A noun, adjective, and verb activity for 1st to 3rd grade: sort 24 popcorn word cards into three buckets, then practice in sentences. Answer key included for easy checking.
This describing words activity has 1st and 2nd Grade students match 8 picture cards with 16 adjective cards, with a recording sheet, practice page and answer key included.
This describing nouns adjective activity has 1st and 2nd Grade partners describe picture cards with adjectives and play a guessing game. Answer key included.
This noun bingo activity has 24 picture cards and 4 boards for Preschool to 2nd Grade, plus a practice page with an answer key included, so kids learn nouns while they play.
This proofreading capitalization and punctuation activity gives 2nd to 5th grade students 16 self-checking detective cards for fixing sentences. A practice page and answer key are included.
Using Capitalize It Activity, students sort the topic cards into Do Capitalize and Don't Capitalize categories.
Using this Using Clues to Describe Activity, students describe familiar people, places, things, and events.
This complete sentences with subject and predicate activity has 1st to 3rd grade students match picture subject cards to predicate cards, then practice on a worksheet. Answer key included.
This common and proper nouns activity has 1st to 3rd grade students sort snowflake word cards on a winter mat, with a practice page and answer key included for easy checking.
This describe it figurative language activity for 1st and 2nd Grade has kids match adjective word cards to the pictures they describe. Answer key included.
This double dip homographs activity for 2nd to 4th Grade has kids match cone words to two scoop sentences, one for each meaning. Answer key included for quick checking.
This nutty nouns activity lets Kindergarten to 2nd grade students sort picture cards into person, place and thing, then practice with a word-box sort. Answer key included.
This writing the date activity lets 1st to 3rd graders build dates with month, day, year, and comma cards, then write them correctly. Answer key included for easy checking.
This slap shot hockey telling sentences activity for 1st and 2nd Grade has kids race pucks on a rink board by sorting telling and asking sentences. Answer key included.
This get the scoop on confusing words activity has 2nd to 4th grade students match ice cream cone sentences to the homophone scoop that completes them. Answer key included.
Describing Words Activity, Adjectives Activity, Parts of Speech, Descriptive Words
This frog and a log position words activity helps K-2nd Grade children match picture cards to on, under, above, next to, in front of and behind, with practice and an answer key included.
Using About Me Mobile Activity, students can create a mobile to introduce themselves and share important information about themselves at the beginning of a new school year!
This whose is it apostrophe activity has 1st to 3rd Grade students match animals with the things they own and write each pair with an apostrophe, with a recording sheet, practice page and answer key included.
Using Homophoneopoly Homophones Activity, students play Homophone-opoly to practice listening for and identifying pairs of homophones.
Nouns, verbs and a capital time
Second grade grammar gives kids names for the parts of their sentences. They find nouns and verbs, add adjectives and adverbs to describe things, and learn irregular plurals like mouse → mice and irregular past-tense verbs like sit → sat. They capitalize holidays, product names and places, and use apostrophes in contractions and possessives. Most of all, they practice editing: reading a sentence, spotting what's wrong and fixing it. The click moment comes when a child corrects "I seen it" to "I saw it" in their own writing.
Grammar sticks when kids use it in real sentences. These moves keep it practical and playful.
Project a sentence with three mistakes and edit it together, thinking aloud: "Hmm, does a name need a capital?" Then kids edit their own sentence with a partner. Watching you catch mistakes shows them what good editors look for.
Why it works: handing over the work step by step, from teacher to student, is one of the most widely used teaching frameworks (Pearson and Gallagher, 1983).
Try it withEditing Sentences WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Give kids picture cards and have them build the plural with letter tiles: cat to cats, box to boxes, mouse to mice. Sorting the cards into "add s," "add es" and "brand new word" piles makes the rules visible.
Why it works: going from real objects to pictures to symbols is a core recommendation of the U.S. Department of Education's elementary math guide.
Try it withCreating Plural Nouns WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Flash an action verb card and kids act it out, then use it in a sentence in the past tense. "Jump" becomes "I jumped." It's quick retrieval practice that gets wiggles out at the same time.
Why it works: a big review of study methods ranked quick self-quizzing among the most powerful ways to remember (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withAction Verbs Flash CardsFlash CardsOpen it →Grammar can be silly and fun. These ideas keep our second graders giggling.
WorksheetsKids add describing words to a puppy story and then read the fanciest version aloud.
Open Adjectives Puppy Story Worksheet →
WorksheetsIs it a person, place or thing? Kids sort nouns into groups and add one of their own to each.
Open Sorting Nouns Worksheet →
WorksheetsKids grab a red pen and fix punctuation mistakes like a real teacher. They love being the one who grades!
Open Correcting Punctuation Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Noun, Adjective, and Verb Activity, Describing Words Activity and Describing Nouns Adjective Activity.
Second graders learn nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, irregular plural nouns and irregular past-tense verbs. They also practice capitalization, end punctuation, and apostrophes in contractions and possessives.
Nouns are people, places and things you can point to. Verbs are actions you can do. Have your child point to nouns around the room and act out verbs. Then find both in a favorite book.
They're nouns that don't just add -s. Examples are child to children, foot to feet, tooth to teeth and mouse to mice. Second graders practice the most common ones.
Use a simple checklist: capital at the start, end mark, spaces between words, and does it make sense? Have your child read their writing aloud, which helps them hear mistakes.
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