16 Parts of Speech Board Games for Families and Schools

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Parts of speech board games help children learn the eight parts of speech in memorable ways. I found :

• 3 “pure” parts of speech games, such as Spying Parts of Speech that I recommend.
• 13 sentence building board games that use>² color-coded parts of speech and are great for part of speech practice

Comparison Table

The following three games are “pure” parts of speech board games and can be an addition to lessons about parts of speech.

Parts of Speech Board Games

Parts of Speech Bingo (Trend Enterprises Inc.)

★★★★☆

3-36 players | Age 9+ | CCSS Grades: 3-6 | Price $$

Parts of Speech Bingo is perfect for whole-class instruction because it has 36 playing cards. Each child will have a bingo card, which means you can use this game as a form of informal assessment to gauge each student’s understanding of the topic.

There are eight ways to play, depending on the Bingo pattern you choose:

• Vertical
• Horizontal
• Diagonal
• Four corners
• Postage stamp
• Big T
• Picture frame
• Whole card

Choose a style and then read the sentence on a calling card. A word (sometimes two words or more words) is underlined in the sentence. Players have to quickly identify the part of speech represented by the underlined word(s) and use one of Bingo chips to cover the correct response. The first player to get the Bingo pattern wins.

There is a definition for each part of speech in each box.

Although this is a well-designed game, it can become boring after a few rounds. It could have been made more interesting with silly sentences that would make children laugh – like with “Miss Bernard is a Wild Card” (featured in our post on sentence building card games).

Grasping Grammar (Learning Advantage)

★★★★☆

2-4 players | Age 9+ | CCSS Grades: 4-7 | Price $$$

Grasping Grammar is a comprehensive board game for parts of speech that even has a multiple-choice assessment. The difficulty can be adjusted by selecting the right cards. The first 25 cards are the easiest because they primarily have personal pronouns and correlating conjunctions.

The second set of 25 cards is more complex because they include indefinite, demonstrative, and reflexive pronouns as well as subordinating and correlating conjunctions, making the game suitable up to grade seven.

The game board is a matrix of sentences with color-coded words and rows listing parts of speech in the center. You can decide to play using only the sentences on the game board or add the playing cards for more complexity.

This game combines a simplified version of Bingo with a colorful game board. The center rows are where players would place their chips to identify the part of speech highlighted in a sentence. The first player to align three chips in a row would be the winner. A spinner is used to tell the players how many spaces to move and the word that should be identified in the sentence.

The design of the board is a bit awkward and can even be confusing to someone playing the game for the first time. However, the addition of the assessment is a great plus because teachers can use it as a formative assessment at the end of the game. You would only need to print enough copies for your class.

Spying Parts of Speech (Learning Advantage)

★★★★☆

2-6 players | Age 7+ | CCSS Grades:2-4 | Price $$$

Spying Parts of Speech focuses on four parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, and pronouns) and can be played at three levels, with 20 cards for each. The first level focuses on nouns and verbs, the second add adjectives, and the third adds pronouns.

There are also two game boards, thus creating further opportunities for differentiated learning. One board focuses on nouns and verbs, while the other focuses on all four parts of speech mentioned in this game. Therefore, teachers can place students in groups based on their abilities and give each group the relevant game board and playing cards.

A spinner is used to determine the number of spaces each player should move and the color of the word to classify. Points are associated with each card. Players use point chips to keep track of their points. The first player to get to 15 points wins.

Two other great features are the answer keys that come with each set of cards and the four printed assessments. Like with “Grasping Grammar”, teachers can use the printed assessments to test each student’s understanding of the topic formally.

The game’s only true limitation is that it only focuses on four parts of speech. It would have been great if Learning Advantage could have included another game board with another deck of playing cards so that all parts of speech could be included in the game. This addition would even make the game appropriate for students in grade seven.

13 Parts of Speech Games that Teach to Build Sentences

I recently wrote an article highlighting 14 sentence building board games. Most identify parts of speech since they are important for sentence construction. I have summarized these games below.

• Sentence Dice (Junior Learning) is a set of 6 dice with color-coded parts of speech that enable to build simple sentences by the roll of the dice.
• Sentence Scramblers (Smart Kids) seamlessly incorporates parts of speech and sentence construction, thanks to 125 foam tiles color-coded by parts of speech.
• 3-D Sight Word Sentences (Primary Concepts) is great for helping children in grades one and two identify some common nouns. The 15 nouns have real-life 3D replicas.
• Giant Sentence Building Cubes (Lakeshore) comprises 40 color-coded sentence building cubes – featuring nouns, adjectives, and verbs.
• Sentence Building Dominoes (Educational Insights) features 114 double-sided dominoes with eight color-coded parts of speech.
• Reading Rods (Hand2Mind) is really hand on. The breaking apart and putting together approach to learning speaks directly to tactile learners. The 156 linked cubes can be pulled apart and are color-coded based on the part of speech they represent.
• Build-A-Sentence (Learning Advantage) focuses on noun phrases that answer the questions who, what, where, when. Each type of noun phrase is color-coded.
• Six Grammar Games (Junior Learning) teaches punctuation, sentences, connectives, modal verbs, tenses determiners, phrases, and adverbials.
• Cooking Up Sentences (Learning Resources) uses recipe cards that bring cooking to life and list parts of speech ingredients to use in sentences, and parts of speech tiles (8 colors).
• Build a Sentence Part 2 (Creative’s) lists 240 parts of speech cards representing nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.
• Sentence Scramble (Wiebe Carlson Associates) enables to build sentences like crosswords. Words are color-coded to represent parts of speech.
• Super Sentence (Learning Advantage), like “Build-A-Sentence”, focuses on nouns that answer the questions who, what, where, and when. However, it is a strategy game more suitable for older students
• Sentence Smart (Scholar Skills) is a board game with color-coded parts of speech cards (7 colors). Players try to get rid of their word cards by constructing a complete sentence with them.

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