Sort the Words: Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives

Classify twenty-four words as nouns, verbs or adjectives.
Year groups
Years 2–4 (Key Stages 1–2)
Pages
1
File type
PDF

Updated Apr 22, 2023

Subject
Grammar, English
Resource types
Worksheets
England expectations
Official curriculum expectation · Vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

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About this resource

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 organiser on the worksheet is designed to help students categorise 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 organiser with 3 columns is featured. There are 24 words for students to categorise.

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

This activity is perfect for Year 3 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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In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Classify words as nouns, verbs or adjectives.
  • Explain a word-class choice using a sentence when the isolated word has multiple uses.

Teaching tips

  • Words such as stand can have more than one role; accept a supported classification when the pupil supplies a suitable sentence.

Skills covered

  • Grammatical reasoning — test the role a word plays in a sentence before choosing a category.

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National Curriculum in England

National Curriculum in England expectations

England expectations

  • Official curriculum expectation · Vocabulary, grammar and punctuation — use and understand the grammatical terminology in English appendix 2 in discussing their writing

Core concepts

  • Nouns
  • Verbs
  • Adjectives
  • Parts of speech

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