Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases: Lesson plans and teaching resources
Students find the prepositional phrases in the sentences given.
An explanation, 10 practice sentences, and answers.
Students develop voice and style by adding details to their writing.
An explanation of the difference, examples, and 15 practice items. Answers available.
Students play with words as they explore how prepositions work in Ruth Heller's picture book
Behind the Mask
. They first explore the use of language in the text and identify how prepositions are used. They then read and identify prepositions used in a poem. Finally, students compose their own original prepositional poems, which they publish in a multimodal format modeled on Heller's text.
This downloadable YouTube video (1:43) will make a good reinforcing activity. Students can perform it in the classroom.
This slide presentation is a good review activity for independent work by individual students or small groups.
Students memorize a list of prepositions sung to "Yankee Doodle."
This page offers a definition, examples, a list of prepositions, and 10 sentences for students to practice with. Students can check their responses by clicking on "answers."
A collection of teacher-tested activities for teaching prepositions to elementary students.
Third graders read
Find the Puppy
by Felicity Brooks and identify the prepositions. After practicing prepositions by completing worksheets (not included), students write their own preposition books.
Four activities to develop literacy skills, including one that helps students learn prepositions.
and send it home with students to work on with parents.
Students write a paragraph about a special place they remember, then search for prepositional phrases in their rough draft. After a read-aloud of
All the Places to Love
, students talk about Patricia MacLachlan's use of prepositional phrases to give her sentences flow. Students revise their special place paragraphs to use meaningful prepositional phrases that share memorable details.
This downloadable YouTube video (5:01)explores the origin of that "Don't end a sentence with a preposition" usage rule (or "cherished superstition"). Includes advertising at the end.
This high-resolution graphic will make a good poster for your classroom. It illustrates "into" vs. "in to," "ask for" vs. "ask to," "think of" vs. "think about," "heard of" vs. "heard about," and "among" vs. "between."
Students create a sentence about weather using an online sentence generator (included). After manipulating and illustrating the sentence, they write a longer story or description using the sentence as inspiration. Emphasis is on learning to move adverbs and prepositional phrases around in sentences to craft more fluent and more interesting writing.
In this worksheet students add prepositional phrases to sentences. One page, designed for 4th grade. Adobe Reader required.