Parts of Speech Dice Game – Grammar Practice

Product description

From the author

Here is a fun way to help reinforce the parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, articles, and prepositional phrases. They can be a bit dry and boring to learn about, so playing a fun and silly game might be just the activity your students need!

It is a great activity for literacy centres or partner work.

Each student needs a recording sheet, a pencil, and a die.

They roll and fill in the corresponding part of speech. For example, if they roll a 1, they need to write an article. If they roll a 4, they write a verb. They can be as silly and creative as they want to!

Once one row is filled, they should have a silly sentence!

1) Article

2) Adjective

3) Noun

4) Verb

5) Adverb

6) Prepositional Phrase

Ex: The gigantic kangaroo ate sadly on the slide.

Grades to Use With: This is a fun addition to any elementary classroom that is studying parts of speech. It could work in grades 2-5. It could also be used in high school special education classrooms or with English Language Learners.

Standards:

CCSSL.2.1e

Use adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.

CCSSL.3.1a

Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.

CCSSL.4.1

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Identify and produce examples of six grammatical elements (article, adjective, noun, verb, adverb, prepositional phrase) on demand.
Combine individually generated words and phrases into a complete sentence.

Teaching tips

Run as a literacy center or partner activity, since each student needs only a recording sheet, pencil, and die.
Have students read their finished silly sentences aloud once a row is complete to reinforce which part of speech each word represents.
Reuse across the school year as a quick warm-up or transition activity by preparing extra recording sheets or protecting one for dry-erase use.

Skills covered

Part of speech identification — students must know an example of an article, adjective, noun, verb, adverb, or prepositional phrase to fill in the correct die roll.
Sentence construction — students assemble their six independently generated words/phrases into one complete, readable sentence.
Grammar recall under constraint — students generate a specific part of speech on demand, in random order determined by the die, rather than from a pre-set list.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

How does a die roll translate into what a student writes?

Each number 1 through 6 corresponds to one part of speech: 1 is an article, 2 an adjective, 3 a noun, 4 a verb, 5 an adverb, and 6 a prepositional phrase, and students write in an example of whatever part of speech their roll matches.

No reviews yet

Downloaded this resource? Tell other teachers how it went.

Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

L.3.1

Core concepts

Parts of speech
Articles
Prepositional phrases
Sentence construction

Topics

Parts of speech Dice game Word classes Sentence building Literacy center

Explore more

Categories this resource belongs to

ELA: Parts of and Anatomy of Worksheets & Printables Parts of and Anatomy of By Subject Parts Of and Anatomy Of Popular Parts of and Anatomy of

Explore related searches

More to explore