Looking for a Prepositional Phrase Worksheet Pack?

Once your students have mastered common prepositions of place, time and direction, the next step is to use these prepositions to create phrases that give more meaning to nouns and verbs. When used in their writing, prepositional phrases give descriptions more depth and make texts sound more sophisticated.

This prepositional phrase worksheet pack has been designed by the Teach Starter team to support your students in identifying and using adjectival and adverbial prepositional phrases. With eight unique worksheets, students will explore prepositional phrases through a variety of activities designed to make learning fun and engaging.

Some of the activities you will find in this prepositional phrase worksheet pack include:

1. Add Detail with Prepositions – Rewrite each sentence by adding a prepositional phrase to make it more detailed.
2. Fix the Mistake – Rewrite each sentence to fix the incorrect usage of the prepositional phrases.
3. Preposition Story – Write a story based on the prompt provided that includes various examples of prepositional phrases.
4. Picture Prepositions – Write clues to describe where particular objects are located within the picture stimulus.
5. Prepositional Phrase Riddles – Use context clues and prepositional phrases to figure out the answers to the riddles.

This prepositional phrases worksheet pack downloads as an easy-print PDF or an editable Google Slides file. Answers are included in both file options.

Use This Prepositional Phrases Worksheet Pack for Differentiation

The beauty of this prepositional phrases worksheet pack is that it contains a variety of activity types that can be used to cater for learners of different ability levels. Here’s how you might go about doing this with your students:

• Less Confident Students – Provide these students with more scaffolded worksheets, such as those that have sentences that need fixing or need more detail added.
• More Confident Students – Provided these students with more open-ended tasks that allow greater freedom, such as the story prompt activity.

You might also like to encourage on-level students to choose a worksheet based on an activity type that appeals to them.

Download These Prepositional Phrases Worksheets

Use the dropdown menu on the Download button to access your preferred version of these prepositional phrase worksheets. (Note: You will be prompted to make a copy of the Google Slides version to your personal drive before accessing it.)

As this resource contains answer sheets, we recommend printing one copy of the entire file. Then, remove the answer sheets and make photocopies of the worksheets as required.

This resource was created by Kaylyn Chupp, a teacher in Florida and a Teach Starter collaborator.

Resources to Complement These Prepositional Phrase Worksheets

Looking for more teacher-created, curriculum-aligned activities for prepositional phrases? Click below to explore these hand-picked suggestions from our team.

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Preposition Anchor Chart Pack

Enhance your classroom with this preposition anchor chart pack featuring three visually appealing posters explaining prepositions of place, time and direction.

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Preposition Activity – Read and Draw

Download this preposition activity pack, where students read a series of instructions to draw scenes by identifying prepositions.

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Prepositional Phrases Practice Task Cards

Make prepositional phrases practice engaging with this set of 20 task cards, designed to help students identify and use prepositional phrases.