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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Past, Present and Future Verb Tenses Game
Get your students thinking in the past, present and future with this board game that pairs fun with verb tense practice.
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Subordinating Conjunctions for Conditions – Interactive Activity
Use this interactive digital activity to help students identify conditional subordinating conjunctions, and construct sentences using this part of speech.
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Coordinating Conjunctions Task Cards
Use this set of 24 task cards to reinforce students' understanding of coordinating conjunctions and building compound sentences.
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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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Complete and Incomplete Sentence Task Cards
These task cards are best used as independent practice or formative assessment assignments during sentence structure lessons.
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Vocabulary Building Template – Verbs
Expand verb vocabulary with this open-ended task.
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The Wacky Professor's Treasure - Whole Class Game
A whole class game that allows students to complete grammar activities, while working together to solve a riddle!
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Writing Compound Sentences with Conjunctions Worksheet
Assign this worksheet to allow students to practise using coordinating conjunctions to create compound sentences.
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Colour by Parts of Speech Worksheet – Chameleon
Practise your parts of speech lesson by colouring nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions and pronouns on the chameleon.
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Successful Sentences – Sentence Construction Cards
Word cards for constructing complex sentences.
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Everyday Grammar Sentence Structure Warm Ups - Middle Years Interactive PowerPoint
An engaging 44 slide interactive PowerPoint to use in the middle years classroom when learning about grammar and sentence structure.
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Adverbs Worksheet
A 2 page worksheet that explores the use of adverbs.
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"Simon Says" Instruction Cards
A set of 24 instruction cards to use when playing "Simon Says".
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Parts of Speech Review – Interactive PowerPoint
Interactive PowerPoint presentation allowing teachers and students to learn and revise grammar by highlighting paragraphs.
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Character Adjective Concertina Template – Blank
Learn how adjectives can be used to describe a character's appearance and personality with a hands-on craft activity aligned to the English curriculum.
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Independent Clauses and Dependent Clauses Matching Game
Download this independent clause and dependent clause matching game to help your students comprehend and build complex sentences.
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Dependent Clauses Digital Quiz
Explore dependent clauses with this interactive digital quiz that helps students identify clauses that show time, purpose, concession, condition and reason.
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Dependent Clause Worksheets
Explore how a dependent clause can show purpose, time, reason, concession and condition with this engaging set of worksheets for Year 5 students.
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Comparative Connectives Worksheet Pack
Teach comparative connectives with this set of 9 progressive worksheets designed to help your students show similarity and difference in their writing.
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Expanded Noun Groups Sorting Activity
Teach expanded noun groups with this hands-on sorting activity where students decide whether the order of adjectives in each noun group is correct or incorrect.
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Fix the Sentences Worksheets
Use these Fix the Sentences Worksheets to help your students become confident writers.
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Cohesive Devices List
Download this cohesive devices list for your students to refer to when writing a variety of text types.
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Sentence or Fragment? Worksheet Pack
Use a Sentence or Fragment worksheet to help your students build their sentence writing skills.
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Adjective Prepositional Phrase Worksheets
Help students master the adjective prepositional phrase with this engaging set of five worksheets designed to reinforce how these phrases add descriptive detail to nouns.
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Prepositional Phrase Poster
Enhance your grammar lessons with this prepositional phrase poster that helps students identify and understand adverbial and adjectival prepositional phrases.
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Adverb Prepositional Phrase Worksheets
Help students master the adverb prepositional phrase with this set of six worksheets designed to build confidence in using prepositional phrases as adverbs.
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Preposition Phrases Task Cards
Download this set of 20 preposition phrase task cards, designed to help students identify and use prepositional phrases.
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Preposition PowerPoint
Use this preposition PowerPoint to help your students understand and use prepositions of place, time and direction with confidence.
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Preposition Game – Roll and Cover
Use this preposition game as a fun and collaborative way of learning about these important parts of speech.
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Simple Sentence Activity Spinner Template
Engage young writers with this fun and interactive Simple Sentence Activity - Spinner Template.
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SPLAT! Types of Sentences Card Game (Year 1-2)
Play SPLAT!, a types of sentences game to help your students learn to identify statement, command, question, and exclamation sentences
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Relative Pronouns Worksheet Pack
Use this relative pronouns worksheet pack to get your students identifying and using these essential parts of speech.