Prepositions Teaching Resources
If you're teaching preposition words, prepositional phrases, and common prepositions this school year, our teacher team has got your back. Say hello to printable worksheets, digital activities and more teaching resources created by teachers and vetted by expert teachers to make teaching this part of the English curriculum a little bit easier!
Cut that lesson planning time with resources that can be easily edited to meet the Australian standards and a variety of options to differentiate instruction for your students' individual needs.
What Is a Preposition?
OK, maybe it's been a while since you were teaching students how to use prepositions. Our English teaching experts have put together this quick review to get you back in the mindset!
A preposition is the first part of a prepositional phrase that indicates the location of the object that is the subject of a sentence. Children begin to learn preposition/positional words in school as early as Foundation, although they have likely used these location indicators even earlier without knowing it. Check out the collection for some examples of prepositions and exciting preposition activities for kids!
How to Teach Prepositions of Place
While some knowledge of prepositions comes along with daily conversation, it takes a bit of practise to master them. This is especially true for EAL/D students. There are hundreds of ways to teach prepositions, all of them being effective in their own ways. Try out a few of these ideas for teaching your students about prepositions of place and positional words.
- Teach prepositions during group activities using resources like preposition worksheets, Google Interactive positional word activities, and peg cards.
- Play preposition games for kids. You can play Preposition Bingo, dominoes, or go Bowling for Prepositions!
- Try using positional language to teach prepositions with 'I Spy' or 'Search and Find' activities.
- Print or make a Prepositions Poster and use it as a classroom reference or instructional tool while your students complete a set of task cards or put together a preposition puzzle.
- Provide your students with the positional words they need to communicate by printing them a list of prepositions or a list of prepositional phrases.
If you teach upper grades, move out of simple prepositions and into prepositional phrases for year 4 and 5 students. You'll find prepositional phrase worksheets and games as well!
Some of the concepts can be daunting to teach, so now that you’ve got some options, make sure to check out the various worksheets, lesson plans, and prepositions of place exercises to plan even more preposition practise activities.
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Colour by Parts of Speech - Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives and Prepositions - Owl
Consolidate parts of speech by colouring nouns, verbs, adjectives and prepositions on the owl.
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Positional Words Interactive Activity
Practice using position words (prepositions) with this Google Slides interactive activity.
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Prepositions Worksheet
A worksheet that explores the use of prepositions.
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Preposition Monkey Business - Worksheet
A worksheet which includes an image prompt for students to make creative sentences about prepositions.
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Picture the Preposition Worksheet
A worksheet that explores prepositions through reading, interpreting and drawing.
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Interactive Halloween Preposition Game
Use this interactive Halloween preposition game to review some spooky grammar skills.
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Prepositional Phrase Mini Jigsaw Puzzle
5 mini jigsaw puzzles that require the students to construct prepositional phrases.
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Halloween Finish the Drawing - Preposition Worksheets
Finish the drawing to create a fun Halloween scene with a set of preposition worksheets.
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Haunted Preposition House - Halloween Worksheet
Practise using prepositions and prepositional phrases with a a fun and spooky Halloween worksheet!
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Plotting Prepositions Net Game - Worksheet
A fun guessing risk game that gives students the opportunity to engage with prepositions.
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Preposition Bingo
Thirty-two preposition bingo cards with sentences.