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.
- Plus Plan
Suffix Stars - Making Plurals Interactive
Practice reading and spelling plural nouns with an engaging Google Slides digital learning activity.
- Plus Plan
Find The Imposter! Interactive Suffix Game
Practice using the suffixes -s and -es to pluralize words with an exciting FInd the Imposter Interactive activity.
- Plus Plan
Parts of Speech - Color by Code Worksheet
Follow the color code to reveal the mystery image with a fun color-by-code worksheet.
- Plus Plan
April Fool’s Day Silly Story Worksheets
Celebrate April Fools' Day in the classroom with these fun silly story worksheets.
- Plus Plan
"Simon Says" Commands - Card Deck
A set of 24 instruction cards to use when playing "Simon Says."
- Plus Plan
Using Descriptive Adjectives - Tree Sloth Writing Prompt
Help your struggling writers build their skills with a descriptive paragraph prompt worksheet about tree sloths.
- Plus Plan
Singular and Plural Possessives Task Cards
Practice writing phrases using the correct singular or plural possessive noun with a set of task cards.
- Plus Plan
Singular Possessive Nouns Worksheet
Practice using singular possessive nouns with this worksheet.
- Plus Plan
Match and Write Compound Words - Worksheet
Match and write to form compound words with a compound word worksheet.
- Plus Plan
Comparative and Superlative Adjectives Interactive Puzzles
Provide your students with engaging, interactive activities to help them improve their usage of comparative and superlative adjectives.
- Plus Plan
Possessive Google Interactive
Engage your learners with a Google Interactive activity designed to build skill with possessive nouns.
- Plus Plan
Identifying Verbs - I Have, Who Has? Card Game
Play a fun and exciting game that is great for students who are now learning how to identify action verbs.
- Plus Plan
Past, Present, and Future Verb Tense Sentence Sort
Identify sentences written in past, present, and future tense with task cards designed for primary grades.
- Plus Plan
Past, Present, and Future Tense Worksheets - Grades 1/2
Provide students with additional verb tense practice with worksheets focusing on changing verbs into past, present, and future tense.
- Plus Plan
Google Slides Interactive- Past, Present, and Future Verbs Activity
Develop student skills using the correct forms of past, present, and future tense verbs with this Google Slides Interactive activity.
- Plus Plan
Where is the Dinosaur? - Positional Words - Differentiated Worksheets
Use this set of differentiated worksheets to practice positional words (prepositions).
- Plus Plan
Spot the Prepositional Phrase – Task Cards
Identify the prepositional phrase within a sentence with this set of 16 task cards.
- Plus Plan
Parts of Speech Card Game – Editable
An editable parts of speech card game.
- Plus Plan
Comical Chronicle Worksheets for 4th Grade
Practice different parts of speech with your 4th graders using this set of 10 ad-lib style stories.
- Plus Plan
Comical Chronicle Worksheets for 5th Grade
Practice different parts of speech with your 5th graders using this set of 10 ad-lib style stories.
- Plus Plan
Four In A Row Game - Nouns
Develop noun recognition with this set of 28 noun picture cards that students will identify to get 4 in a row.
- Plus Plan
Find It! Noun Game
Practice recognizing and using nouns with this set of 5 game boards.
- Plus Plan
Search and Find – At the Beach
A beautifully illustrated beach scene containing everyday items that need to be found.
- Plus Plan
Proper Nouns Crossword Puzzle - Worksheet
A crossword researching different proper nouns.
- Plus Plan
Writing Compound Sentences with Conjunctions Worksheet
Assign this worksheet to allow students to practice using coordinating conjunctions to create compound sentences.
- Free Plan
Nothing but Nouns Game
A game to practice working with common, proper, and collective nouns.
- Plus Plan
Irregular Verbs Relay
An active relay race game in which students spell out irregular verbs.
- Plus Plan
Adjectives or BUST! Card Game
Play this engaging adjective identification card game with a small group of students or as a whole class.
- Plus Plan
Parts of Speech Word Search – Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs, and Adverbs – Worksheet
Find and categorize nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs with this color by parts of speech worksheet.
- Plus Plan
Objective and Subjective Pronouns Worksheet
A 2-page worksheet to practice identifying and using objective and subjective pronouns.
- Plus Plan
Word of the Week Flip Book - Grade 5
A 43 page flip book for introducing new vocabulary to grade 5 students.
- Plus Plan
Word of the Week Flip Book - Grade 1
A 43 page flip book for introducing new vocabulary to year 1 students.
- Parts of Speech Worksheets
- Parts of Speech Games
- Parts of Speech Posters
- Parts of Speech Templates
- Parts of Speech for Pre-K
- Parts of Speech for Kindergarten
- Parts of Speech for 1st Grade
- Parts of Speech for 2nd Grade
- Parts of Speech for 3rd Grade
- Parts of Speech for 4th Grade
- Parts of Speech for 5th Grade
- Parts of Speech for 6th Grade