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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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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Comical Chronicle Worksheets - Year 6
A set of 9 ad-lib style stories for students to complete.
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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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Colour by Parts of Speech Worksheet – Toucan
Consolidate your parts of speech lesson by colouring nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, prepositions and adverbs on the toucan.
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Everyday Grammar Parts of Speech Warm Ups - Middle Years Interactive PowerPoint
Review nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs with this 44-slide interactive parts of speech PowerPoint lesson.
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Verb Groups Worksheet
Explore verb groups and the words that surround verbs in sentences with this set of verb group worksheets.
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Preposition Activity Sheet Pack – Read and Draw
Download this preposition activity sheet pack, where students read a series of instructions to draw scenes by identifying prepositions.
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Very Important Verbs Worksheet
Explore verbs within the context of the well-known story of The Gingerbread Man.
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Dinosaur Adjectives Worksheet
A set of 6 dinosaur themed adjective teaching resource worksheets.
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Grammar Worksheet Pack – Lower Primary
A 13 page worksheet pack to consolidate the learning of different grammar concepts in the early years.
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Parts of Speech Card Game – Lower Years Classroom Game
A card game for nouns, verbs and adjectives.
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Plural Rules Poster Pack
Make plural rules a breeze to understand with plural noun posters.
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Verb Grammar Card Game – Flip It!
A fun game for students to play in small groups to consolidate their understanding of verbs.
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Adverb Grammar Card Game – Flip It!
A fun game for students to play in small groups to consolidate their understanding of adverbs.
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Male, Female, Baby, and Group Animal Names- Posters
5 pages of posters with animal names.
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Order of Adjectives Digital Quiz
Engage your students with this order of adjectives digital quiz that helps them practise arranging adjectives in a fun and engaging way.
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Noun Groups Worksheet Pack
Teach noun groups to your students with this set of 7 activity worksheets that help them use adjectives to build more descriptive and accurate sentences.
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Noun Sort Worksheet Pack
Use a noun sort worksheet to help your students practise identifying people, places, and things.
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Subject Verb Agreement Collective Nouns Worksheet Pack
Download this subject-verb agreement collective nouns worksheet pack to help your students master tricky singular and plural verb choices when using collective nouns.
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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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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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Position Words – Interactive Peg Cards
Teach position words with these interactive digital clip cards, designed to help young learners master prepositions.
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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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Preposition Worksheets for Year 1
Use these preposition worksheets to get your students identifying and using these essential parts of speech.
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Using Prepositions Worksheet Pack
Download this prepositions worksheet set, featuring five interactive cut-and-paste activities designed to reinforce understanding of positional language.
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Prepositions Questions Digital Quiz
Get your students answering prepositions questions with this interactive digital quiz perfect for lesson warm-ups or wrap-ups.
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Preposition Poster Pack
Enhance your classroom with this preposition poster pack featuring three visually appealing posters explaining prepositions of place, time and direction.
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Reflexive Pronouns Worksheet Pack
Use this reflexive pronouns worksheet pack to get your students identifying and using these essential parts of speech.
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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.
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