ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Identifying and Classifying Verbs in Context
Contains plans for a lesson using "Kites Sail High: A Book About Verbs" by Ruth Heller to teach about identifying and classifying action, linking, and helping verbs. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan...
Quia
Quia: Linking Verbs and Action Verbs
While this 15 question practice quiz focuses on linking and action verbs, it also asks students to type in subjects and other parts of speech. Java is required.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Bird Verb Poems
In this instructional activity, the mentor text entitled Birds, written by Kevin Henkes, is used. Students will do the art link included on the site first. Then students will work as a class to record verbs found in the mentor text. Then...
Other
Kim's Korner: Color Coded Parts of Speech Kinesthetic Lesson Plan
Students can brush up on their knowledge of the parts of speech when they do this lesson. This site contains a kinesthetic lesson plan that caters to children with all types of learning styles.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Wow! That Captures It!
Students learn how motion capture (mo-cap) technology enables computer animators to create realistic effects. They learn the importance of center of gravity in animation and how to use the concept of center of gravity in writing an...
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Uses of Verbs
This page focuses on verbs including definitions, action and non-action verbs, verb tenses, and verb moods with examples for all of the above.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Strong Verb
Notes, an animated video and a five-slide PowerPoint presentation explaining strong, active verbs and how students can use them in their writing. [1:25]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Verbs
This video lesson focuses on verbs: action, linking, and helping. It defines each, explains how they work in a sentence, and how to identify them. Real Player is required.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Verbs
This entry focuses on types of verbs and their functions including action, auxiliary, linking, regular and irregular, transitive and intransitive, and indicative, imperative, and subjunctive mood. It explains and provides examples of each.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Kids in Motion: Waddle
This activity connects literacy, creativity and movement. Students act out different animals in the book "Waddle" as the teacher reads aloud. When the animal name and the verb describing how that animal is read, students move like the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Action Verbs
Students will use handheld computers and the Sketchy program to illustrate action verbs.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Get Jiggy With It!
Students will exhibit their understanding of character through improvisation. Students will listen to a story and act out the actions. They will demonstrate the verbs and adjectives that describe their characters' movements.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Identifying and Using Action Verbs
It is important to know how to use verbs correctly. This lesson will demonstrate how to use action verbs. Students will visit Internet sites to learn more about action verbs. They will have the opportunity to use newly-learned action...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: I Spy
Teachers take the classroom outside as they bring action into the teaching of action verbs by playing "I Spy."
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Language: Vocabulary Acquisition: Shades of Meaning: Verbs [Pdf]
Students learn about the differences among action verbs with similar meanings by acting them out with classmates in this fun verb game.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Balloon Verb Game
Fun game that challenges students to choose which words are verbs. Exercise students' abilities to identify verbs.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Compound Verb
This site shows how a sentence can have more than one verb. The examples begin with one verb and then builds until the sentence has seven verbs.
English Worksheets Land
English Worksheets Land: 4 Shades of Verbs [Pdf]
Students learn about the differences among action verbs with similar meanings by placing them in order on a graphic organizer.
English Worksheets Land
English Worksheets Land: Extreme Verbs Worksheet [Pdf]
Students learn about the differences among action verbs with similar meanings by placing them in order on a graphic organizer from weakest to strongest.
Quia
Quia: Analogies (Set 2)
Students will improve their understanding of verbs that tell what action someone or something is performing by adding the correct action verbs to the sentences.
Quia
Quia: Linking Verbs and Action Verbs
Challenge students understanding of linking verbs and action verb with this online quiz.
TES Global
Blendspace: Verbs Action/doing + Linking/being + Helping
A nine-part learning module with links to texts, videos, images, and websites to use while learning about action, linking, and helping verbs.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Verbs: Action Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students describe what is happening in each image and write a corresponding verb on the board under the image.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: What Type Is Your Verb?
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews the basic verb types-- action verbs and verbs of being. Students are asked to identify the verbs and tell which type they are. Web links for practice activities are included.