Hands-On Grammar Games with Language Arts Posters
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Use colorful posters to transform grammar lessons into fun, hands-on games. Great for quick reference and review, these posters can be used for all ages, and as your children progress in their skills. Here are some creative ways to incorporate the posters into your home learning, or in a group setting like a homeschool co-op.
- Use the posters as prompts for creating sentences. Pick a noun, a verb, and an adjective, and have your child weave them into a story.
- Build a Better Sentence: Give your child a simple sentence and ask her to add more parts of speech to make the sentence better.
- Riddle Writing: Choose a word from a poster and have learners come up with riddles for them. Some examples:
Noun riddle: I have four legs, a tail, and I bark. I love to chase squirrels and play fetch. What am I? (Dog)
Verb Riddle: I’m an action you do when you move quickly on your feet. You might do it in a race or to catch a bus. What am I?” (Run)
Grammar Wall BINGO: Use a blank BINGO card. Choose one or several parts of speech and have learners fill in their cards using words from that chart. When they are done, randomly call out words and the first to have BINGO is the winner.
- Parts of Speech Scavenger Hunt: Hide sticky notes around the house with words written on them. Kids must identify the part of speech and place the note under the correct poster. Variation: Give your kid sticky notes with words. Time her as she sticks words onto the correct part of speech poster.
- Act it Out: Have children act out verbs that are shown on the poster. For adjectives, have them describe how they are feeling, using the adjectives. Act out words while others guess which part of speech is being portrayed, referencing the posters for clues.
- Grammar Obstacle Course:
Create stations with each grammar poster. At each station, the learner has to do that grammar-related task. For example,
Noun Sorting: Provide a set of words and have kids sort them into categories (e.g., common nouns, proper nouns). You can set a timer to make it more challenging.
Verb Station: Jump forward while saying a verb in the present tense, then jump back while saying it in the past tense.
Adjective Station: Provide pictures and ask children to describe them using adjectives.
