EngageNY
Writing to Show, Not Tell: Dialogue, Sensory Words, and Strong Action Verbs
Consume, gobble, devour ... serving up strong verbs! Writers focus on using dialogue, strong action verbs, and sensory details in their writing. After analyzing a model narrative, they apply their learning to their own hero's journey...
English With Jennifer
Conversation Pieces: A Verb Tense Activity
Teach your English language learners about conversations by inviting them to participate in a conversation about an interesting object. Through this conversation, learners will naturally use various verb tenses and practice asking and...
EngageNY
Writing the Children’s Book: Day One
With a brief mini-lesson, scholars learn about using strong verbs, sensory details, and precise descriptions. Next, pupils continue working on their children's book storyboards before choosing their strongest pages for peer critiques.
K12 Reader
Change the Verbs to Adverbs
A 10-item worksheet challenges scholars to change verbs to adverbs using their knowledge of adjectives and suffixes.
K12 Reader
Find the Pieces: Predicate Adjective, Noun and Verb
This activity is helpful! Young grammarians review ten simple sentences, each with a subject, linking verb, and predicate adjective, before noting each part of speech appropriately.
Curated OER
Tense Consistency Exercise 2
In this tense consistency worksheet, students are given the beginnings to ten sentences along with a tense in which they must complete the sentence.
Southern Illinois University
Subject-Verb Agreement
Your writing lessons may be all about solid arguments, but in grammar, it's all about agreement! Learners practice identifying proper and improper verb form in a worksheet focused on subject-verb agreement and indefinite pronouns.
Nosapo
Weather and Present Continuous Tense
What's the weather like right now? Is it raining or is it snowing? Using present continuous tense, learners practice describing the weather with weather vocabulary words.
ESL Kid Stuff
Past Tense Activities - Irregular Verbs: Part 2
The second part of a two-part instructional activity on irregular past tense verbs prompts language learners to add four more verbs to the list of twelve they have been working with.
Poetry4kids
How to Write an Alliteration Poem
Learners follow five steps to compose an alliteration poem. They choose one consonant and brainstorm as many nouns, verbs, and adjectives they can think of to create rhyming sentences that come together in a poetic fashion.
Curated OER
Appropriate Use of Helping Verbs
Readers of all ages correctly use appropriate verbs in their speech and writing. The focus of this lesson is on the proper use of helping verbs.
Curated OER
Past Tense Irregular Verbs
With this worksheet, youngsters review past tense irregular words and predict the spelling of these words. They complete a worksheet where they fill in the missing letters of irregular verbs. The sheet provides the exact number of spaces...
Curated OER
Appropriate Use of Helping Verbs
Intended for learners struggling with or having issues using auxiliary verbs, this activity has them orally compose sentences using one of the provided helping verbs. They will attempt to find patterns in groups of verbs and make class...
Curated OER
The Writing Tips: One, Two, There, You're Out!
Introduce your class to the importance of using active verbs in writing. Learners read sentences in which the word there is used, and identify an active verb that can be used instead. The instructional activity comes with a comprehensive...
Curated OER
Verb Forms- Present and Past Tense
In this verb tense worksheet, students fill in 30 blanks by choosing the proper verb form from the word in parenthesis. They complete a conversation by putting 18 verbs into the present perfect or simple past tense.
University of North Carolina
Conditionals: Verb Tense in “If” Clauses
"If you give a mouse a cookie, then he's going to ask for a glass of milk." These iconic words from Laura Numeroff's classic tale offer a great example of conditionals, a topic covered in the handout as part of a larger writing series...
Curated OER
Tense Consistency Exercises
In this language arts worksheet, students study subject/verb agreement in sentences by reading and looking for errors in 12 sentences. Students then insert the correct verb tense indicated in 10 sentences. Students also read 3 paragraphs...
Curated OER
Present Perfect Tense Practice
Intended simply for practice, this set of ten sentence frames requires a verb conjugation for each. In this case, all verbs must be translated to the present perfect tense. The sentences, although nothing exciting, are simple and provide...
Curated OER
Verbs And Tenses
In this verbs and tenses worksheet, students write a short sentence for each of the twenty verb tense directives and then underline the particular structure requested. This would be a good resource for reviewing each of the verb tenses...
Curated OER
Perfect-English-Grammar.com: Irregular Verbs Past Simple (Part 2)
Practice, practice, practice! Your young grammarians write the past tense form of irregular verbs (The present tense form is given in parentheses.) in the blank space in 25 sentences. Space between the sentences is very small, so I'd...
Curated OER
Quiz 8A: Irregular Verbs-Group 2
Here is a straightforward learning exercise that provides practice with irregular verbs. First, learners write the past tense form of 10 irregular verbs next to the given present tense form. Then they use the verbs from that list to...
Curated OER
Irregular Verbs Group 7
Give your class practice with nine not-the-most-basic irregular English verbs with this plain, but handy, worksheet. They write the past tense form of nine verbs next to the present tense form, then they use each verb to fill in the...
Curated OER
Collective Nouns and Verb Agreement Practice
Break down subject and verb agreement with this exercise. This activity only deals with present tense verbs and collective nouns. Pupils learn how to make the verb of a sentence agree with the collective noun by reading sentences and,...
Curated OER
Word Choice: Descriptive Verbs
In this word choice worksheet, learners will read a 5 paragraph essay about an igloo hotel. Then students will replace 10 verbs with more descriptive verbs. Next, learners will use strong verbs from a word bank to complete 14 sentences...
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