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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Vivid Action Verbs Posters - Using Strong Verbs
Teach your students to omit boring, overused verbs from their writing with a classroom set of Vivid Verb Posters.
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Creating an Imaginary Animal - Descriptive Language Activity
A creative activity to introduce students to descriptive and comparative language.
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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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Animal Collective Nouns Posters
Introduce your students to collective nouns for animals with a set of printable animal collective nouns posters.
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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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Irregular Plural Worksheets
Use this set of 9 irregular plural activity worksheets to reinforce key grammar concepts while keeping students motivated and on-task.
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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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Subject Verb Agreement Collective Nouns Worksheets
Download these subject-verb agreement collective nouns worksheets to help your students master tricky singular and plural verb choices when using collective nouns.
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Preposition Worksheets for Kindergarten
Use these preposition worksheets for Kindergarten to get your students identifying and using these essential parts of speech.
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Preposition Flashcards
Engage young learners with preposition flashcards that provide clear and engaging visual representations of common prepositions of place.
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Possessive Pronouns Worksheet Pack
Use this possessive pronouns worksheet pack to get your students identifying and using these essential parts of speech.
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Pronoun Task Cards
Get your students to practice using pronouns with this set of task cards perfect for reading centers.
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Possessive Pronouns Sorting Activity
Use this sorting activity in your grammar lessons to teach your students about possessive pronouns.
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Cut and Paste Shades of Meaning Verb Sort
Engage your students in exploring subtle differences between verbs with this set of two cut and paste worksheets.
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Commonly Used Verbs Flashcards
Teach commonly used verbs with this set of printable action cards.
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Strong Verbs Teaching Slides
Discover how to use strong verbs in sentences with this set of teaching slides.
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Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives Flashcards
Create a variety of grammar activities with printable noun, verb and adjective flashcards.
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Subordinating Conjunctions Worksheet
Use this worksheet to enable students to practice identifying and constructing sentences using subordinating conjunctions.
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Parts of Speech Word Cards Sorting Activity
Engage your students with this parts of speech group activity where they sort 112 word cards into categories (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, coordinating conjunctions or prepositions).
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Adverb Whole Class Game
Teach your students how to use adverbs to add detail in simple sentences with this fun whole-class game!
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Comparative and Superlative Adverb Task Cards
Introduce these comparative and superlative adverbs task cards to your class to grow their understanding of these types of adverbs!
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Describing Community Helpers - Fireman Worksheets
Get students exploring descriptive adjectives with these printable Community Helpers Fireman worksheets, perfect for Early Grades learning.
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Everyday Grammar Parts of Speech Warm-Ups – Grades 3 and 4
A 39-slide editable PowerPoint to use when reviewing parts of speech with your students.
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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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Singular and Plural Possessives Task Cards
Practice writing phrases using the correct singular or plural possessive noun with a set of task cards.
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Preposition Practice Worksheets
Download these preposition practice worksheets, featuring five interactive cut-and-paste activities designed to reinforce understanding of positional language.
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Verb Tense Worksheet
Provide students with additional verb tense practice with a past, present, and future tense worksheet.
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Conjunctions Anchor Chart Pack
Display this set of 7 text connectives posters to remind students about the types of sentence connectives and conjunctions.
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Positive, Comparative, and Superlative Adverbs Task Cards
Practice using positive, comparative, and superlative adverbs in sentences with a set of adverb task cards.
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Insect Adjectives – Worksheet
A set of 10 insect themed adjective worksheets to use in the classroom when learning about insects.
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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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Irregular Plural Noun Match-Up
Practice using irregular plural nouns with an Irregular Plural Noun Matching Activity.
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