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I think teaching grammar used to be my most favorite thing to do when I was in the classroom!
Yes, it can be a little bland and isn’t necessarily a subject kids are super excited about.
But, the key is to teach with activities and resources that are fun and get the students excited to come to your classroom!
When they have a positive attitude about what they’re learning and are excited for the lesson to come, that’s where the magic happens.
I have a couple of grammar bundles to share with you, as well as several activity ideas to make teaching grammar your favorite thing to do, too! 😉
Raise your hand if you’re tired of constantly looking for activities to teach parts of speech.
My hand was always raised!
I’m a grammar fiend, but I was always searching for new ways to teach my students.
This bundle is loaded with all the parts of speech – adjectives, adverbs, articles, nouns, conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns, and verbs!
It also includes abbreviations, common and proper nouns, contractions, singular and plural nouns, subject and predicate, types of sentences, as well as an activity specifically for statements and questions!
Each resource is loaded with different questions that incorporate sorting out specific parts of speech and working with definitions of their purpose, fill-in-the-blank, and short answer.
The parts of speech resources really focus on using the questions that some parts of speech ask, in order to identify what they are in a sentence.
For example, adverbs ask, “How? When? Where?” and adjectives ask, “What kind? Which one? How many?” As students go through a sentence, they’re able to find the words that are answering these questions, as well as the words they are referring to.
I love the variety of activities within all of these topics!
I have also included editable versions of the resources so you can edit them yourself and use them over and over with new questions of your own!
I definitely recommend previewing each resource so you can see what each one offers a little more in detail! 🙂 There are 16!!
You can find them all in the bundle here!
There are 15 resources in this bundle also focusing on abbreviations, adjectives, adverbs, articles, nouns (common, proper, singular, plural, and possessive), conjunctions, contractions, prepositions, pronouns, verbs, subject and predicate, and types of sentences.
Each topic includes anywhere from 4-6 different pixels.
As the student correctly answers the question, the correct coloring appears. If they answer incorrectly, incorrect coloring appears.
These pixels do come with an answer key, but are also self-checking for the students so they can tell if their picture is accurate or not!
What I love about these is that they aren’t all your standard multiple choice or yes/no questions!
For example, the contractions resource will have the students take contractions apart to show the 2 words it creates, as well as putting the 2 words together and correctly spelling the contraction.
The pixels will have your students reading sentences and using their skills to identify the parts of speech or area of grammar you’re focusing on!
All of the content differs from that in the Google Classroom bundle.
The Google Classroom bundle is perfect for laying a foundation of grammar, while the pixels will help build upon their understanding and can even serve as short, formative assessments!
No prep or grading required? That’s my favorite kind of assessment! 😉
Just as the Google Classroom resource, I definitely suggest taking a look at the pixels included. You can find them all here!
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If you’re a Google fan and already use Google Classroom, I totally recommend doing a parts of speech color coding activity!
All you have to do is create a Google doc and list the sentences you’d like to have them label.
Around 5 sentences might be a good amount to begin with if your students haven’t had much practice using text features!
Before you assign the document, you’ll need to give each part of speech its own color.
Nouns could be blue, verbs are red, prepositions be yellow, etc. The idea then is to completely label each word by its part of speech by changing the text color.
For example: Articles are green, and adjectives are pink! Street would be the object of the preposition, which you could definitely label as a different color.
But if you haven’t gotten that far in your unit, you can keep it labeled as a noun or pronoun. 🙂
Keyboarding skills are so important to work on at this age, and understanding Google Docs is a great skill to have!
You can incorporate technology even more into this lesson by talking about more features in the doc like highlighting or even underlining.
Make this activity more challenging by having them underline the subject, and leave the predicate part of the sentence blank!
I also recommend showing your students how to make their own copy of the main page of sentences before every student starts color-coding the master document!
They can then submit their own individual document into Google Classroom!
(Looking for more ELA activities? Make sure to check out my post here on virtual ELA activities!).
You know I love good DIY games and read alouds! 🙂
Never underestimate a good Bingo game… or Jeopardy! There are so many free online Bingo card generators. fun ways teach grammar
To practice parts of speech, just come up with sentences for the caller, and have a specific word highlighted so the caller knows which word to have the students identify.
For example:
The dog chased the squirrel at the park. – What part of speech is the word “at” in this sentence?
You can always write the sentences and/or questions in a table, print them, and then display each individual sentence/question card under a document camera so your students can see.
Or just show them your table! Then your students will mark off the part of speech they have on their Bingo card.
There are also tons of free Jeopardy game generators out there to plug your questions and answers into. This is a great way to have students review in small groups!
Never be afraid to supplement your lesson with a read aloud that has to do with what you’re teaching. You’d be surprised at how many children’s stories there are out there about contractions, parts of speech, abbreviations, literally any grammar topic!
They’re a fun way to introduce your lesson and give your students examples.
Some of my favorite grammar read-alouds include (the following are Amazon Affiliate links):
Think about the games that you like to play, and see how you can incorporate grammar into them.
It can really be that simple to find fun ways to teach grammar! 🙂
Hey there, I’m Kelly! I I love helping teachers save time with technology and resources so they have more hours in the day to spend with family and friends. Take a look around to find new ideas that you can implement in your classroom today!
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