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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Pronoun Worksheet – Hansel and Gretel
Use this pronoun worksheet to get students identifying pronouns in the context of a well-known fairy tale.
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Collective Nouns Worksheet
Use this worksheet to review collective nouns with 8 fill-in-the-blank sentences and an accompanying word bank.
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Describing Dragons Worksheet
With this 2-page worksheet, students will draw an original dragon and describe it by writing sentences using vivid adjectives.
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Types of Verbs Worksheet
A worksheet that can be used to practice or assess students' knowledge of various types of verbs.
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Perfect Tense Verbs Worksheet
A series of three worksheets that contain passages written in the past, present, and future perfect tenses.
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Irregular Verbs Relay
An active relay race game in which students spell out irregular verbs.
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Action, Helping, and Linking Verbs Exit Ticket
Quickly assess your students' understanding of action, helping, and linking verbs with this exit ticket template.
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Apostrophe of Possession – Worksheets
A 3-page worksheet to help students reinforce their understanding of the apostrophe of possession.
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Adjectives Review Worksheet
Practice identifying adjectives in a sentence with this lesson review worksheet.
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Adjectives or BUST! Card Game
Play this engaging adjective identification card game with a small group of students or as a whole class.
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Adjectives: Articles Worksheet
A worksheet to practice working with articles.
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This or That! PowerPoint Game - Possessive Nouns
An active PowerPoint game to practice working with possessive nouns.
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This or That! PowerPoint Game - Common and Proper Nouns
An active PowerPoint game to practice working with common and proper nouns.
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Printable Seek and Find — In the Park Theme
A fun, search and find activity for students.
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BUMP! - Irregular Plural Nouns Board Game
A board game to practice forming irregular plural nouns.
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Parts of Speech Word Search – Nouns, Proper Nouns, and Verbs – Worksheet
Find and categorize nouns, proper nouns, and verbs in this word search-style worksheet.
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Noun and Verb Sort – Worksheet
A simple noun and verb sorting worksheet.
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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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Adjective Task Cards
Identify the adjective in the sentence through this set of 20 task cards.
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Prepositions Picture Puzzle
Practice recognizing and using common prepositions with our jungle-themed 15 piece picture puzzle.
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Adjectives and the Senses – Worksheet
Organize adjectives into the most appropriate sense with this cut and paste sorting worksheet.
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Nouns and Adjectives Tangle – Worksheet
A worksheet that focuses on creating sentences with nouns and adjectives.
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Prepositions Parking Lot Game
Practice recognizing and using prepositions with our game board with a set of 20 preposition cards.
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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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Adjectives Scoot Activity
Practice using adjectives to describe objects with this set of 20 task cards.
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Marine Animals Adjectives Worksheet
A set of 12 marine animal themed adjective teaching resource worksheets.
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Dinosaur Adjectives Worksheet
A set of 6 dinosaur themed adjective teaching resource worksheets.
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List of Adjectives - Words to Describe Mom
Describe the amazing moms in your students' lives with the help of a printable list of motherly adjectives.
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Gender Nouns Posters
A set of educational posters showing common gender nouns in the English language.
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Everyday Grammar Parts of Speech Warm-Ups – Grades 5 and 6
A 39-slide editable PowerPoint to use when reviewing parts of speech with your students.
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Spelling Suffixes Anchor Charts - Plurals
Help students understand when to apply the right plural spellings based on the ending of any word.
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Everyday Grammar Parts of Speech Warm Ups – Grades 1 and 2
A 40-slide editable PowerPoint to use when reviewing parts of speech with your students.
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