Curated OER
Truth or Hogwash
Explore the history of domesticated pigs and their important byproducts. After discussing the use of pigs, class members create game boards describing the animals. While playing the game, they determine if the answers are true or...
Google
Google for Education: Mystery Word X
An exercise for students to analyze the classification of nouns and verbs. They begin by considering nouns as a person, place, or thing, and verbs as action words. Students then study more specific uses of nouns and verbs and rethink...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Parts of Speech Game: Word Invasion
Brush up your ability to identify parts of speech with an interactive game. Select at least two parts of speech and the speed you think you can handle for the game and click your mouse on the jellyfish words that match the part of speech...
BBC
Bbc: Skillwise: English: Grammar: Word Types Quiz: Advanced Level
Assess knowledge and application of the parts of speech. Identify the part of speech within a sentence or on its own. Three levels of difficulty and immediate feedback are provided. Certificates available. Quiz can be downloaded in PDF...
BBC
Bbc: Skillwise: English: Grammar: Word Types: Parts of Speech Quiz: Basic Level
Quiz that assesses fundamental knowledge and application of the basic parts of speech. Identify the part of speech within a sentence or standing on its own. Three levels of difficulty and immediate feedback are provided. Certificates...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Verb Game for Kids
An interactive verb generator for students to use while gathering ideas for their writing.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Showing With Participial Phrases
Students will learn how to combine sentences by utilizing participial phrases
ACT360 Media
Writing Den: Parts of a Sentence
Explore the world of "Parts of a Sentence." Find out about adjectives, nouns, prepositions and more. This site features an overview of each part of speech.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: What Are Adverbs?
This short article briefly explains the purpose of adverbs, how to identify them, and provides an example.
Quia
Quia: Grammar Review Challenge
Play a Jeopardy-like game alone or with a friend by answering questions in five categories including Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Subjects and Predicates, and Possessive Nouns and Pronouns.
Other
Kim's Korner: Color Coded Parts of Speech Kinesthetic Lesson Plan
Students can brush up on their knowledge of the parts of speech when they do this lesson. This site contains a kinesthetic lesson plan that caters to children with all types of learning styles.
University of Victoria (Canada)
University of Victoria: Regular Plurals of Nouns
Learn how to make nouns plural. This concise lesson explains the process and contains a chart with examples. Practice your new skill with exercises at the bottom of the page.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Adjective Game for Kids
Students use this writing prompt generator to choose a writing topic and three adjectives to use in an original piece.
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Grammar Blast: Adjectives and Adverbs
A quiz to assess student understanding of adjectives and adverbs is included on this site.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Parts of Speech Activities
In this learning module, students will learn more about the eight parts of speech. Lesson plans and reinforcement worksheets are provided. This module is designed to support Tier I, Tier II, and Tier III students in various grade bands.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: What Are Adjectives?
This blog article explains what adjectives are, what they can do in sentences, and provides examples of each.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: What Do Adjectives Modify?
This blog article explains that adjectives modify nouns and provides examples. It also discusses predicate adjectives.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Abstract Nouns
This page explains that an abstract noun is not identifiable by any of the five senses and provides examples.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Nouns
This page focuses on nouns including definitions, types of nouns (person, place, thing/idea), common vs proper nouns, types of common nouns (concrete, abstract, collective), nouns as subjects, nouns as objects, nouns as subjective and...
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Adjective and Verb Placement
This page focuses on the relationships between adjectives and verbs including predicate adjectives, linking verbs, and participles --verbs used as adjectives such as the smiling baby.
Scholastic
Scholastic: When Grammar Meets Art
Grammar lessons that involve kinesthetic games and art projects. Here is a lesson plan for teaching types of nouns through a partner exploration and a whole class art project. Let me show you just how fun grammar can be!
University of Victoria (Canada)
Study Zone: Parts of Speech
Nice brief visual summary of the parts of speech - clear and concise - followed by an interactive practice quiz to reinforce concepts - great for ELL - has links to more in-depth explanations.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Nouns
Defines the many rules that govern the use of nouns, including their use as subjects, and the requirements for agreement; predicate nominatives; four types of objects (direct object, indirect object, object of preposition, and object of...
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Blog: Adverbs: What Do Adverbs Modify?
This blog focuses on adverbs, including what they modify, how to find them in sentences, degrees of adverbs, and examples of each.