Parts of Speech Teaching Resources
Teach students the parts of speech this school year with printable worksheets, descriptive language activities, sorting games and more primary school teaching resources designed to help extend and improve your students' understanding of nouns, verbs, adjectives and more.
This extensive collection of teaching resources has been created by teachers for teachers like you. Aligned to the Australian curriculum, the collection includes editable worksheets and teaching presentations and more to save primary teachers time on lesson planning.
Created by expert teachers, each resource in this English collection has been carefully reviewed and curated by our team. That means it's ready to use in the classroom! You'll even find editable resources, plus differentiated options.
New to teaching parts of speech, or just looking for fresh ways to engage your students? Read on for a primer from our teaching team!
What Is a Part of Speech? Kid-Friendly Definition
Teaching parts of speech? Here's a way to explain what they mean to your students in a kid-friendly manner.
A part of speech is a word we use to describe certain types of words based on how they function in sentences. When we can categorise words according to their part of speech, we know which grammatical rules to use with them.
How Many Parts of Speech Are There?
There are eight different parts of speech within the English language. These include:
- Noun — A word that represents a person, place or thing
- Pronoun —A word that is used in place of a noun such as 'he' or 'I'
- Adjective — A word that describes a noun or pronoun
- Verb — A word that expresses action or a state of being
- Adverb —A word that describes a verb, adjective or other adverb
- Preposition — A word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and other words in a sentence
- Conjunction —A word that connects words, phrases, or clauses in a sentence, such as 'and' or 'but'
- Interjection — A word or phrase that expresses strong emotion or surprise, such as 'Wow'
Fun Activities for Teaching Parts of Speech
This collection is full of fun activities designed to engage students with the various parts of speech, and our teacher team has a few more favourites to inspire your grammar lessons!
- Funny Sentence Game — Introduce the five main parts of speech — noun, verb, pronoun, adjective and adverb — and have students fill out a mind map about each, including examples. Next, write a few sentences on the whiteboard that are missing a few words with lines drawn where the word is missing. As a whole class task, work out which part of speech should go in each blank space, marking down that part of speech below the line. Once they've all been labelled, have students take it in pairs, creating funny sentences by filling in words that fit the parts of speech.
- Parts of Speech Find It Game — Split students into small groups with an even amount of students, and give each group a copy of the local newspaper and a set of different coloured pencils. Assign each part of speech a colour. Each group should assign one colour/part of speech to one member. Set a timer, and challenge students to find and circle as many of their part of speech as they can during the time allowed. The group that finds the most words that are correctly labelled wins!
- Parts of Speech Egg Hunt — Collect plastic Easter eggs (many teachers have them hiding in a closet, so ask around if you don't have your own!). Create a colour code for parts of speech similar to the one in activity 2. Hide sentences inside the eggs, then hide the eggs around the classroom and set a timer. Students then have to find one egg at a time, identify a certain part of speech based on the egg colour code, and write down the answer before they can move on to find another egg. The student who wins is the one who finds the most eggs (and has correctly written down the most correct words) by the time your timer goes off.
- Parts of Speech Board Games — Challenge students to create their own board games based on these important words, demonstrating their understanding of proper use.
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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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Text Connectives Posters for Upper Primary Students
Display this set of 8 grammar posters to remind students the types and examples of sentence connectives and conjunctions.
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Text Connectives Posters for Lower Primary Students
Display this set of 8 grammar posters to teach students about text connectives and conjunctions.
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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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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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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 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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Strong Verbs Word Wall
Print a set of strong verbs word wall cards to help your students boost their writing skills!
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Wheely Wonderful Words – Overused Adjectives
Banish overused adjectives with a handy adjective-synonym word wheel!
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Grammar and Punctuation Assessment Tool – Year 4
A set of 5 grammar and punctuation assessment tools suited to Year 4 students.
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Colour by Parts of Speech - Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Prepositions - Owl
Consolidate parts of speech by colouring nouns, verbs, adjectives and prepositions on the owl.
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Everyday Grammar Parts of Speech Warm Ups - Upper Years Interactive PowerPoint
Learn and consolidate noun groups, adjectival phrases, adverbial phrases and more with this 44-slide interactive PowerPoint.
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Common Nouns and Proper Nouns - Sorting Task
A sorting task to help students learn the difference between common nouns and proper nouns.
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What Is a Noun Group? Teaching Slides
Answer the question “What is a noun group?” with this engaging slide deck designed to help primary students use descriptive language correctly 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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Sort It Out! Common and Proper Nouns Game
Use common and proper nouns games to help your students practise identifying examples of different types of nouns.
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Worksheet for Prepositional Phrases – The Time of the Dinosaurs
Download this worksheet for prepositional phrases that helps young learners identify and understand prepositional phrases in context.
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Adverb Worksheets PDF
Use this printable Adverb Worksheets PDF Resource to help your little learners practise identifying adverbs.
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Position Words Worksheets – Where Is the Dinosaur?
Enhance students' understanding of position words with this engaging set of differentiated dinosaur-themed worksheets, designed to support learners at different levels.
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Prepositional Phrase Practice Test
Assess students’ understanding with this two-page prepositional phrase practice test featuring multiple-choice, true-or-false and finish-the-sentence questions.
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Prepositional Phrase Worksheet Pack
Enhance your grammar lessons with this prepositional phrase worksheet pack, designed to help Year 4 students master prepositions and prepositional phrases.
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Position Word Pictures Matching Game
Download this Position Words Pictures Matching Game to help students master position words through visual, real-life examples.
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Preposition Flashcards
Engage young learners with preposition flashcards that provide clear and engaging visual representations of common prepositions of place.
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Pronouns Teaching Slides
Use this pronouns PowerPoint presentation to teach your students about some of the most common types of pronouns.
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Personal Pronouns Worksheet Pack
Use these personal pronouns worksheets to get your students identifying and using these essential parts of speech.
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Reflexive Pronoun Worksheet
Use this reflexive pronouns worksheet to teach your students about reflexive pronouns and how they are used in sentences.
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Find the Verb Task Cards
Help students recognise verbs in sentences with this set of Find the Verb task cards and recording sheet.
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Verbs in Pictures Activity
Explore verbs in action using these scenes at the playground and beach.
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Present and Past Tense Regular Verbs Matchup Cards
Learn about simple present tense and simple past tense of regular verbs with this match up activity.
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A or An? Poster
Use this articles poster to teach your students which article to use and when!
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Past Tense, Present Tense and Future Tense Posters
Help your students understand verb tense with this set of past, present and future tense poster examples.
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A or An? - Worksheets
Teach when to use A or An as an article with a printable pack of 'A or An' Worksheets.
- Parts of Speech Worksheets
- Parts of Speech Games
- Parts of Speech Posters
- Parts of Speech Teaching Presentations
- Parts of Speech Templates
- Parts of Speech for Foundation Year
- Parts of Speech for Year 1
- Parts of Speech for Year 2
- Parts of Speech for Year 3
- Parts of Speech for Year 4
- Parts of Speech for Year 5
- Parts of Speech for Year 6