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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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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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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Apostrophes of Possession – Interactive Peg Cards
Provide digital possessive noun practice activities for your learners with a Google Slides interactive activity.
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Adverbs Activity : Grammar Charades
Have some fun and build grammar skills with an adverb charades activity.
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Parts of Speech Practice Interactive Activity (Upper Primary)
Learn and consolidate noun groups, adjectival phrases, adverbial phrases and more with this interactive PowerPoint.
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Collective Nouns Match Up Activity - Objects and People
A pack of 32 cards to use when learning about collective nouns.
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Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives – Sorting Task
Help students learn the difference between nouns, verbs, and adjectives with this cut-and-paste sorting worksheet.
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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 Interactive Activity (Lower Years)
Learn and consolidate four key parts of speech with this interactive PowerPoint.
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Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives – Digital Four Corners Game
Identify common and proper nouns, verbs and adjectives through this elimination-style types of words active game.
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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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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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Indefinite Pronouns Subject Verb Agreement Worksheets
Support your students’ understanding of indefinite pronouns subject-verb agreement with this set of five worksheets featuring a variety of fun grammar activities.
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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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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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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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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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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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Colour by Pronouns Worksheet Pack
Use this set of colour-by-pronouns worksheets to help your students learn these important parts of speech.
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Personal Pronouns Interactive Activity
Use these digital personal pronouns exercises in your grammar lessons to give your students practice in using these essential parts of speech.
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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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Personal Pronouns Matching Game
Familiarise your students with some of the most common personal pronouns using this fun matching game perfect for group work.
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Verbs in Pictures Activity
Explore verbs in action using these scenes at the playground and beach.
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Mixed Tense Worksheet Pack
Use these mixed tense worksheets to help your students identify past, present and future verb forms in a variety of contexts.
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Types of Verbs PowerPoint
Teach students about the different types of verbs with this set of 38 teaching slides with activities.
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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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Halloween Printables - Spooky Halloween Adjectives Worksheets
Bewitch your students into using descriptive adjectives with printable Halloween adjectives worksheets for Year 1 and Year 2 students.
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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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Find The Imposter! – Plural Suffixes Game
Teach your students apply suffixes to make plural nouns with this engaging interactive activity.
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