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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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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Strong Verbs Teaching Slides
Discover how to use strong verbs in sentences with this set of teaching slides.
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Coordinating Conjunction Word Mat
Boost your students’ writing skills by giving them access to this coordinating conjunctions word mat during literacy lessons.
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Subordinating Conjunctions Worksheet
Use this worksheet to enable students to practise identifying and constructing sentences using subordinating conjunctions.
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Write Your Own Adverbial Phrases Worksheet
Use this set of differentiated adverbs worksheets to assess students’ ability to add adverb groups into simple sentences.
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Adverbial Phrases Category Sorting Game
Use this fun adverbs game in your literacy lesson or small groups to help students grasp the concept of adverb groups!
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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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Read and Colour Worksheet – Common and Proper Nouns
A worksheet to practise identifying common and proper nouns.
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Noun and Verb Sort – Worksheet
A simple noun and verb sorting worksheet.
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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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Cut and Paste Shades of Meaning Verb Sort
Engage your students in exploring subtle differences between verbs with this set of two cut and paste worksheets.
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Apostrophe Review Worksheet
Practise using apostrophes with contractions and possessive nouns in this double-sided 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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Types of Adverbs Teaching Slides
Explore five types of adverbs in this action-packed adverb adventure teaching slide deck! This resource covers adverbs of time, place, manner, frequency and degree.
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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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Vocabulary Building Template – Verbs
Expand verb vocabulary with this open-ended task.
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Apostrophe of Possession Worksheet
A 2 page worksheet to help students consolidate their understanding of the apostrophe of possession.
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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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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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Character Adjective Concertina Template – The Gingerbread Man
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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Plural Rules Poster Pack
Make plural rules a breeze to understand with plural noun posters.
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Prepositions of Place Worksheet Pack
Enhance students’ understanding of spatial language with this prepositions of place worksheet pack featuring four different household scenes.
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Preposition Phrases Practice Interactive Activity
Enhance your grammar lessons with a digital preposition phrases activity that engages students through interactive drag-and-drop, sorting and typing tasks.
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Cut and Paste Matching Verb Tense Worksheet
Practise identifying past, present and future tense in verbs using this set of cut and paste worksheets.
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Verb Tenses Quiz Worksheet
Assess your students' knowledge of verb tenses with this 5-question quiz.
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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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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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Parts of Speech Word Search (Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs and Adverbs) – Worksheet
A word search where students find and categorise nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs.
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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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Exploring Verb Tenses - Interactive Activity
Provide your students with a digital learning activity to practise using past, present, and future tense verbs.
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Adjectives Interactive Activity
Provide your students with engaging, interactive activities to help them improve their usage of descriptive adjectives.
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Past, Present and Future Tense Verbs — Interactive Activity for Year 3
Explore past, present and future tense verbs in the classroom with this Google Slides Interactive activity.
- 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