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Grammar Activities for Fourth Grade and Fifth Grade. Get your fourth and fifth graders ready for writing essays and bigger projects with grammar activities that are hands-on and introduce clauses, conjunctions, and more.
- Mad Libs. I love using Mad Libs as a whole class warm-up or review activity! These simple books are a great way to have kids practice different parts of speech while making it fun!
- Movement. I am a huge advocate of adding movement wherever I can into my lessons. Kids need movement, it breaks things up, and reinforces learning in a different way.
- Whole-Class Games. I also love doing whole-class games for some of the parts of speech and it creates instant engagement. For example, you could choose a part of speech and have the class play Hot Potato.
- Personalized or Funny Examples. I always try to get to know my students and make real connections with them. One side benefit to this is that you can use some of that information when teaching, whether it’s in math for word problems, or for grammar examples!
Fun Ways to Teach Grammar: Get Active. Students need to move. Get your students moving with grammar lessons by playing games like Scoot with grammar task cards. Find fun movement games and ideas in my previous grammar blog post such as Fly Swat and Around the World.
- Build grammar practice into fun writing assignments. My most recent assignment for students to practice comma usage was to choose between writing a letter using one of the following points of view: an old curmudgeon complaining to city hall about a completely trivial issue, a teenager writing to their* celebrity crush, or an alien writing back to their alien friends after visiting Earth.
- Make funny examples or practice sentences. I think it is totally worth the effort to write your own practice sentences for grammar. Sometimes if I’m on top of things enough to be working on lesson plans in advance, I call a rotating list of students over to my computer to ask if they’re willing to be featured in my practice worksheets and to check if what I’ve written about them is OK.
- Make a bulletin board or anchor chart called “Why Grammar Matters” and have students contribute. They can bring funny or surprising pictures of misspellings, omitted punctuation or other grammar errors from real life or the internet.
- Have “story time” with this book one day. You would be shocked at how psyched secondary kids would be to sit cross-legged on the floor to listen to a story.
- Pick a Sentence/End a Sentence. In this activity, students will receive a plastic bag with color-coded cards. They will then choose a subject, object, verb, and punctuation mark to make a sentence.
- Punctuation Scavenger Hunt. Choose two of your class’s favorite read-alouds. Include a fiction and a nonfiction title. Read through the first few pages of one of the stories and say aloud the punctuation mark that ends each sentence.
- LEGO Sentences. ADVERTISEMENT. Use masking tape and a black marker to write different words to affix to LEGO bricks. Color-code your words—e.g., yellow for nouns, blue for verbs, green for articles, and red for adjectives.
- Parts of Speech Hopscotch. Outside on the playground or sidewalk, draw a typical hopscotch frame. Instead of numbering the squares, label them noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, conjunction, preposition, prepositional phrase, and interjection.
Oct 18, 2020 · 1: Spot the Mistake. 2: Play Grammar Games. 3: Silly Sentences. 4: Sing Grammar Songs. 5: Get Artistic. 6: Hands-On Grammar Lessons. 7: Use Roleplay and Props. 8: Online Grammar Games. 9: Get Active in the Classroom. 10: Create Characters. In Summary. 1: Spot the Mistake. Children love catching adults getting things wrong!
Feb 7, 2022 · Blog. 20 Grammar Activities to Use in the Classroom. Written by Alison Smith. Updated 2 years ago | 5 min read. Teaching grammar to your students doesn’t have to be a tedious task. Let’s face it head-on and make it fun with 20 grammar activities to use in the classroom.
