Parts of Speech Teaching Resources
Teach students the parts of speech this school year with printable worksheets, descriptive language activities, sorting games and more elementary 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 Common Core curriculum, the ELA collection includes editable worksheets and teaching presentations and more to save elementary teachers time on lesson planning.
Created by expert teachers, each resource in this grammar 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 categorize words according to their part of speech, we know which grammatical rules to use.
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 favorites to inspire your grammar lessons!
- Funny Sentence Game — Introduce the five main parts of speech — noun, verb, pronoun, adjective and adverb — and have students complete 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, determine 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 colored pencils. Assign each part of speech a color. Each group should assign one color/part of speech to one member. Set a timer, and challenge students to find and circle as many of their assigned part of speech as they can during the time allowed. The group that finds the most words that are correctly labeled 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 color 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 color 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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Common Adjectives for Kids - Printable Adjective List
Print your students a list of adjectives to keep at hand when writing to help them use descriptive language.
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Fall Color By Part of Speech Worksheet - Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs
Use this color by part of speech worksheet as a fun fall activity with your students.
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Noun, Verb, and Adjective Sort - Worksheet
Help students learn the difference between nouns, verbs, and adjectives with this cut-and-paste sorting worksheet.
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Elaborate Verb Tenses Digital Quiz
Download this engaging verb tenses quiz to help your students confidently identify and apply past, present and future forms in real sentences.
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Parts of Speech Game Board
Reinforce your parts of speech lesson with our differentiated parts of speech game board.
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Glorious Grammar Volume 1 Workbook
50 activities in one booklet which all revolve around learning grammar in the classroom.
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Find It! Noun Game
Practice recognizing and using nouns with this set of 5 game boards.
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Verb Tense Consistency Worksheet Pack
Download this verb tense consistency worksheet pack to help your students use past, present and future tenses correctly in sentences and paragraphs.
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Properties of Materials Beanbag Toss Game - Describing Matter
Explore and describe the properties of materials with an exciting beanbag toss game.
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Verb Past Tense Worksheet
A worksheet with simple and irregular past tense verbs added to complete the sentences.
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Verb Worksheet Pack
Use this set of engaging verb worksheets to explore verbs in the Kindergarten classroom.
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Noun Phrase Examples Sorting Activity
Teach noun phrase examples with this hands-on sorting activity where students decide whether the order of adjectives in each noun phrase is correct or incorrect.
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Order of Adjectives Chart
Use this order of adjectives chart to explain the sequence that must be followed when adding adjectives to a noun to create a noun group.
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Sort It Out! Common and Proper Nouns Game
Use common and proper noun games to help your students practice identifying examples of different types of nouns.
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Possessive Pronouns Interactive Activity
Use these digital possessive pronouns exercises in your grammar lessons to give your students practice in using these essential parts of speech.
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Grammar Practice Worksheets - Vocabulary Cut and Sort
Review parts of speech and word usage skills with a pack of cut-and-paste Grammar Sorting Worksheets.
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Relative Adverb Scoot Game
Use this relative adverbs scoot game as a warm up or active learning activity to add some color to your grammar lesson!
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Plural Nouns Chart - Printable Plural Rules Guide
Give your students a reference guide to help them remember all of the different plural rules.
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Parts of Speech - Color by Code Worksheet
Follow the color code to reveal the mystery image with a fun color-by-code worksheet.
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Writing Singular Possessive Nouns Worksheet
Practice writing singular possessive nouns with a possessive worksheet.
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Fall Color by Part of Speech - Nouns and Verbs Worksheet
Use this fall color by part of speech worksheet to review nouns and verbs.
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Positional Words for Kindergarten – Interactive Clip Cards
Teach positional words for kindergarten with these interactive digital clip cards, designed to help young learners master prepositions.
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Grammar Grid Mystery Picture Worksheet- Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives (Bunny)
Follow the color-coded parts of speech guide to fill in the word grid and reveal a mystery image.
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Positional Words Worksheets – Where Is the Dinosaur?
Download this differentiated set of dinosaur-themed positional words worksheets, designed to support learners at different levels.
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Identifying Parts of Speech (Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs and Adverbs) Worksheet Pack
Practice identifying nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs in text with this set of worksheets.
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Landscape Adjective Hunt Worksheet Pack
Use these worksheets to help your Year 2 students bring settings to life using adjectives in descriptive writing.
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What Is a Noun Phrase? Teaching Slides
Answer the question “What is a noun phrase?” with this engaging slide deck designed to help elementary students use descriptive language in their writing.
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Noun Phrases Worksheet Pack
Teach noun phrases 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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Adverb Worksheets PDF - Grade 1
Use this printable Adverb Worksheets PDF - Grade 1 Resource to help your little learners practice identifying adverbs.
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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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Relative Pronouns Worksheet Pack
Use this relative pronouns worksheet pack to get your students identifying and using these essential parts of speech.
- Parts of Speech Worksheets
- Parts of Speech Games
- Parts of Speech Posters
- Parts of Speech Templates
- Parts of Speech for Kindergarten
- Parts of Speech for 1st Grade
- Parts of Speech for 2nd Grade
- Parts of Speech for 3rd Grade
- Parts of Speech for 4th Grade
- Parts of Speech for 5th Grade
- Parts of Speech for 6th Grade