Interactive Grammar Games for Kids

Interactive grammar games for kids are a great way to improve skills needed for success in school. There are many sites that have excellent games and following are just a few of them.

Interactive Grammar Games for Kids

The most prolific source of interactive grammar games for kids online is Internet 4 Classrooms.com. This site has interactive games, quizzes, and activities for kids from Pre-K to 8th grade. For example, the Pre-K resources have 30 games for alphabet recognition and 18 games for language arts that cover colors, rhymes, and patterns. 8th grade has 14 levels of activities for grammar and 10 for reading, covering such topics as analogies, proofreading, sentence structure, story elements, and figurative language. Go to the “Grade Level Help” tab to see what is available for each grade level.   

The next site for some good interactive grammar games for kids is Edu Place. The game is called Grammar Blast and is suited for kids from 2nd to 5th grade. It practices nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, and pronouns, as well as making complete sentences and punctuation. One good quality of this site is the number of review activities, which is critical in learning.

Grammar Gorillas is found at Fun Brain.com. The beginner’s level covers nouns and verbs and the advanced level covers all the parts of speech. When you start to play, you will notice that the parts of speech are listed on the page with definitions and examples given. Parts of speech covered are: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, interjection, preposition, conjunction, and pronoun. One good thing about this game is it explains why an answer is wrong. This is an entertaining as well as educational game.

The next game on the list of interactive grammar games for kids is Grammar Practice Park, which is geared for grades 3-5. Grade 3 has practice on nouns, pronouns, sentences, and tense. Grade 4 practices on sentences, singular and plural, verbs, and prepositions. Grade 5 covers nouns, sentences, subject-verb agreement, and punctuation. It can be located at Harcourt School.com.      

Beyond Parts of Speech

The following games take grammar a little further and include synonyms, antonyms, prefixes, suffixes, and homophones.  

The website Teacher.Scholastic.com has five games, called Maggie’s Earth Adventures. They not only offer practice on punctuation and subject-verb agreement, but add work on prefixes, suffixes, and homophones. They are really good games and explain the grammar rules before you play. Here is a list of the games:

• Clean Up Your Grammar - In this game, the beach needs to be cleaned up by picking up nouns and verbs. The “trash” needs to be placed in the correct trash can. This game is also offered in Spanish.  
• Short Circuit - In order to help Maggie fix her computer, you have to match prefixes and suffixes to their meaning.
• Super Match Game - In this memory game, you match homophones, or words that sound the same.
• Fish 'Em Up! - In this game, you use a fishing pole to catch the right words.  It covers adding suffixes and explains the rules for doing that.Your browser may not support display of this image. 
• Edit Dan's Copy - This is an editing game which has two levels. The first level covers beginning and ending punctuation of sentences and level two covers quotation marks, apostrophes, and run-on sentences.   

In addition to punctuation and making complete sentences, the next website has games that cover synonyms, antonyms, prefixes, and suffixes. They are found at Ellwood.Goleta.k12.ca and are suited for grades 2-6. In one game, called Ball Hog, the player scoops up the tennis ball which has the proper synonym or antonym.  The game Word Jungle has the player searching for synonyms in a jungle. There is an Egyptian pyramid in Race to Ramses, where the player adds prefixes and suffixes to words. Wall of Words has the player building a wall by making properly punctuated, complete sentences. The graphics are well done and the games are fun to play.