Grammar is so sadly neglected these days. Put a smile back on Grammar’s face by sharing its long-lost rules and regulations with a new crop of grammar students. Help students learn their punctuation, their parts of speech, and how sentences are built. Then watch your writing scores grow.

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Grammar Flash Cards

Verbs are action words, and students need to know how to match them up with a subject to make proper sentences. They also need to know a variety of them, so every sentence isn’t about eating, sleeping, talking, or running. Get them practicing with a quick worksheet from have fun teaching. Then have them brainstorm more verbs they know with their partners. You could even start a verb wall in your classroom!

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Verb Worksheets

Enhance writing power in time for standardized testing with synonyms and their EVIL cousin, antonyms. Remind students that it’s fun to know as many words as possible for: good, pretty, hot, cold, bad, and all these other common words that we overuse. Do it with a word graveyard! Make little paper tombstones and write the dead word on it. Retire more and more words as weeks go on, so students have to think of newer ones! Practice with this worksheet on synonyms.

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Synonym Worksheets

Word ending suffixes for verbs can be tricky business. Want a quick check for understanding for -ed and -ing verbs? Check this out and give it to your first or second graders. It could be used as a pre- and post-exam. I can certainly see this being a part of a larger verb unit. Enhance your students’ word power!

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Suffix Worksheets

With all the texting and emailing going on these days, punctuation seems to be a thing of the past. Your students probably know LOL and TTYL, but do they know periods, commas, and quotation marks? Help them level up their texting and writing a bit with some practice on this punctuation worksheet. And while you’re at it, look up Romeo & Juliet in cell phone text language. It’s pretty funny. Your 4th and 5th graders or middle schoolers will love it.

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Punctuation Worksheets

He, She, It… sounds easy, right? Think again. Without reviewing these and practicing, it can be a grammatical nightmare trying to teach students not only to use the right pronouns, but also matching them with the proper verbs. I think we’ve all heard enough of this kind of talk: “We was at the store…” Fix that stuff right now with this helpful worksheet!

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Pronoun Worksheets

Need a way to remind your students of those rules for -s, -es, and -ies? Throw this sheet down on their desk come Monday morning, and then flip it over for a 3-column chart. As a team exercise, they can think of more nouns that are pluralized with -s, -es, and -ies. Knock out your cooperative learning, morning work, and part of your language in one shot!

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Plural Noun Worksheets

So many parts of speech, so little time, right? Why not make a binder or portfolio with different sections for each part of speech? Populate the sections with writing samples, lists of favorite words of that sort, and free parts of speech worksheets from have fun teaching!

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Parts of Speech Worksheets

Need some help reminding students how to pluralize nouns? Are all those tricks for words that end with x’s or ch’s fooling your students? Snag this worksheet or others from the nouns worksheets sectionon have fun teaching. Not only are they free, but they make good sponge activities for those students who finish early, absorbing all your lessons so much faster than everyone else.

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Noun Worksheets

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Grammar Worksheets