Should a kindergartner learn the parts of speech?

Only lightly, and one reference page is the right proportion. A five-year-old benefits far more from building and writing sentences than from labeling words as nouns or verbs. Teach the names as they come up in real sentences, spend the practice time on the 38 sentence sheets, and let the 7 noun sheets carry the only formal part-of-speech work he needs this year.

My child can barely write letters. Where do we start?

Start with copywork and labeling. Copywork gives a correct model to follow; labeling asks for one word beside a picture, the smallest independent writing that still counts as writing. Sentence writing, explanatory writing, and opinion writing all assume letters can be formed without thinking, so they come later in the year.

What is the difference between the Sentences set and Sentence Writing?

Sentences is grammar practice: 38 sheets on recognizing, completing, and ordering sentences largely supplied for the child. Sentence Writing is composition: 10 sheets asking him to produce a complete sentence himself. The first teaches the shape, the second asks him to build it, and most children need the first well before the second.

How many of the 130 sheets are open to everyone?

Twenty-six. Every skill set opens its first three worksheets to everyone, and the five sets holding a single page are open in full: Parts of Speech, Sentence Building, Capitalization and Punctuation, Edit and Repair, and the Grammar review page. Print those first and you will see the level before you decide anything else.

Kindergarten Grammar & Writing Worksheets

Kindergarten Grammar & Writing holds 130 printable sheets in two clusters. Grammar has 50: 38 sentence sheets, 7 noun sheets, four one-page lessons, and a single Grammar review page. Writing has 80: 36 copywork sheets, 15 opinion writing, 14 explanatory writing, 10 sentence writing, and 5 labeling.

Practice pages support a program; they are not the lesson. These sheets reinforce Grammar Garden — Kindergarten, the dedicated K–5 language and writing curriculum from Faith Readers. See every program →

Grammar

Writing

What grammar and writing should a kindergartner actually practice?

A kindergartner does not need grammar terminology. He needs many small encounters with a correct sentence: hearing one, reading one, building one, and finally writing one. That is why the sentence set is the largest thing here at 38 sheets, and why the four lesson pages and the one Grammar review page are single-page references for the parent rather than drills.

The five writing sets are a real sequence, not five versions of one task. Labeling asks for one word next to a picture. Sentence Writing asks for one complete sentence. Explanatory Writing asks the child to tell how or why. Opinion Writing asks him to say what he thinks and give a reason. Copywork runs underneath all four, giving a correct model to follow while the other sets ask him to produce his own words.

Nouns come first in the grammar cluster because naming words are the part of speech a five-year-old can see: a person, a place, a thing he can point at. Seven sheets is enough for that. The 38 sentence sheets are where the year's grammar work actually sits, and they run in a rough order of demand, from recognizing a complete sentence to completing and ordering one.

What a child copies matters as much as how neatly he copies it, so read the copywork page yourself before handing it over. At this age copywork does two jobs at once: letter formation, and the repeated sight of a properly built, properly punctuated sentence. Ten minutes is a full session, and stopping while the handwriting is still good is better than filling the page.

The order to teach these in

Nouns - 7 sheets (Practice) — Naming words first; needs only that a child reads short, familiar words.
Parts of Speech - 1 lesson page — One reference page naming the word types; read it after nouns are secure.
Sentences - 38 sheets (Practice) — What a complete sentence is, the core of the grade; builds on nouns.
Sentence Building - 1 lesson page — Assembling a sentence from parts; use it while the sentence set runs.
Capitalization and Punctuation - 1 lesson page — The capital and the end mark; needs a child who recognizes a sentence.
Edit and Repair - 1 lesson page — Fixing a broken sentence; comes after capitalization and punctuation, never before.
Grammar - 1 practice page — A mixed review page; use it after the four lessons above.
Copywork - 36 sheets — Handwriting from a correct model; can run alongside everything from the start.
Labeling - 5 sheets (Practice) — First writing that is not copying, one word per picture; needs letter formation.
Sentence Writing - 10 sheets (Practice) — One complete sentence of his own; needs the Sentences set and labeling first.
Explanatory Writing - 14 sheets (Practice) — Telling how or why; needs independent sentence writing first.
Opinion Writing - 15 sheets (Practice) — Saying what he thinks and giving a reason; the hardest step here.

Common questions

Should a kindergartner learn the parts of speech?: Only lightly, and one reference page is the right proportion. A five-year-old benefits far more from building and writing sentences than from labeling words as nouns or verbs. Teach the names as they come up in real sentences, spend the practice time on the 38 sentence sheets, and let the 7 noun sheets carry the only formal part-of-speech work he needs this year.
My child can barely write letters. Where do we start?: Start with copywork and labeling. Copywork gives a correct model to follow; labeling asks for one word beside a picture, the smallest independent writing that still counts as writing. Sentence writing, explanatory writing, and opinion writing all assume letters can be formed without thinking, so they come later in the year.
What is the difference between the Sentences set and Sentence Writing?: Sentences is grammar practice: 38 sheets on recognizing, completing, and ordering sentences largely supplied for the child. Sentence Writing is composition: 10 sheets asking him to produce a complete sentence himself. The first teaches the shape, the second asks him to build it, and most children need the first well before the second.
How many of the 130 sheets are open to everyone?: Twenty-six. Every skill set opens its first three worksheets to everyone, and the five sets holding a single page are open in full: Parts of Speech, Sentence Building, Capitalization and Punctuation, Edit and Repair, and the Grammar review page. Print those first and you will see the level before you decide anything else.