Welcome to our list of resources for practicing prepositions, linking verbs, and helping verbs. This list of grammar resources provides practice with learning and applying these elements of English grammar.
In the primary grades (K-2), our children learn quite a bit of English grammar through our custom-built plan based on the Words are Categorical book series by Brian Cleary (along with selections from Our Mother Tongue) and IEW’s Bible Heroes Writing Lessons. The Words are Categorical Books include the following (and several more!):
- A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink: What Is a Noun?
- I and You and Don’t Forget Who: What Is a Pronoun?
- To Root, to Toot, to Parachute: What Is a Verb?
- Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely: What Is an Adverb?
- But and For, Yet and Nor: What Is a Conjunction?
- Cool! Whoa! Ah and Oh!: What Is an Interjection?
- Under, Over, By the Clover: What Is a Preposition?
- Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What Is an Adjective?
(Our custom-built plan was the result of concepts I found lacking in our oldest child before he went into Essentials – and because our second child needed a bit of creativity in his English Grammar diet.) I highly recommend these resources for learning English grammar easily in the early grades!
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Resources for Prepositions, Helping Verbs, and Linking Verbs
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Prepositions, Visuals & Task Cards,Prepositions of Movement Picture Dictionary
,,Preposition Student Coloring Book
,,Prepositions Task Cards
,,Prepositional Phrase Task Cards
,,Advanced Preposition Task Cards: Adverb vs. Preposition | Adverbial vs. Adjectival Phrases
,Games & Interactive Activities,Bug Prepositions Game Cards
,,Preposition Activities and Class Games
,,Prepositional Cut Sort and Paste
,,Buggy about Prepositions Activity
,,What Does the Fox Say? Prepositional Phrase Game
,,Prepositions Anchor Chart
,,Printable Preposition Games and Activities
,,Prepositions Treasure Map Activity
,,Roll-a-Preposition Game
,,Ollie’s Jar – Online Book to identify prepositions
,,Fling the Teacher Prepositional Phrase Online Game
,,Prepositions of Place Online Interactive
,,Several Other Prepositions Online Games
,Videos & Memorization Helps,Prepositions Song Video by Grammaropolis
,,Grammar Rock Prepositions
,,Prepositions Choreography – Slower Motions
,,Learn Prepositions to Yankee Doodle
,,Prepositions Bookmarks
,Lessons & Worksheets,What is a Preposition?
,,Prepositions Worksheets & Printables
,,Diagramming Prepositions Worksheet
,,Prepositions Worksheet
,,Identifying Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases Worksheets
,,More Preposition Worksheets
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Helping Verbs,Games & Interactive Activities,Helping Verbs Hands
,,Helping Verb Game Ideas
,Videos & Memorization Helps,Helping Verbs Song Video
,,Helping Verbs to Jingle Bells Video
,,Helping Verbs to Jingle Bells Printable
,,Helping Verbs Bookmarks
,,Grammar Rock: Verbs
,Lessons & Worksheets,What Is a Verb?
,,Helping Verbs Explained
,,Helping Verbs Worksheet
,,Sentence Diagramming Helping Verbs
,,There Is/Are
,,The Verb To Be
,,More Verb Worksheets
,,Using Strong Verbs
,,Helping Verb Game Ideas
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Linking Verbs,Visuals & Task Cards & Activities,Linking Verbs Chain – Printable Activity
,,Action & Linking Verb Task Cards
,,Verb Activities Sort | Unscrambling | etc.
,,Action or Linking Verb? Sentence Sort
,,Action or Linking Verb? Sentence Sort #2
,,Linking Verb Demonstration Activity
,Lessons & Worksheets,About Linking Verbs
,,Learn All About Linking Verbs (and Even How to Diagram!)
,,Linking Verbs Explanation
,,Action Verbs vs. Linking Verbs
,,Advanced Linking Verbs
,,Diagramming Linking Verbs
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Essentials Resources or Other English Grammar Topics
- A Stick and the Sand and Your Essentials Guide
- Essentials Chart Mastery
- Our Essentials Experience, or How to Scale Back
- Preparing for Essentials
- Ancient History Writing Lessons Vocabulary on Quizlet
- Essentials in Classical Conversations: A First Year Survival Method
- 101 Days of Homeschooling Essentials Ideas
- KISS Grammar
- Cycle 2 English Grammar Resources
- Cycle 3 English Grammar Resources
- Ultimate List of English Grammar Games
- Scattergories Creative Word Work
- Identifying decorations and dress-ups in reading (an activity for our Sign of the Beaver Book Club that can be applied to any reading assignment).
- Grammar Slammer Clue Cards
- English Grammar At-a-Glance
- On-Line English Grammar Usage Rules
- Parts of Speech Card Game
- English Grammar Analysis – Understanding the Basics
- Proofreading Bookmarks
- Holt Elements of Language (For middle school)
- Grammar Worksheets from Sinclair.edu