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Story blanks generator

Parts-of-speech practice disguised as a party game. Players are asked for a noun, a plural noun, a verb ending in -ing and so on without seeing where the words will land, then the words are dropped into a story and read out. Six stories to choose from, or let the sheet surprise you, in either of two ways to play — download an A4 or US Letter PDF.

Pick a story and how you want to play it, preview the sheet, then download the PDF — no account needed.

Quick presets

Page one asks for the words by their part of speech; page two is the story. Fill page one without reading page two — not knowing where a word will land is the whole game.

The Robot BabysitterAsk a friend for each kind of word and write it on the line — do not let them read the story first.Words to collect1. a number2. a silly word3. a food4. an animal5. a plural noun6. an adverb ending in -ly7. a noun8. an adjective9. a verb ending in -ing10. a verb11. a placeCreated with Print Joey — printjoey.com
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The Robot BabysitterNow copy your words into the matching spaces, then read the whole story out loud.Whenourparentswentout,theyleftarobotinchargeofus.Ithadonewheel,1arms,andascreenthatflashed"2!"wheneveritwasconfused.Firsttherobotmadedinner,whichwas3withextraboltsinit.Thenitreadusabedtimestoryaboutabrave4whowasterriblyafraidof5.Itreadso6thatwefellasleeplongbeforetheending.Inthemiddleofthenightitwokeusuptoannouncethatthe7neededcharging.Bymorningthekitchenwascompletely8,thecatwas9ontheroof,andsomebodyhadto10allthewayto11foranewtoaster.Created with Print Joey — printjoey.com
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How it works

  1. Pick one of six stories, or let the sheet surprise you.
  2. Choose whether to collect the words on a separate page first, or write straight into the story.
  3. Download the PDF, print it, or copy a share link that restores these settings.

Using these worksheets in teaching

This is the rare grammar exercise children ask to do again, and the reason is that the parts of speech are being used rather than identified. A child who can circle the adjective in a sentence has not necessarily got one available when asked for one cold, and “give me an adjective” with no context is a much harder question than any worksheet asks — which is exactly why it is worth asking. Insist on the collection page being filled in before anyone reads the story: the moment a player can see where the word lands they start choosing sensibly, the story stops being funny and the exercise stops being a test of whether they hold the category. It works well as a pair activity with the roles swapped halfway, and it is one of the few sheets where reading the result aloud is the assessment — a story that lands proves the words were the right kind, and a story that stumbles usually shows exactly which category was misunderstood.

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between the two ways to play?
Collect the words first prints two pages: page one is a numbered list asking for the words by their part of speech, page two is the story with numbered blanks. One player fills in page one without reading the story, then copies the words across — which is the game, because the comedy comes from not knowing where a word will land. Write straight in prints one page: the story only, with the part of speech printed under each blank, for a child working alone or a class short of time.
Is there an answer key?
No, and there could not be. The words come from the players, so there is nothing to be right about — the only wrong answer is a boring one. Every other sheet on this site that has answers prints them; this one has none, so it offers none rather than an empty page.
Which parts of speech are asked for?
Nouns, plural nouns, verbs, verbs ending in -ing, adjectives, adverbs ending in -ly, and numbers, plus a few friendlier categories — an animal, a food, a place and a silly word — that keep younger players in the game while the grammar words are being learnt.
Are the stories suitable for a classroom?
They are written and checked by hand to be silly but never unkind: nothing is about a named person, nobody is hurt, and every joke survives being read aloud to a class. They also avoid school grades, currencies, holidays and sports that only make sense in one country.
Will any word I give actually fit?
Grammatically, yes. Each blank is written so that any reasonable word of its class still reads as a sentence — the articles “a” and “the” sit in the story text rather than in the blank, which is the detail most versions of this format get wrong and the one that produces “a apple”.
What does “surprise me” do?
It lets the sheet pick one of the six stories for you. The choice comes from the sheet’s seed, so pressing Regenerate gives a different story and a shared link always reopens the same one.

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Last reviewed: July 2026. Worksheet content is generated by deterministic algorithms and covered by automated correctness tests — no AI-generated answers.