Classifying Nouns, Verbs, or Adjectives Worksheet

Students sort words into noun, verb and adjective columns. Use the worksheet to review parts of speech and discuss how a word’s job can change in a sentence.
Grades
Grades 1–3
Pages
1
File type
PDF
Preparation
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Updated Apr 22, 2023

Subject
ELA
Topic
Verbs Worksheet, Nouns Worksheet
Resource types
Worksheets
Preparation
Print ready
Standards
L.1.1

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From the author

If you want to give students extra practice with their grammar skills, I have just the resource for you. The more exposure students have with nouns, verbs, and adjectives, the sharper their skills will be.

This Classifying Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives Worksheet is a great way for students to practice differentiating between these 3 grammar skills. The graphic organizer on the worksheet is designed to help students categorize the nouns, verbs, and adjectives. When you have completed instruction on each of these grammar skills, your students will be more than ready to complete this worksheet!

What You Get:

This is a 1-page printable PDF. A single graphic organizer with 3 columns is featured. There are 24 words for students to categorize.

How to Implement This Classifying Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives Worksheet:

This activity is perfect for 2nd grade language arts students who are reviewing nouns, verbs, and adjectives. This worksheet will help them practice and improve their skills.

Here are a few ways you may choose to implement this Classifying Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives Worksheet:

-- You can print off enough copies for the entire classroom. Students can complete this worksheet with you as a whole group. This will be ideal if one or all of these grammar skills are new for students.

-- You can print off copies to place in clear dry erase sleeves. In doing this, the worksheet can be used repeatedly. Students can use dry erase markers to sort the words into the correct categories.

-- This worksheet works as homework or an informal assessment.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Classify a word as a noun, verb, or adjective based on its form and meaning

  • Distinguish between the three parts of speech when sorting an unordered word list

Teaching tips

  • Model sorting a few tricky words as a class first (this list includes words like "stand," which can function as more than one part of speech), since the page gives no context sentences to disambiguate them.

  • Have students sort the words into physical piles or use color-coding before writing, since the organizer asks for 24 separate classification decisions on one page.

Skills covered

  • Parts-of-speech identification — students sort 24 individual words into noun, verb, or adjective columns.

  • Grammar categorization — students apply the definitions of noun, verb, and adjective without sentence context to guide them.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

  • L.1.1

Core concepts

  • Nouns

  • Verbs

  • Adjectives

  • Parts of speech

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