The best method for building grammar and punctuation skills in students’ writing is with repeated exposure throughout the school year. Improve students’ vocabulary, grammar, capitalization, and punctuation with a mixture of interactive games and language review lessons sprinkled into your daily routine. Here are some ideas for grammar games:
Grammar Games
1. Hands-on language centers are a great opportunity to review and practice skills that have already been taught. Your students have fun, hands-on games to practice grammar skills independently or in small groups.
Take It to Your Seat Language Centers (grades K–5) give you mats and task cards to help students practice language skills. Simply laminate and organize these center activities in a folder. Get your free center on Coordinating Conjunctions in Compound Sentences for grade 3 here.
2. Synonym Scramble: Using index cards and a thesaurus, you can make your own game.
3. Very-Adverb Charades: Get students moving while reinforcing verbs and adverbs.
Grammar Resources
For daily practice of these skills, try Daily Language Review (grades 1–8). See this post for 3 reasons Daily Language Review became my no-fail method to teach Conventions of Standard English skills.
Check out these individual language center activities on TeachersPayTeachers:
Take It to Your Seat Language Centers: Multiple-Meaning Words Kindergarten
Take It to Your Seat Language Centers: Using Context Clues Grade 1
Take It to Your Seat Reading and Language Centers: Parts of a Sentence Grade 2
Take It to Your Seat Reading and Language Centers: Homographs Grade 5
Heather Foudy is a certified elementary teacher with over 7 years’ experience as an educator and volunteer in the classroom. She enjoys creating lessons that are meaningful and creative for students. She is currently working for Evan-Moor’s marketing and communications team and enjoys building learning opportunities that are both meaningful and creative for students and teachers alike.