Prepositional Phrases Resources

Where is the wizard of Oz? Why, he’s down the yellow brick road, in the Emerald City, inside a throne room, behind a curtain, that’s where. But you can’t tell this fabulous tale without prepositional phrases! Prepositional phrases help add color to a sentence. They modify nouns or verbs, meaning they function as adjectives or adverbs. To learn prepositional phrases, your child needs to know that they’re made up of objects preceded by short little words called prepositions. So in the phrase, “behind a curtain,” “behind” is the preposition and “a curtain” is the object.

To teach prepositional phrases, your child can enjoy descriptive writing, untangling a jumble of phrases and sentences, editing incorrect run-on sentences, or guessing the missing preposition from a picture. Ideally, prepositional phrases help can be offered to third through fifth graders.

At some point, your children may have to memorize long lists of prepositions. Why not turn it into a game? Learning prepositional phrases can include acting through charades, drawing animated cartoons, or making up nonsense stories with a random list of prepositions.

Our prepositional phrases resources are here to get you safely to Oz! To really take on a challenge, add even more complex components of a sentence with our resources on simple, compound, and complex sentences.