Verb Lesson Plans

Young scholars work together to identify parts of a sentence, and decide where the direct object pronoun should go and what it should replace.

Students practice and demonstrate an assessment of acting skills by performing a duo scene. They incorporate stage directions, objectives and tactics, character development, physicality, vocal use and variety with stage pictures. Each duo portrays and sustains a character and brings that character to life.

Students explore verbs that often are misused. In this misused verbs lesson, students distinguish the differences between sit and set and lie and laid.   Students complete a worksheet with the often misused verbs.

Students define specialized terminology involving parts of speech. They identify main and subordinate clauses and create complex sentences. They edit and revise writing to incorporate complex sentences and identify parts of speech and their function in relationship to each other.

Students read a piece of literature and locate the descriptive verbs in the piece. In this descriptive verbs activity, students understand the value of using descriptive verbs. Students rewrite a story they've written with more descriptive verbs.

Second graders become familiar with action verbs through the reading of To Root, To Toot, to Parachute: What is a Verb?  In this action word lesson, 2nd graders analyze sentences for the action verb. Students watch a video and complete a worksheet.

Learners listen to a story about the ocean.  In this fish lesson, students discuss what a verb is.  Learners color and write a sentence about a sea animal. Students look at the sentences and keep their catch if they correctly identify the verb.  Learners complete a verb worksheet.

Second graders examine the difference between present and past tense verbs. In this past tense verb lesson, 2nd graders determine that verbs can express things that happened in the past, and how to add "ed" to verbs. They participate in a visual literacy lesson using pictures of them from the past before writing a story that is added to their Edmodo account.

Students identify verbs in complete sentences. In this grammar and locomotor skill instructional activity, students rotate between ten stations, each with a designated sentence to be read. Students identify the action verb in the sentence and perform or "act out" the action described in each sentence.

Students practice using he/she with the verb+ing. In this speech lesson, students use visual cues to practice using he/she with a verb+ing.