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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Grandparents' Day Worksheet — Adjectives A to Z
Celebrate Grandparents' Day in the classroom with awesome adjectives!
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Comparative and Superlative Adverbs - Match-Up Activity
Practice using comparative and superlative adverbs with a matching activity.
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Possessive Nouns - Interactive Peg Cards
Provide digital possessive noun practice activities for your learners with a Google Slides interactive activity.
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Possessive Nouns - Four in a Row Game
Practise using the correct forms of possessive nouns with an exciting game of Four-in-a-Row!
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Adverbs Activity : Grammar Charades
Have some fun and build grammar skills with an adverb charades activity.
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Possessive Google Interactive
Engage your learners with a Google Interactive activity designed to build skill with possessive nouns.
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Irregular Plural Noun Match-Up
Practise using irregular plural nouns with an irregular plural noun matching activity.
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100 Action Verbs Activity
Practise counting to 100 by 1’s and 10’s with this set of 24 action cards that get students moving, reading and writing.
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Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives – Four Corners Game
Identify common and proper nouns, verbs and adjectives through this elimination-style types of words active game.
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Adjectives and the Senses – Worksheet
A sorting worksheet where students organise adjectives into the most appropriate sense.
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Parts of Speech Card Game – Editable
An editable parts of speech card game.
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Comical Chronicle Worksheets – Year 5
A set of 10 ad-lib style stories for students to complete.
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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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Parts of Speech Word Search (Nouns and Verbs) – Worksheet
A word search where students find and categorise nouns and verbs.
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Past, Present and Future Simple Tense Verbs Worksheet
An ad-lib style worksheet where students can add their own simple past, present and future tense verbs.
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Irregular Verbs Relay
An active relay race game in which students spell out irregular verbs.
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The Three Little Pigs and Their Article Mess - Worksheet
A reading exercise of the classic story of The Three Little Pigs with incorrect articles students need to fix.
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Comical Chronicle Worksheets – Year 3 – Set 2
A set of 10 ad-lib style stories for students to complete.
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Irregular Past Tense Verbs Worksheet
A worksheet that helps students identify irregular verbs.
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Imagine Conjunctions Worksheet
Spark students' creativity with this conjunctions worksheet containing four images to prompt students to write compound sentences.
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Apostrophes of Possession Card Game
An interactive card game for students to play when consolidating their understanding of apostrophes of possession.
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Comical Chronicle Worksheets – Year 1
A set of 10 ad-lib style stories for students to complete.
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The Power of One Noun
A worksheet that can be used when studying nouns or as a getting to know you activity.
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Comical Chronicle Worksheets - Year 3
A set of 10 ad-lib style stories for students to complete.
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Grammar Toss Active Game
An active game that allows students to test and build their knowledge of words and parts of speech.
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Read and Colour Worksheet – Singular and Plural Nouns
A worksheet to practise identifying singular and plural nouns.
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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 Group Tangle – Worksheet
A worksheet that focuses on nouns combining with adjectives to create noun groups.
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Label These Sentences! – Worksheet
A worksheet that requires students to label the parts of speech in sentences.
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Noun and Verb Sort – Worksheet
A simple noun and verb sorting worksheet.
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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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Collective Nouns Match-Up Activity - Animals
A pack of 32 cards to use when learning about collective nouns.
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