Preposition Activities
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Preposition Activities

$6.00

Prepositions can feel abstract for many older striving readers, especially when instruction stays at the definition level. This resource emphasizes active, hands-on learning so students can see, manipulate, and apply prepositions within meaningful sentences. Engaging activities help students notice how prepositional phrases shape meaning, clarify relationships, and support fluent reading and writing. By interacting with sentence parts through sorting, editing, and building tasks, students move beyond memorization toward real sentence-level understanding.

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Description

Prepositions are small words that do heavy lifting — especially for older striving readers. When students struggle to understand how ideas connect within a sentence, comprehension breaks down long before they ever reach the paragraph or passage level.

This resource is designed to move beyond memorizing lists and instead help students use prepositions in meaningful, hands-on ways that strengthen sentence sense, fluency, and writing clarity.

This set combines explicit instruction, visual supports, and engaging practice activities so students can interact with prepositions, notice how they function in real sentences, and apply them during reading and writing.

 

 

⭐ What’s Included:

✔ 53 Common Prepositions List & Cards

Students are introduced to a carefully selected list of high-utility prepositions commonly found in academic and narrative text.

  • Preposition cards for flexible use
  • Ideal for sorting, discussion, reference, and small-group work

✔ 10 Low-Prep Activity Ideas

Designed to support engagement, movement, discussion, and sentence-level thinking. These activities work well for whole group, small group, intervention, or literacy centers.

Materials are included for four ready-to-use activities:

🔹 Prepositional Phrase Hunt Cards
Students search for and identify prepositional phrases in sentences, reinforcing how phrases function inside real language.

🔹 Sentence Kernels
Short, stripped-down sentences that students expand by adding prepositional phrases. This helps them see how meaning grows and how sentences become more precise.

🔹 Prepositional Phrase Frames
Structured sentence frames that guide students in using prepositional phrases correctly while reducing cognitive load.

🔹 Misused Preposition Editing Activity
Students revise a passage containing incorrect or awkward preposition use, strengthening editing skills and grammatical awareness.

 

 

Why Engaging Practice Matters for Older Striving Readers

Many students “know” prepositions only as a definition — but struggle to apply them when reading or writing. Hands-on, interactive practice helps students:

  • Build awareness of how ideas connect within sentences
  • Improve sentence parsing and syntactic awareness
  • Strengthen reading fluency through clearer phrasing
  • Support comprehension at the passage level
  • Write more precise, developed sentences
  • Gain confidence with grammar without drill-heavy worksheets

By actively manipulating language, students begin to see how prepositional phrases shape meaning — a key bridge between grammar instruction and real comprehension.

 

 

Perfect For:

  • Reading intervention groups
  • Upper elementary and middle school ELA
  • Grammar and syntax instruction
  • Literacy centers
  • Small-group or station work
  • Writing support
  • MTSS / Tier 2–3 instruction
  • Review and spiral practice

Teacher-Friendly & Flexible

This resource is designed to be easy to prep, easy to reuse, and easy to adapt. Use one activity at a time or rotate through several as part of a sentence-study routine. Pair with anchor charts or notebooks for long-term reference.

If you’re helping students move from knowing grammar terms to actually using grammar to understand and create meaning, this resource fits naturally into that work.

Addresses CCSS: CCRA.L.1 and TEKS: LA.6.10.D.iv, LA.7.10.D.iv, and LA.8.10.D.iii.

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