Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Job Search Writing: Action Verbs to Describe Job Skills
Details about action verbs and why their use in describing skills, experiences, and accomplishments in employment-related documents is particularly effective.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Action Words Bring Life to Setting Details [Pdf]
Learners learn how to develop their ideas through description and action words through a story scavenger hunt. [PDF]
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]
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.
Everything ESL
Everything Esl: Hop! Jump! Turn! Action Words for El Ls
Your ESL students will have fun learning action words with this engaging lesson. Ideal for newcomers as those who have a few months of English,
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Strong Verbs
This tutorial focuses on replacing weak verbs with strong verbs in writing. It offers a video of robots Peter and Lucy discussing his need to fix the weak verbs in his writing. This information is summarized in a slideshow that follows:...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Verb Worksheets
In this learning module, students will learn more about verbs. Video lessons and reinforcement worksheets are provided. This module is designed to support Tier I, Tier II, and Tier III students in various grade bands.
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Verbs
This Skillswise site focuses on verbs. Included are a video about why identifying verbs is important, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction, and quizzes on the information presented. The Skillswise sites from BBC are geared to...
Road to Grammar
Road to Grammar: Specific Action Verbs
Choose the correct verb to fill in the blank in each sentence provided.
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...
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.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Vengeful Verbs in Shakespeare's Hamlet
In this lesson plan, students will consider Vengeful Verbs in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab. In this lesson, students will learn to distinguish generic verbs from...
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Verb Phrase
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a verb phrase in the context of a sentence.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Intransitive Verb
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify an intransitive verb in the context of a sentence.
Lingolex
Lingolex.com: The 100 Most Used Verbs in Spanish
This site by Lingolex has some of the most widely used verbs in the Spanish language at the beginner level.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Balloon Verb Game
Fun game that challenges students to choose which words are verbs. Exercise students' abilities to identify 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.
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.
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.
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.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Active/passive Voice: More Complex Tenses (English Ii Writing)
In this learning module, students will expand their range of editing skills and improve your writing by replacing passive verbs with active verbs and learning to use verb tense consistently. It will improve their voice, tenses, and mood.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Using the Correct Verb Tense
Verb tense is used to show when an action occurs, whether it is in the past, the present, or the future. [0:56]
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Preterite Tense Regular Verbs
Excellent examples of the preterite tense for regular verbs. You can also generate a quiz where you can select 10 to 25 sample questions to help test your knowledge of regular verb conjugations in the preterite tense.