Homeschool Grammar Games (by date, oldest first)

Vocabulary for Grades 7-10

Improves Vocabulary, Reading, Writing

10 Higher level words

Connotation, Denotation, Antonyms, Synonyms, Parts of Speech

Hands on and Interactive

Designed to improve student vocabulary, reading, writing and oral communication.

Includes Unit One Vocabulary

4 Memory Games

Class set of Bingo with matching definitions (30 student cards)

Designed to improve student vocabulary, reading, writing and oral communication.

Includes Unit One Vocabulary

4 Memory Games

Class set of Bingo with matching definitions (30 student cards)

Would You Rather Game - Verbs Parts of Speech Grammar Activity: Engage your students with this exciting "Would You Rather" game focused on verbs! Perfect for elementary classrooms, this interactive activity helps students practice and reinforce their understanding of action verbs in a fun and engaging way. Ideal for ESL learners, special education, and speech therapy, this game encourages language development and grammar skills through creative and imaginative questions.

What do you get?

• 15 would you rather slides with verbs underlined
• directions slide
• editable directions slide
• editable would you rather template

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Do your students need some extra engagement during the weeks leading up to Christmas? These no-prep mad libs are perfect for some fun Christmas entertainment! Students will work as partners or alone to fill in these funny Christmas stories. This activity is sure to bring some laughter to the classroom while allowing students to practice important grammar skills!

What's Included:

2 funny Christmas themed Mad-libs grammar pages

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Need a fun way to practice adjectives in an engaging way? Do you need a no-prep activity to do with your students that will get them moving, having fun, and building your classroom community all at once? This adjective scavenger hunt is a great way to review adjectives and grammar!

How to play:

• Scavenger hunt google slides: Show students the google slide with the adjective. Students will move around their classroom or homes to find items that match the description. Students will come back and show what they found!
• PDF printable version: Students will go on an adjective hunt around their classroom/home. Students will record their answers on the worksheet. There is space for students to write and/or draw their findings.
• Digital worksheet version: Students will go on an adjective hunt around their classroom/home. Students will record their answers on the digital copy of the worksheet. There are 20 editable text boxes for students to type their answers in.

What's included?

• 20 adjective scavenger hunt slides
• PDF printable worksheet version
• Digital worksheet version

Ways to use this product:

• Literacy centers
• Morning work
• Homework
• Reading small groups

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Working on parts of speech? Students struggling with basic nouns and identifying what a basic noun is? This unit includes lessons on identifying nouns, noun activities and worksheets! Introduce the parts of speech to your students by teaching them all about identifying nouns (person, place, thing, animal, or idea) with this comprehensive and complete teaching unit! This print unit on naming nouns includes an editable editable Power point presentation for direct instruction that is 16 slides long.

Help your students build their understanding of basic English skills with this nouns unit. This nouns unit was designed for third and fourth grade students, and you will love helping students learn all about nouns.

There is also a PDF document that include sample pacing charts, lesson plans that include links to YouTube videos I've used with my students, whole group and small group games, a mini poster and student reference guide, 18 different worksheets for practice at different levels, task cards, I Have Who Has, exit tickets, a quiz, a post test, and all answer keys. You'll have nothing to do but print, possibly laminate, and teach!

Here's what you'll get:

• A 16 slide, editable teaching presentation (PowerPoint)

• A nouns mini poster and student reference sheet

• 5 days of lesson plans with video ideas and anchor chart ideas

• Example pacing charts

• 18 different nouns worksheets in pdf format

• Task cards

• noun sort games

• I Have Who Has game

• Board games to print and use with task cards

• A nouns unit review quiz and unit test

• Answer keys

Your students will love how their new understanding of nouns helps them with their grammar and writing work! After completing this unit, students will have a new understanding of nouns, which will help students improve their confidence and writing and help them delve further into different types of nouns in upcoming units.

Prep is quick and easy... Just print the student pages, gather the materials listed, check out the video links (downloading at home if Youtube is blocked) and you're ready for a fun and engaging class!

This is a zip file. You will need to extract the pdf and the powerpoint files that are included in this unit.

Working on parts of speech? Students struggling with basic nouns and identifying what a basic noun is? This unit includes lessons on identifying nouns, noun activities and worksheets! Introduce the parts of speech to your students by teaching them all about identifying nouns (person, place, thing, animal, or idea) with this comprehensive and complete teaching unit! This print unit on naming nouns includes an editable editable Power point presentation for direct instruction that is 16 slides long.

Help your students build their understanding of basic English skills with this nouns unit. This nouns unit was designed for third and fourth grade students, and you will love helping students learn all about nouns.

There is also a PDF document that include sample pacing charts, lesson plans that include links to YouTube videos I've used with my students, whole group and small group games, a mini poster and student reference guide, 18 different worksheets for practice at different levels, task cards, I Have Who Has, exit tickets, a quiz, a post test, and all answer keys. You'll have nothing to do but print, possibly laminate, and teach!

Here's what you'll get:

• A 16 slide, editable teaching presentation (PowerPoint)

• A nouns mini poster and student reference sheet

• 5 days of lesson plans with video ideas and anchor chart ideas

• Example pacing charts

• 18 different nouns worksheets in pdf format

• Task cards

• noun sort games

• I Have Who Has game

• Board games to print and use with task cards

• A nouns unit review quiz and unit test

• Answer keys

Your students will love how their new understanding of nouns helps them with their grammar and writing work! After completing this unit, students will have a new understanding of nouns, which will help students improve their confidence and writing and help them delve further into different types of nouns in upcoming units.

Prep is quick and easy... Just print the student pages, gather the materials listed, check out the video links (downloading at home if Youtube is blocked) and you're ready for a fun and engaging class!

This is a zip file. You will need to extract the pdf and the powerpoint files that are included in this unit.

Players: 2-4

Materials:

+ Cut out and laminated pumpkins

+ Black and White Pumpkins

+ Color Pumpkins

+ Blank Pumpkins to create your own compound words

Directions:

Place pumpkins face down. Students will pick two

pumpkins and decide whether or not they make a

compound word together. If the words make a

compound word the student gets to keep those those pumpkins. If the words do not make a compound word the student flips them back over. Then the next player takes a turn. The student with the most pumpkin pairs wins.

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Players: 2-4

Materials:

• Cut out and laminate pumpkins

Directions:

Place pumpkins in a pile. Students will pick two pumpkins and decide whether or not they are an uppercase and lowercase letter match (ex. A matches a). If the letters make a match the student takes those pumpkins and puts them in their pile. If the letters do not make a match the places them back into the pile. Then the next student takes a turn. The student with the most pumpkin pairs wins.

Includes:

+ Color Pumpkin Matching

+ Black and White Pumpkin Matching

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Introducing Super Star Synonyms – the ultimate Synonym and Antonym game that brings fun to literacy centres! Perfect for Years 3-6, this exciting game transports students onto the red carpet as they learn synonyms and antonyms in an engaging and interactive way. Up level those literacy centres!

As students move along the game board, they’ll land on Hollywood stars, pick up star cards with words, and record their synonyms on the included recording sheet. For an added challenge, they can also write down antonyms to further expand their vocabulary skills. That's right, working in synonyms AND antonyms! The goal is to reach the end of the board while mastering key vocabulary concepts!

Whether you're using it in the classroom or for small group activities, Super Star Synonyms is a fantastic resource for reinforcing vocabulary in your literacy centres. This game not only builds synonym and antonym knowledge but also encourages collaborative learning in a fun, Hollywood-inspired setting.

Key Features:

• Hollywood theme with stars, red carpet, and movie-related words
• Includes recording sheets for synonyms and antonyms
• Perfect for Years 3-6 literacy centres
• Fun and engaging way to practice vocabulary skills

Add some Hollywood glamour to your literacy centres with Super Star Synonyms and watch your students shine as vocabulary superstars!

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Do you want to make reviewing grammar FUN and engaging? Do your students struggle with learning parts of speech? Then download this Parts of Speech Activity! Your students will be motivated to play this team-building game as they review nouns, proper nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, and more! Well suited for the Language Arts or ELL classroom, your students will be having so much fun they will forget they are learning!

This engaging vocabulary-building activity involves teamwork and brainstorming skills to see which team can come up with the most answers to each prompt. Students will brainstorm nouns, proper nouns, verbs, pronouns, and other parts of speech all while trying to beat the clock. This activity can be played in small and large groups, as individuals or teams. The best part? Kids will want to play the game over and over. Great for vocabulary building, memory, brainstorming, and creativity, this game can be played for 5 minutes or an hour

➟Grammar Topics Covered:

Nouns, Proper Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adverbs, Adjectives, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Articles, Interjections, etc.

➟Examples:

• Name a preposition that starts with the letter "B".
• Name an adjective that starts with the letter "C".

➟What you will receive:

Two versions of the game and instructions.

• Version #1: Each slide contains the prompt as well as a definition of the part of speech (50 slides)
• Version #2: Same as Version #1, but without the part of speech definition.
• Virtual timer on each slide! (50 slides)

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Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to practice parts of speech? Do you struggle to motivate your students to learn grammar? Then download this Parts of Speech Activity! Well suited for the English Language Arts classroom, these differentiated, no prep grammar games will keep your students motivated to learn. Your students will be having so much fun they will forget they are learning!

Played virtually or in class, students demonstrate their knowledge of parts of speech including adjectives, nouns, and verbs. This fun game helps build vocabulary as students brainstorm words that start with the various letters of the alphabet. Watch as the students try to be the first to complete a full row or column to win the game!!

This resource comes with 12 gameboards (6 unique boards for printing and the same 6 boards with virtual dice) for hours of fun! To ensure this game can be played repeatedly and to allow for differentiating instruction, you will also receive 5 types of answer sheets.

➟Can be played for 10 minutes or up to an hour!

➟This resource includes the following:

• Instructions for playing
• 12 game boards (6 unique boards and 6 of the same boards with virtual dice)
• 5 types of answer sheets
• Terms of Use

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Do you want to make reviewing grammar FUN and engaging? Do you want your students to be motivated to learn? Then download this no prep Parts of Speech and Irregular Past Tense Verbs Activity BUNDLE! Kids will be engaged and motivated to play these individual or team-building games! Well suited for the Language Arts or ELL classroom, your students will be having so much fun they will forget they are learning!

These are virtual activities that can be used for literacy centers, partner work, or as a whole class activity. Your students can play these games repeatedly - simply randomize the deck for a new game each time (instructions included).

GAMES IN THIS RESOURCE

Parts of Speech Categories Game

This engaging vocabulary-building activity involves teamwork and brainstorming skills to see which team can come up with the most answers to each prompt. Students will brainstorm nouns, proper nouns, verbs, pronouns, and other parts of speech all while trying to beat the clock. This activity can be played in small and large groups, as individuals or teams. The best part? Kids will want to play the game over and over. Great for vocabulary building, memory, brainstorming, and creativity, this game can be played for 5 minutes or an hour

➟Grammar Topics Covered:

Nouns, Proper Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adverbs, Adjectives, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Articles, Interjections, etc.

➟Examples:

• Name a preposition that starts with the letter "B".
• Name an adjective that starts with the letter "C".

KaBOOM! Irregular Verbs Games (27 different irregular verbs)

This no prep, digital grammar game is a fun and engaging way for your students to practice irregular plural nouns. Played in teams or individually, students are prompted to provide the irregular plural form of various nouns. But Watch Out! Don't get the KaBoom! slide! Your students will be begging to play this engaging game. Use this grammar activity for literacy centers, partner work, or as a whole class activity. Your students can play this game repeatedly - simply randomize the deck for a new game each time (instructions included).

➟Included:

• Instructions with variations
• 35+ Irregular nouns with corresponding answers
• Two versions of the Categories game
• Version #1: Each slide contains the prompt as well as a definition of the part of speech (50 slides)
• Version #2: Same as Version #1, but without the part of speech definition.
• Virtual timer on each slide! (50 slides)
• Terms of Use

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Truth or Dare...the Classroom Party Game You Didn't Know You Needed!

50 task cards focused on the use of present simple, present continuous and stative verbs. Each task card contains a picture prompt. Use them to play Kaboom Game or Scoot, they are great for Centers, Quiz Games, can be used as Bell Ringers. Low prep, just print out and cut up.

Contains:

• 50 task cards - they double up as Kaboom! sentence cards and Scoot cards
• 10 Kaboom! cards
• 5 answer sheets for Scoot
• instructions
• keys

This product focuses on:

• present simple
• present continuous
• the difference in use between the two tenses
• stative verbs

INSTRUCTIONS:

Kaboom! Game

• print out and cut up the numbered sentence cards and Kaboom! cards, laminate (optional)
• put them in a receptacle of your choice
• decide on how long you want to spend on this activity and set a timer
• pupils take turns pulling out a card and finishing or making a sentence using cues and picture prompts
• if they say it right, they get to keep the card
• if they get it wrong, they put it back
• the next pupil takes a turn
• if they pull out a Kaboom! card, they put all their cards back, feel free to use as many (or as few) Kaboom! card as you wish
• pupil with the most cards at the end wins

Scoot Game

• use the numbered sentence cards, each student gets a recording sheet
• place one card on each student's desk. If you have fewer students than cards, feel free to not use the whole deck.
• plan a route, make sure your students understand which way they are supposed to move
• start the game by having each pupil write the answer to their card on their answer sheet
• when students are finished, call out "SCOOT" and they move to their neighbour's desk where they write the answer to the card on that desk
• call out "SCOOT" again, students move again, continue until students have answered all the cards
• answer sheets can be corrected with the whole group, in pairs or collected for a later correction

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Question Tag Kaboom! Game (also called Zap! or Bam!)

Kaboom is a fun game to review the use of adjectives and adverbs, 90 cards in total. It can be played in small groups or with the whole class. Low prep, just print out and cut up. 2 worksheets as a bonus.

Troublesome sense verbs (look, smell, taste, feel, sound), which are followed by adjectives (unlike in many other languages), are included.

How to play:

• print out and cut up the cards
• put them in a receptacle of your choice
• decide on how long you want to spend on this activity and set a timer
• pupils take turns pulling out a card and reading the sentence
• if they say it right, they get to keep the card
• if they get it wrong, they put it back
• the next pupil takes a turn
• if they pull out a Kaboom! card, they put all their cards back
• pupil with the most cards at the end wins

Contains:

• 75 adjective vs adverb cards
• 15 Kaboom! cards
• 2 worksheets with keys

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A speaking game to practice PAST SIMPLE and PAST CONTINUOUS (progressive) in sentences with WHEN and WHILE. It contains 60 speaking cards and 10 Kaboom cards. A fun way to practice difficult grammar. Low prep, prints great in colour and in grayscale.

How to play Kaboom!:

• print out and cut up the cards
• put them in a receptacle of your choice
• decide on how long you want to spend on this activity and set a timer
• pupils take turns pulling out a card and forming the sentence
• students form sentences using the provided subjects, verbs and picture prompts
• students may need to add prepositions, articles or pronouns to form a grammatically correct sentence
• WHEN should be followed by a clause in PAST SIMPLE
• WHILE should be followed by a clause in PAST CONTINUOUS (verbs that do not form past continuous, such as want, know, need, understand etc., have been omitted)
• if they say it right, they get to keep the card
• if they get it wrong, they put it back
• the next pupil takes a turn
• if they pull out a Kaboom! card, they put all their cards back
• pupil with the most cards when the time is up wins

It contains 70 cards:

♥ 30 speaking cards with WHEN

♥ 30 speaking cards with WHILE

♥ 10 Kaboom! cards

♥ key

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Question Tag Kaboom! Game (also called Zap! or Bam!)

50 unique task cards focused on teaching if-clauses and the use of the SECOND CONDITIONAL. Each task card contains a picture prompt. Use them to play Kaboom Game or Scoot, they are great for Centers, Quiz Games, can be used as Bell Ringers. Low prep, just print out and cut up.

Sentence domino as a BONUS - ideal for fast finishers!

Contains:

• 50 unique task cards - they double up as Kaboom! sentence cards and Scoot cards
• 10 Kaboom! cards
• 5 answer sheets for Scoot
• 12 sentence domino cards
• instructions
• keys

INSTRUCTIONS:

Kaboom! Game

• print out and cut up the numbered sentence cards and Kaboom! cards, laminate (optional)
• put them in a receptacle of your choice
• decide on how long you want to spend on this activity and set a timer
• pupils take turns pulling out a card and finishing or making a sentence using cues and picture prompts
• if they say it right, they get to keep the card
• if they get it wrong, they put it back
• the next pupil takes a turn
• if they pull out a Kaboom! card, they put all their cards back, feel free to use as many (or as few) Kaboom! card as you wish
• pupil with the most cards at the end wins

Scoot Game

• use the numbered sentence cards, each student gets a recording sheet
• place one card on each student's desk. If you have fewer students than cards, feel free to not use the whole deck.
• plan a route, make sure your students understand which way they are supposed to move
• start the game by having each pupil write the answer to their card on their answer sheet
• when students are finished, call out "SCOOT" and they move to their neighbour's desk where they write the answer to the card on that desk
• call out "SCOOT" again, students move again, continue until students have answered all the cards
• answer sheets can be corrected with the whole group, in pairs or collected for a later correction

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50 task cards focused on the use of past simple and present perfect. Each task card contains a picture prompt. Use them to play Kaboom Game or Scoot, they are great for Centers, Quiz Games, can be used as Bell Ringers. Low prep, just print out and cut up.

Contains:

• 50 task cards - they double up as Kaboom! sentence cards and Scoot cards
• 10 Kaboom! cards
• 5 answer sheets for Scoot
• instructions
• keys

This product focuses on:

• past simple
• present perfect
• the difference in use between the two tenses

INSTRUCTIONS:

Kaboom! Game

• print out and cut up the numbered sentence cards and Kaboom! cards, laminate (optional)
• put them in a receptacle of your choice
• decide on how long you want to spend on this activity and set a timer
• pupils take turns pulling out a card and finishing or making a sentence using cues and picture prompts
• if they say it right, they get to keep the card
• if they get it wrong, they put it back
• the next pupil takes a turn
• if they pull out a Kaboom! card, they put all their cards back, feel free to use as many (or as few) Kaboom! card as you wish
• pupil with the most cards at the end wins

Scoot Game

• use the numbered sentence cards, each student gets a recording sheet
• place one card on each student's desk. If you have fewer students than cards, feel free to not use the whole deck.
• plan a route, make sure your students understand which way they are supposed to move
• start the game by having each pupil write the answer to their card on their answer sheet
• when students are finished, call out "SCOOT" and they move to their neighbor's desk where they write the answer to the card on that desk
• call out "SCOOT" again, students move again, continue until students have answered all the cards
• answer sheets can be corrected with the whole group, in pairs or collected for a later correction

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Grammar Tables | All 12 English Tenses | Handouts

Contains 13 different Tic-Tac-Toe boards and a Connect 3 Sides Game. Printable, no or low prep. Irregular verbs are grouped into sections by their alphabetical order. Even students who have only just started learning irregular verbs can play!

Product contains:

* 13 Tic Tac Toe boards

• 2 boards contain verbs starting with the letters B - G
• 2 boards G - L
• 2 boards L - S
• 2 boards S - W
• 4 small boards covering all the verbs
• 1 big "monster" board covering all the verbs

* Connect 3 Sides Game (check out the preview for detailed instructions)

• game board in 2 different sizes
• 80 colour coded verb cards
• a list of 80 irregular verbs in alphabetical order (colour coded)

List of 80 irregular verbs included in this product:

be, become, begin, bite, break, bring, build, burn, buy, catch, choose, come, cost, cut, dig, do, draw, drink, drive, eat, fall, feel, fight, find, fly, freeze, get, give, go, grow, have, hear, hide, hit, hold, hurt, keep, know, learn, leave, lie, lose, make, mean, meet, pay, put, read, ride, ring, run, say, see, sell, send, set, sing, sink, sit, sleep, smell, speak, spell, spend, stand, steal, stick, sweep, swim, take, teach, tear, tell, think, throw, understand, wake, wear, win, write

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