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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Coordinating Conjunctions Dice Game
Use this hands on activity for students to create two 8 sided-dice and write compound sentences using coordinating conjunctions.
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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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Halloween Adjectives Word Search - Lower Years
Bring in the Halloween spirit this year, starting with a printable Halloween word search filled with spooky adjectives!
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Pumpkin Possessives Worksheet
Practise identifying possessive nouns with this pumpkin-themed worksheet.
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I Know 100 Nouns! 100th Day Activity Book
Blend the 100th Day of School with grammar practice by making a book that contains 100 nouns!
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Adjective Emoji Four in a Row
Match emoji picture cards with their corresponding descriptive adjectives with a fun game of Four-in-a-Row.
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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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Christmas Worksheet - Singular and Plural Nouns
Identify singular and plural nouns with this Christmas worksheet.
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Father's Day Worksheet - Adjectives A to Z
Use adjectives to describe dads or father figures this Father’s Day.
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Pumpkin-Themed Parts of Speech Worksheets
Review key parts of speech by sorting nouns, verbs and adjectives with these four pumpkin-themed worksheets.
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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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Possessive Google Interactive
Engage your learners with a Google Interactive activity designed to build skill with possessive nouns.
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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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Mad Lib Worksheets – Year 5
A set of 10 mad lib-style stories for students to complete.
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Mad Lib Worksheets – Year 3
A set of 10 mad 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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Comical Chronicle Worksheets – Year 1
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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Mad Lib Worksheets – Year 6
A set of 9 mad lib-style stories for students to complete.
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Grammar and Punctuation Assessment Tool – Year 4
A set of 5 grammar and punctuation assessment tools suited to Year 4 students.
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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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Collective Nouns Match Up Activity - Objects and People
A pack of 32 cards to use when learning about collective nouns.
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The Ultimate Parts of Speech Flip Book
Don't miss this parts of speech resource that will make teaching and learning grammar easy.
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- 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