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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Parts of Speech Card Game – Upper Years Classroom Game – Set 2
A card game for nouns, verbs and adjectives.
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Parts of Speech Card Game – Upper Primary Classroom Game – Set 1
A card game for nouns, verbs and adjectives.
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Christmas Interactive: Singular and Plural Nouns
Practice using singular and plural nouns with a fun Christmas-themed interactive activity.
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Singular or Plural? Christmas Noun Sort
Help your students determine if words are singular or plural with a fun Christmas-themed noun sorting centre.
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Relative Adverb Scoot Game
Use this relative adverbs scoot game as a warm up or active learning activity to add some colour to your grammar lesson!
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Relative Adverbs Game
Incorporate this relative adverbs board game into your literacy rotations or as a fast finisher activity to reinforce the concept of relative adverbs.
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Interactive Halloween Preposition Game
Use this interactive Halloween preposition game to review some spooky grammar skills.
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Halloween Printables - Spooky Halloween Adjectives Worksheets
Bewitch your students into using descriptive adjectives with printable Halloween adjectives worksheets for Year 1 and Year 2 students.
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My Sweet Grandparents - Craft Activity
Show off your students’ ‘sweet’ grandparents with an adjective ice cream cone craft.
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Halloween Adjectives Word Search - Lower Years
Bring in the Halloween spirit this year, starting with a printable Halloween word search filled with spooky adjectives!
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Halloween Parts of Speech - Cut and Paste Worksheet
Have a bit of spooky fun sorting Halloween nouns, verbs, and adjectives with a cut and paste worksheet.
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Christmas Printables - Parts of Speech Cut and Paste Activities
Bring a bit of Christmas fun into your parts of speech lessons with printable Christmas worksheets
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Valentine's Day Grammar Worksheets
Review and practise a wide range of grammar skills with a pack of printable Valentine’s Day Grammar Worksheets.
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Parts of Speech Wall Display
A parts of speech wall display that includes posters and word wall cards.
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Christmas Worksheet - Singular and Plural Nouns
Identify singular and plural nouns with this Christmas worksheet.
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Christmas Task Cards - Past, Present and Future Tense Practise
Practice identifying past, present, and future tense verbs with a set of Christmas Verb Tense Task Cards!
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Christmas Possessive Nouns Worksheet
Practice identifying possessive nouns with this Christmas-themed worksheet.
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Father's Day Worksheet - Adjectives A to Z
Use adjectives to describe dads or father figures this Father’s Day.
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Pumpkin-Themed Parts of Speech Worksheets
Review key parts of speech by sorting nouns, verbs and adjectives with these four pumpkin-themed worksheets.
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Possessive Nouns - Interactive Peg Cards
Provide digital possessive noun practice activities for your learners with a Google Slides interactive activity.
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Parts of Speech Card Game – Editable
An editable parts of speech card game.
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Irregular Verbs Relay
An active relay race game in which students spell out irregular verbs.
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Net Trap Game: Articles - Worksheet
A risky elimination game to help students engage with their grammar skills with articles.
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Comical Chronicle Worksheets – Year 1
A set of 10 ad-lib style stories for students to complete.
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The Power of One Noun
A worksheet that can be used when studying nouns or as a getting to know you activity.
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Comical Chronicle Worksheets - Year 6
A set of 9 ad-lib style stories for students to complete.
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The Robot Chant – Comprehension Worksheet
A comprehension worksheet accompanying a rhyming chant about robots.
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Reflexive Pronouns – Worksheet
A worksheet that focuses on reflexive pronouns.
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Collective Nouns Match Up Activity - Objects and People
A pack of 32 cards to use when learning about collective nouns.
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Collective Nouns Match-Up Activity - Animals
A pack of 32 cards to use when learning about collective nouns.
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Halloween A to Z - Vocabulary Activity
Improve vocabulary and knowledge of nouns, verbs, and adjectives with a printable Halloween worksheet.
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Prepositional Phrase Mini Jigsaw Puzzle
5 mini jigsaw puzzles that require the students to construct prepositional phrases.