Hidden within these sentences are prepositions; think your students can find them? After first reading a brief explanation of this part of speech, young grammarians are asked to examine eight sentences, underlining the prepositional phrases and circling the prepositions in each one.

Concepts

Grammar, prepositional phrases, prepositions, prepositions of location, prepositions of time, sentence structure, parts of speech

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Assign this worksheet as an in-class or homework exercise during an upper-elementary lesson series on the different parts of speech
• While correcting this exercise as a whole group, add the prepositions children identify to a classroom word wall

Pros

• Sentences include prepositions that indicate both place and time
• Includes an example that clearly demonstrates how prepositional phrases are used in sentences
• An answer key is included for the exercise

Cons

• None

Common Core

L.4.1.a L.4.1.e L.5.1.a