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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Plural Nouns Chart — Printable Plural Rules Guide
Help students remember the different plural rules with a handy printable guide created for teachers to hand out.
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Grammar and Punctuation Assessment Tool - Year 5
A set of 5 grammar and punctuation assessment tools suited to Year 5 students.
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Common and Proper Nouns - Interactive Activity
Identify common and proper nouns by sorting words in their context.
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Colour by Parts of Speech - Nouns, Verbs & Adjectives - Octopus
Practise using parts of speech by colouring nouns, verbs and adjectives on the octopus.
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Read and Colour Worksheet – Common and Proper Nouns
A worksheet to practise identifying common and proper nouns.
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Five Wonders Theme Park: Fresh Start – Project
A project for students to use their literacy skills and creativity to rebrand Five Wonders Theme Park.
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Commonly Used Verbs Flashcards
Teach commonly used verbs with this set of printable flashcards.
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Everyday Grammar Sentence Structure Warm Ups - Lower Years Interactive PowerPoint
An engaging 44 slide interactive PowerPoint to use in the lower years classroom when learning about grammar and sentence structure.
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Sentence Saga Literacy Activity (Silly Sentences)
Words and punctuation marks are jumbled everywhere. It’s your task to combine them into sentences that make sense!
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My Drawing of the Gingerbread Man Worksheet
An engaging worksheet in the theme of the Gingerbread Man that explores the use of adjectives through drawing.
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Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives Board Game
Reinforce your parts of speech lesson with our grammar game for up to 4 players.
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Plural Rules Poster Pack
Make plural rules a breeze to understand with plural noun posters.
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Adverbial Phrases Roll and Write Activity
Along with your students, roll and write your way to hilarious silly sentences with adverb phrases with this printable worksheet!
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Adjectives and Adverbs Worksheets (Silly Stories)
Have fun with your students creating silly stories together while teaching and learning about parts of speech (adverbs and adjectives)!
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Trace, Draw and Order Sentences Worksheets
A set of sentence building worksheets.
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Everyday Grammar Parts of Speech Warm Ups - Lower Years Interactive PowerPoint
Review nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs with this 44-slide interactive PowerPoint lesson.
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Colour Adjectives Word Wall
A colourful word wall display to help support students colour adjective use.
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Paragraph Study Grammar Interactive PowerPoint
Interactive PowerPoint presentation allowing teachers and students to learn and revise grammar by highlighting paragraphs.
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Grammar Game - Name That Noun!
A fun game for students to play in small groups to consolidate their understanding of nouns.
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Adverbs Interactive Activity
Provide your students with engaging, interactive activities to help them improve their usage and identification of adverbs.
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Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives – Four Corners Game
Identify common and proper nouns, verbs and adjectives through this elimination-style types of words active game.
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Proper Nouns Crossword Puzzle - Worksheet
A crossword researching different proper nouns.
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Irregular Past Tense Verbs Worksheet
A worksheet that helps students identify irregular verbs.
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Statement, Question, Command, Exclamation – Poster
An educational poster that introduces the attributes of statements, questions, commands and exclamations.
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Saying Verbs Poster
A poster giving the definition and examples of saying verbs.
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Idioms Poster
A poster giving the definition for and examples of idioms.
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Parts of Speech Poster
A poster introducing students to nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and adverbial phrases.
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Subordinating Conjunctions for Contrast Interactive Activity
Assign this multiple choice subordinating conjunctions for contrast interactive activity for your students to correctly identify this type of conjunction in given sentences.
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Coordinating Conjunctions Craft and Writing Activity
Encourage your students to get hands-on with this highly visual representation of coordinating conjunctions and the role they play in linking two ideas in a sentence.
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Make It Plural - Interactive Activity
Help children grasp the tricky concept of pluralising nouns with an interactive Google Slides activity.
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Verb Charades Active Game
An active game that allows students to consolidate their understanding of action verbs.
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Common and Proper Nouns Sort - Cut and Paste Worksheet
A sorting worksheet to practise identifying common and proper nouns.