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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lights, Camera, Action Verbs

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders visualize what verbs are by assigning students to take pictures of action verbs. It may be used for all the parts of written language.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Action Verb Examples

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this action verbs practice activity, students examine a list of 18 action verbs and then write those verbs beneath the appropriate pictures.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Action Verb Examples 2

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this action verbs practice worksheet, students examine a list of 18 action verbs and then write those verbs beneath the appropriate pictures.
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Lesson Plan
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Quiet On The Set... Take 1...Action!!

For Teachers K
Students complete an activity with the book Step by Step by Bruce McMillan. In this verb lesson, students create a list of action verbs from this book and more to use in their own writings. They will create stick puppets to act out the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Stand Up For Verbs: Learning About Action Verbs

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this action verbs worksheet, students read 12 sentences and underline the action verb in each one. Students check over their answers with accuracy.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Using a Computer to Write a Letter: Verbs

For Students 3rd - 6th
Review the procedure of using a word processor to write a letter. Writers read 20 sentences that are each missing one action verb. They use the words in the word bank to complete the sentences. 
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Worksheet
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Verbs To Explain What People Or Things Are Doing

For Students 4th - 5th
For this verbs worksheet, students analyze a detailed picture of 15 children who are playing in a tree. Students write a sentence with a vivid verb to describe what each child in the picture is doing.
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Lesson Plan
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Verbs

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars complete verb worksheets. In this verb lesson plan, students complete two worksheets to help them identify and then use action verbs.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Jack Be Nimble

For Teachers K
Students recite the poem "Jack Be Nimble". In this poetry lesson, students read the poem and discuss other action words to use instead of jump. They rewrite the poem using their own name and a new action word. 
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Worksheet
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Actions

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this action words worksheet, students examine 7 pictures that depict an action. From 4 choices, students select the word that best describes the action. This is intended for ESL use.
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Worksheet
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Verbs: Doing Words

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this action verb practice activity, students fill in the blanks in 6 sentences with the 6 action words from the word bank. Students then use the words in another word bank to describe the actions in 6 pictures.
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Worksheet
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Verbs: Doing Words 2

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this action verb practice worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 6 sentences with the 6 action words from the word bank. Students then use the words in another word bank to describe the actions in 6 pictures.
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Lesson Plan
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Horsing around with Verbs

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students identify verbs in complete sentences. In this grammar and locomotor skill lesson, students rotate between ten stations, each with a designated sentence to be read. Students identify the action verb in the sentence and perform or...
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Interactive
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Actions in Progress

For Students 3rd - 5th
English language learners will find this practice particularly helpful. They match the sentences to their visual depiction. In the second exercise, they fill in the missing words. They use the sentences in the first activity to discover...
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Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

That’s Amazing!: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 3)

For Teachers 4th Standards
That's Amazing! is the theme of an English language development unit created by Houghton Mifflin. Following a speak, look, move, and listen routine, scholars delve into topics; seasons, weather, animals, landforms, telling time,...
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Lesson Plan
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Describe common actions and objects in specific and general language

For Teachers K
Having a diverse and well-developed vocabulary make for both good readers and good writers. The class discusses basic grammar, such as nouns, verb, and adjectives. They then view a series of pictures and work as a class to create simple...
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Lesson Plan
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Writing with Vivid Verbs

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students find vivid verbs in literature and use them in their own writing. In this vivid verbs lesson, students use a 'Thinking Thesaurus' of major verbs to study common verbs. Students then practice rewriting sentences using vivid...
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Worksheet
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Verbs

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this verbs review worksheet, students color 9 action pictures and then fills in the blanks in 9 sentences with the appropriate verbs. Students then write 7 original sentences.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Beach Verbs

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this verbs worksheet, students look at the picture in the middle of the page and then choose 7 verbs from the word bank that describes 7 things that they could do at the beach.
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Interactive
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Daily Routines: action words

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this verbs activity, students complete a crossword, fill in the blanks to sentences, label the pictures, and more for daily routines. Students complete 4 activities total.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Finding Verbs

For Students 8th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students review and discuss all the different types of verbs there are to choose from and then find and circle the verbs in nineteen sentences.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Verbs Ending In "ing"

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this verbs activity, students add "ing" to six verbs. Students read each sentence with a picture illustration. Students change the sentence to have the verb end with "ing."
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Worksheet
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Parts of Speech--Verbs

For Students 3rd - 4th
Verbs are the focus of this language arts instructional activity. Students underline the verbs, or verb phrases, in 7 sentences, then make 2 original sentences with verbs in them. A good instructional activity!
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Say When: Using Past, Present and Future Tense Verbs

For Students 4th - 5th
In this past, present and future tense verbs instructional activity, students decide if the underlined verb in 6 sentences are past, present or future tense verbs, write a present tense verb in 4 sentence and a past tense verb in 4...