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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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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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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Verb or Not Sorting Activity
Allow students the opportunity to show their verb awareness with this verb or not a verb lolly sorting activity.
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Verb Tenses Sorting Activity
Explore verb tenses through an engaging, hands‑on sorting activity that helps students confidently identify past, present and future tense sentences.
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Verb Tenses Quiz Worksheet
Assess your students' knowledge of verb tenses with this 5-question quiz.
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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 Game Show
Use this interactive digital activity to assist your students in practising identifying and constructing sentences using subordinating conjunctions in a fun way!
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Adverbial Phrases Roll and Write Activity
Along with your students, roll and write your way to hilarious silly sentences with adverb phrases with this printable worksheet!
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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.
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Parts of Speech Wall Display
A parts of speech wall display that includes posters and word wall cards.
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Parts of Speech Word Search (Nouns, Adjectives and Verbs) – Worksheet
A word search where students find and categorise nouns, adjectives and verbs.
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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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Australian Animals Adjectives Worksheet
A set of 12 Australian animal themed adjective teaching resource worksheets.
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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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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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Pronouns Poster Pack
Display this set of 7 pronouns posters in your classroom to remind your students of the most common types of pronouns and their uses.
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Possessive Pronouns Sorting Activity
Use this sorting activity in your grammar lessons to teach your students about possessive pronouns.
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Verbs Around Us Worksheet Pack
Practise identifying verbs in a collection of words with this set of five verb worksheets.
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Verb Tense Regular and Irregular Sorting Activity
Help students understand the difference between a regular and irregular verb tense group with this hands-on verb sorting activity.
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Present and Past Tense Irregular Verbs Matchup Cards
A set of 30 match-up cards to help students learn about simple present tense and simple past tense of irregular verbs.
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Commonly Used Verbs Flashcards
Teach commonly used verbs with this set of printable flashcards.
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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.
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Adverb Whole Class Game
Teach your students how to use adverbs to add detail in simple sentences with this fun whole-class game!
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Common and Proper Nouns - Interactive Activity
Identify common and proper nouns by sorting words in their context.
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Grandparents' Day Worksheet — Adjectives A to Z
Celebrate Grandparents' Day in the classroom with awesome adjectives!
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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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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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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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Grammar Game - Name That Noun!
A fun game for students to play in small groups to consolidate their understanding of nouns.
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Verbs Game – Flip It!
A fun game for students to play in small groups to consolidate their understanding of verbs.
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Verb Tense Digital Quiz
Boost verb tense understanding with an engaging self-checking quiz that helps students confidently identify past, present and future sentences.
- Parts of Speech Worksheets
- Parts of Speech Games
- Parts of Speech Posters
- Parts of Speech Teaching Presentations
- Parts of Speech Templates
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- Parts of Speech for Year 1
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- Parts of Speech for Year 3
- Parts of Speech for Year 4
- Parts of Speech for Year 5
- Parts of Speech for Year 6