Grammar Teaching Resources
Browse printable grammar worksheets, games for kids and more writing activities for elementary or middle school. You'll even find free grammar downloads for your ELA lesson plans to help students learn the different parts of speech, understand sentence structure and learn how to create grammatically correct sentences.
This comprehensive collection of teacher resources was created by teachers for teachers just like you. Explore printables and digital downloads that are aligned with TEKS and the Common Core curriculum and easily editable to meet your state standards!
Best of all, each resource has undergone a careful review by an expert member of our teacher team to ensure it's ready for your classroom, your lesson plan and your students!
Is this your first year teaching grammar to kids? Or are you just looking for fresh ideas to engage your students on this aspect of writing? Read on for a primer from our teacher team!
7 Things Teachers Need on Hand for Teaching Grammar
So you're teaching grammar this school year? Welcome to the wonderful world of words (and sentences ... and punctuation!).
You may be wondering what you'll need to prepare to ensure you have everything on hand to actually teach students the mechanics of writing, so our teacher team has put together a comprehensive list of classroom supplies that will make it easier!
- Anchor chart paper and markers
- Graphic organizers
- Writing rubrics
- Postcards and other cards for your writing centers
- Envelopes
- Clipboards
- Samples of writing
What Is Grammar in English? A Kid-Friendly Definition
Before you launch into the wonderful world of writing conventions with your class, it can be helpful to define the meaning of grammar in the context of your ELA instruction.
Here's a definition our teacher team likes to use:
Grammar is a set of writing rules that help us communicate effectively. It helps us to organize words, phrases and sentences in a way that makes sense to others. Without grammar, our sentences would be scrambled and hard to understand!
How to Teach Grammar — Tips From Our Teacher Team
If you're sitting down to map out your grammar lesson plans, and you're not quite sure where to begin, it can be helpful to take a look at how other teachers structure their lessons.
With that in mind, we asked a few teachers on our team to share their process for doing exactly that!
Start With Phrases and Clauses
One teacher on our team uses this order for her grammar lessons:
- Phrases and clauses
- Sentence types
- Punctuation rules
The reason?
Students need to understand the difference between a phrase and a clause to lay the foundation for creating organized sentences.
Likewise, it's important to know the difference between independent and dependent clauses before you can start teaching the different sentence types.
Finally, teaching sentence types gives students a solid foundation for introducing comma rules.
Start With FANBOYS
Another teacher on our team suggests teaching grammar in this order:
- Teach students about coordinating conjunctions and the FANBOYS acronym.
- Move on to phrases and clauses.
- Next, work on sentence structure.
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Identifying Positive, Comparative, and Superlative Adverbs - Task Cards
Identify positive, comparative, and superlative adverbs in sentences with a set of twenty task cards.
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Google Slides - Adjectives Interactive Activity
Provide your students with engaging, interactive activities to help them improve their usage of descriptive adjectives.
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Possessive Nouns - Interactive Clipcards
Provide digital possessive noun practice activities for your learners with a Google Interactive activity.
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Possessive Nouns - Four in a Row Game
Practice using the correct forms of possessive nouns with an exciting game of Four-in-a-Row!
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Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences Sorting Activity
Practice reading, identifying and writing simple, compound, and complex sentences with a sorting 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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Past, Present and Future Worksheets
Download these past, present and future worksheets to help your students confidently identify and use correct verb tenses in sentences and paragraphs.
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Past, Present, and Future Tense Worksheets - Grades 1/2
Provide students with additional verb tense practice with worksheets focusing on changing verbs into past, present, and future tense.
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Dressing Up A Sentence - Interactive or Printable Activity
Encourage students to add more descriptive language into their sentence writing with this activity.
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Common and Proper Nouns - Google Interactive Activity
Identify common and proper nouns by sorting words in their context.
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Capitalization Task Cards (Grades 4-5)
Practice capitalizing less frequently occurring words (historical periods, events, languages, races, nationalities, and more) with 28 text task cards.
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Types of Sentences Sorting Worksheet
A cut and paste sorting worksheet to practice identifying the four types of sentences.
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Find and Color - Verb Tense Worksheet
Differentiate between different verb tenses through this 1-page coloring worksheet.
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Fixing Capitalization Worksheet
Reinforce capitalization rules with this capital letters worksheet that features 10 sentences with missing capitalization.
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Printable Seek and Find — In the Park Theme
A fun, search and find activity for students.
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Subject and Object Pronouns Worksheet
Download this 2-page worksheet to get your students using objective and subjective pronouns.
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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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Active Voice and Passive Voice Worksheet
A worksheet for students to use when learning about active voice and passive voice.
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Punctuation Poster
A cute punctuation poster to display in your classroom.
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Grammar and Punctuation Checklist Bookmarks
Use these grammar and punctuation checklist bookmarks to support your students in editing their writing.
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Verb Grammar Card Game - Flip It!
A fun game for students to play in small groups to reinforce their understanding of verbs.
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Using Adjectives: Read and Draw Fairy Tale Characters
Use this engaging set of Using Adjectives: Read and Draw Fairy Tale Characters worksheets when exploring adjectives through drawing.
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Successful Sentences – Sentence Construction Cards
Word cards for constructing complex sentences.
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Verb Suffixes Teaching Slides (s, ed, ing)
Teach verb suffixes to your class with ease using this engaging slide deck that helps students understand when to apply the suffixes -s, -ed and -ing to change verb tense.
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Verb Suffixes Worksheets (s, ed, ing)
Download these suffix worksheets to help students confidently identify and apply the verb tense suffixes -s, -ed and -ing.
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Simple Sentences Cut and Paste Worksheets
Build confident early readers with this engaging Simple Sentence Cut and Paste Worksheet Set.
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Writing Simple Sentences - Write the Room Activity
Use this simple sentence writing activity to learn how to write simple sentences with words around the room
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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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Prepositional Phrases in Context Worksheet Pack
Download this prepositional phrase worksheet pack set to help students identify, analyze and confidently use prepositional phrases in real writing contexts.
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Nouns Worksheet Pack
Use these noun worksheets to support students in identifying and using nouns within sentences.
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Parts of Speech Fill-in-the-Blanks Worksheets
Use this set of fun fill-in-the-blanks mad lib parts of speech worksheets to explore parts of speech in a fun way.
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Digital Verb Tenses Quiz
Download this verb tenses quiz to test your students’ ability to identify past, present and future verbs in sentences.