2.2. Activities to make learning grammar easier Noun Scavenger Hunt After your students have learned about nouns, set a timer, then challenge them to a classroom scavenger hunt for people, places, and things that start with each letter of the alphabet!
You can refer students to letters posted in your room or make things easy with an ABC template printed out for them to print each word and practice their handwriting.
Play Parts of Speech Uno A fun twist on Uno, this parts of speech game challenges your students to remember which words are nouns, verbs, adjectives, and so on! There’s also a version that has each labeled for classes that are still learning the difference.
35 Sorting Adjective, Verbs, and Nouns We’re always happy to find ways to incorporate interactive displays in the classroom, and we love the simplicity of this hands-on grammar activity. There are lots of ways that you could use this idea. Try one or two of these:
✓ Sort the popsicle/craft sticks as a class.
✓ Ask a small group to sort the craft sticks as a literacy rotation activity.
✓ Encourage the students to add craft sticks to the cups when they come across an interesting verb, adjective, or noun during speaking, listening, and writing.
✓ Extend knowledge by adding a cup and differentiating between common and proper nouns.
Play Capitalization Games
Learning to use capital letters is a crucial grammar skill for younger
students. Splat, a capitalization game created by Lauren Piper, a teacher in Illinois and a Teach Starter collaborator, is a perfect writing small group or writing center activity to get kids thinking about those uppercase and lowercase letters and where they go!
To play, students draw a card and read the sentence to decide which word needs a capital letter. But be careful you don’t get a Splat card!
You can also try playing Splat as a way to teach types of sentences — interrogative, declarative, exclamatory, and imperative.
