with 60 printable noun, verb and adjective flashcards.
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Find the Adverbial Phrases Worksheet
Use this simple yet effective adverbs worksheet to assess students’ ability to identify adverb groups (adverbial phrases) in sentences.
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Complete the Sentences – Worksheets for Beginning Writers
A set of 10 worksheets for students to practise completing simple sentences.
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Sentence Structure Practice Interactive Activity (Middle Primary)
Use this interactive quiz to review key sentence structure concepts with your Year 3 and 4 students.
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Apostrophe Review Worksheet
Practise using apostrophes with contractions and possessive nouns in this double-sided worksheet.
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Printable Adjectives List for Kids
Print your students a list of adjectives to keep at hand when writing to help them use descriptive language.
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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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Sentence Cohesion Worksheet Pack
Use this sentence cohesion worksheet pack to teach your students about how to write clear sentences containing strongly connected ideas.
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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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Mixed Tense Worksheet Pack
Use these mixed tense worksheets to help your students identify past, present and future verb forms in a variety of contexts.
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Compound and Simple Sentences Task Cards
Use these compound and simple sentence task cards to help your students identify the difference between these types of sentences.
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Parts of Speech Interactive Activity (Lower Years)
Learn and consolidate four key parts of speech with this interactive PowerPoint.
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Compound Sentences Interactive Game
Use this camp-themed simple and compound sentences interactive game to help students practise identifying simple and compound sentences.
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Year 6 Grammar Practice Sheets - Punctuation Concepts
Print and use our Year 6 Grammar Practice Sheets to review a variety of punctuation concepts.
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Trace, Draw and Order Sentences Worksheets
Use this set of sentence cut-and-paste worksheets to help your students build simple sentences.
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Subordinating Conjunctions for Cause and Effect – Interactive Activity
Use this interactive digital activity to help students identify cause and effect subordinating conjunctions, and construct sentences using this part of speech.
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Adverb List Posters
Display this poster set (including a list of adverbs) in your classroom to encourage your students to explore and use adverbs in their writing!
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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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Very Important Verbs Worksheet
Explore verbs within the context of the well-known story of The Gingerbread Man.