Grammar Games for Kids

• There are many grammar games for kids online to help a kid learn the parts of speech. There are also grammar games that teachers can use in their classroom to reinforce learning and build vocabulary. Following are explanations of a few of these.

Grammar Games for Kids Online

There is a game online called Grammar Gorillas at Fun Brain. It has a beginner level with nouns and verbs, and an advanced level with all the parts of speech. On the page where you play the game is an explanation and examples of a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, interjection, preposition, conjunction and pronoun. It keeps score, and when your answer is wrong, it explains why it is wrong. This is a very good game and should be very helpful to students learning the parts of speech. There are 10 questions in each game.

Another of the grammar games for kids online is Grammar Blast at Eduplace. The game has four levels: Grades 2-5. Each level has at least seven units, with a review after every two. They cover sentences, nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, capitalization, prepositions, pronouns, and punctuation. Each level ends with a “Super Challenge Quiz on All Units”. You get two chances before they give you the right answer and you can end the game at any time.

The next online game is Grammar Practice Park at Harcourt School. It covers grades 3, 4, and 5. Grade 3 has practice on sentences, nouns, pronouns, and tense. Grade 4 has practice on singular and plural, verbs, prepositions, and sentences. Grade 5 covers nouns, subject-verb agreement, sentences, and punctuation.

This website, Teacher.Scholastic.com, has five grammar games. They cover subject-verb agreement, capital letters, punctuation, quotation marks, apostrophes, prefixes, suffixes, and homophones. The games have colorful graphics and are fun to play.

Ellwood.Goleta.K12.Ca has several good games. The games cover synonyms, antonyms, prefixes, suffixes, making sentences, and punctuation. The games have great graphics and different levels.

• In Ball Hog you scoop up the tennis balls to provide the proper synonym or antonym. Word Jungle has you searching the jungle for synonyms.
• In Race to Ramses, you are in an Egyptian pyramid and must match prefixes and suffixes to make words.
• In Wall of Words you have to build a wall with complete sentences using the proper punctuation.

Grammar Practice Park and Grammar Blast are available on other websites that were previously mentioned and cover basic grammar skills.  

Classroom Grammar Games

This game is called Grandmother’s Cat and is good practice for adjectives. Divide the class into two teams and each team takes turns answering. Tell them they are to use an adjective to describe grandmother’s cat starting with the letter A and going through the alphabet. There needs to be a time limit for each response.

For example, Team 1 says, “Grandmother’s cat is awesome.” Team 2 says, “Grandmother’s cat is black” and so on. If a player can not think of an answer or takes too long, then the other team gets the same letter. Another version has the class divided into small teams and they work together to make a complete list. You may choose to leave out certain letters, which is why the team version is probably better. You could give a small prize or special privilege to the teams who complete the list.

This next game in the grammar games for kids is called Invisible Grammar Guy.  First, you need to draw two stick figures on the board, each with at least ten parts: head, eyes, nose, mouth, body, arms, legs, and a few more if you wish.  Divide the students into two teams. Read the word to the first player and he will say it, spell it, and say it again. It he is correct, he erases one part of the other team’s grammar guy. If the word is spelled wrong, nothing gets erased and you move on to the next team. Keep going until one man is invisible.