There are eight parts of speech: nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections, and articles. Learning to identify each part of speech is essential to mastering how to write standard English. If you are looking for worksheets and activities to help your students better understand parts of speech, you’ve come to the right place. Check out these parts of speech activities:

Parts of Speech Projects

Parts of Speech Newspaper – Create a newspaper with eight articles featuring stories about the parts of speech. The eight stories should explain what each part of speech does and provide examples. Paper should also have pictures.
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Parts of Speech Tests

Parts of Speech and Sentence Type Test: Looking for a test on Parts of Speech? This one has 32 multiple-choice questions on the parts of speech. It also has 5 questions about sentence types. This is a great way to assess an early grammar unit.
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Nouns Test – This noun test has 35 multiple-choice questions covering common and proper nouns; singular, plural, and possessive nouns; and concrete and abstract nouns. It is available at three different reading levels, so it’s accessible to a most students. And it’s themed around superheroes, which makes it awesome.
Reading Level 01 – Grades 3-5
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Reading Level 02 – Grades 6-8
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Reading Level 03 – Grades 9+
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Verbs Test | With Bugs – Here’s an awesome verb test to find out what your students really know about verbs. It has 33 multiple-choice questions. Some of these questions ask students to identify verb phrases. Others ask students to conjugate verbs correctly based on tense and aspect. The best part of all is that this verb test is themed around bugs, which makes it really fun for students, or at least as fun as a test about verbs can be. This test was written at three different reading levels for maximum accessibility. Yet, the answer key is the same for each test to simplify differentiation. You’re going to love it.
Reading Level 1 – Grades 3-5
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Reading Level 2 – Grades 6-8
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Reading Level 3 – Grades 9+
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Pronouns Test | With Cats – This pronoun test has 30 awesome multiple-choice questions. Students read sentences and answer questions that require them to choose the correct pronoun, identify antecedents, and determine pronoun case. Perhaps the best part about this test is that it is themed around a mischievous group of cats, so it’s a lot of fun. It is also available at three reading levels so everyone can take part in the fun.
Reading Level 1 | Grades 3-5
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Reading Level 2 | Grades 6-8
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Reading Level 3 | Grades 9+
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Parts of Speech Online Activities

Noun Types Online Practice Activity – Here are twenty online practice problems to review types of nouns.  
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Noun Types Online Practice Activity 2 – Here are twenty more problems to give your students practice identifying noun types. Save paper. Use Ereading Worksheets.
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Parts of Speech App – Looking for online practice with parts of speech? How about video lessons and user profiles? You might like this FREE parts of speech app. I spent WAY too long building it. I hope that you like it.
Parts of Speech App

Parts of Speech Video Game: This is a fun, browser based video game where students play the role of a ninja. The object is to get to the end of each level, while dispatching enemies and acquiring secret powers along the way. Students learn and review parts of speech and sentence structure concepts in a way that rewards them for mastery with in game benefits. I hope that students have fun while learning the parts of speech with this game.
Parts of Speech Game

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