Parts of Speech Teaching Resources
Teach students the parts of speech this school year with printable worksheets, descriptive language activities, sorting games and more primary 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 Australian curriculum, the collection includes editable worksheets and teaching presentations and more to save primary teachers time on lesson planning.
Created by expert teachers, each resource in this English 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 categorise words according to their part of speech, we know which grammatical rules to use with them.
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 favourites to inspire your grammar lessons!
- Funny Sentence Game — Introduce the five main parts of speech — noun, verb, pronoun, adjective and adverb — and have students fill out 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, work out 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 coloured pencils. Assign each part of speech a colour. Each group should assign one colour/part of speech to one member. Set a timer, and challenge students to find and circle as many of their part of speech as they can during the time allowed. The group that finds the most words that are correctly labelled 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 colour 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 colour 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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Comical Chronicle Worksheets – Year 3 – Set 2
A set of 10 ad-lib style stories for students to complete.
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Common Noun Upgrade - Worksheet
A worksheet for students to learn about times when typical common nouns become proper nouns.
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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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Plotting Prepositions Net Game - Worksheet
A fun guessing risk game that gives students the opportunity to engage with prepositions.
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Personal Pronoun Scrambler - Worksheet
An personal pronoun activity where students need to cut out mixed letters to create all the personal pronoun types.
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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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Label These Sentences! – Worksheet
A worksheet that requires students to label the parts of speech in sentences.
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Noun and Verb Sort – Worksheet
A simple noun and verb sorting worksheet.
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Grammar Sentence Challenge Worksheet
Practise using different parts of speech in a written piece of text with this grammar activity.
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Word of the Week Flip Book - Year 5
A 43 page flip book for introducing new vocabulary to year 5 students.
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Word of the Week PowerPoint - Year 1
A 40 slide PowerPoint Template for introducing new vocabulary to year 1 students.
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Food Pyramid Adjectives Worksheet
A set of 32 food pyramid themed adjective teaching resource worksheets.
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Paragraph Study Punctuation Interactive PowerPoint
Interactive PowerPoint presentation allowing teachers and students to learn and revise punctuation by highlighting paragraphs.
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Relative Adverbs Worksheet Pack
Use this pack of five worksheets to help your students practise the correct use of relative adverbs in text.
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Relative Adverbs Interactive Activity
Use this relative adverbs interactive activity as a warm up for your grammar lesson or to refresh students’ memories before a writing session!
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Using Descriptive Adjectives - Sloth Writing Prompt
Write a descriptive paragraph about a sloth using the provided adjectives.
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I Know 100 Nouns! 100th Day Activity Book
Blend the 100th Day of School with grammar practise by making a book that contains 100 nouns!
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The Three Little Pigs and Their Article Mess - Worksheet
A reading exercise of the classic story of The Three Little Pigs with incorrect articles students need to fix.
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Illustration Pronoun Prompts - Worksheet
A worksheet with image prompts for students to exercise their knowledge of pronouns.
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Global Proper Nouns - Worksheet
A mapping activity that prompts students to use their grammar knowledge of proper nouns.
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Common Nouns in Your House - Worksheet
Two activities that help students think about common nouns.
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How to Make Pancakes: Article Edition - Worksheet
A procedure text for students to read about how to make pancakes with the articles removed for students to fill in.
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Comical Chronicle Worksheets - Year 3
A set of 10 ad-lib style stories for students to complete.
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BUMP! Possessive Nouns – Board Game
A board game to practise writing possessive nouns using apostrophes.
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Dolch Sight Word Flashcards - Nouns
Use these flashcards to help students practice their Dolch sight words.
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Adver-relays Active Learning Game
A whole class active game that encourages learning through a physical setting.
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Grammar Bookmarks - Upper Grades
A quick reference grammar guide for students on a beautifully-designed bookmark.
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Word of the Week Flip Book - Year 1
A 43 page flip book for introducing new vocabulary to year 1 students.
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Word of the Week Flip Book - Year 2
A 43 page flip book for introducing new vocabulary to year 2 students.
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Word of the Week Flip Book - Foundation
A 43 page flip book for introducing new vocabulary to foundation students.
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Minibeast Adjectives Worksheet
A set of 12 insect themed adjective worksheets to use in the classroom when learning about minibeasts.
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Parts of Speech Card Game – Upper Years Classroom Game – Set 3
A card game for nouns, verbs and adjectives.