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Action Words
From asking to yelling, this app teaches action verbs through images. Users listen to each word and tap the picture that corresponds with that verb. Just touch the screen to get started!
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Meet Your Neighbor: Action Verbs
Get your kids moving on the first day of school! This action verb activity doesn't have to be used as an ice breaker, but it sure will work as one. Simply place pairs of cards face-side down on the carpet, each with an action verb...
Twisty Noodle
Animal Action Cards Book
Can you stomp like a elephant? Or slither like a snake? Use these animal cards to get your little monkeys moving! Each card features an illustration and action word that matches the animal.
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Action Words
In this action words activity, students read the 9 sentences and identify the action word or verb in each them. Students print their answers on the lines provided.
Jolly Learning Ltd
Jolly Grammar Action Chart
An excellent grammar reference page from Jolly Phonics provides definitions and actions to remember several fundamental parts of speech. The methods are interesting for learners who have a hard time remembering the differences between...
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Can you write?
In this ESL worksheet, young scholars complete a crossword puzzle using action verbs. Illustrations are included for six clues needed to complete the puzzle.
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Verbs: Doing Words
In this action verbs review worksheet, students identify the verbs in 10 sentences and then complete a chart by recording 16 action verbs for the 8 professionals listed.
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Working with Words Teacher Directed Activity by Mark Cogan for Elem. Test Prep
Students build word families. In this interactive language arts activity, students visit a website where they play a game creating word families. Students may print out their work when finished.
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Verbs: Doing Words
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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Verbs: Doing Words 2
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.
Basic Handwriting for Kids
Action and Be Verbs in Sentences
In this recognizing verbs worksheet, students read incomplete sentences for context and tense clues, choose correct verbs, and fill in the blanks to complete the sentences. Pupils complete five sentences.
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Poems: Itsy Bitsy Spider
Act out the "Itsy Bitsy Spider" rhyme with youngsters. Learners observe visual instructions before completing the corresponding actions, then draw the spider into a scene. Finally, they write down rhyming words that have the ai spelling...
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Verbs
Ready, set, action words! It's all about verbs as scholars examine 12 words and write down the six that are action words. They use the six words to complete six sentence frames, each accompanied by an image to assist grammarians in the...
Basic Handwriting for Kids
Verbs
For this recognizing action verbs worksheet, learners read incomplete sentences for context and verb tense clues, select a multiple choice verb and use it to complete the sentences. Students complete five sentences.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Special Friends: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 9)
Enhance language proficiency with a Special Friends themed English language development unit. Each lesson follows a listen, speak, move, and/or look routine that is guaranteed to get your scholars discussing topics such as animal...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
All Together Now: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 1)
All Together Now is the theme of this series of ESL lessons. Provide support to your language learners through games, role play, stories, and discussions all about greeting others, giving commands, telling about themselves, and being...
Basic Handwriting for Kids
Action and Be Verbs
In this verb recognition instructional activity, students use a word bank to fill in the blanks and complete sentences with action and be verbs. Students complete five sentences.
Basic Handwriting for Kids
Action Verbs 2
In this identifying action verb usage instructional activity, students read incomplete sentences for context and tense clues and choose from multiple choice answers to fill in the blanks and complete the sentences. Student choose five...
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Animal Action
Young scholars construct descriptive sentences. In this cross curricular music and descriptive writing lesson, students listen to classical music and pantomime actions that correspond to the music. Young scholars write descriptive...
Do2Learn
Safety: Street Safety
Clearly communicate to your learners how to stay safe while crossing the street and walking alongside traffic using this collection of 24 picture cards. It reviews basic actions like looking left and right before crossing, but also...
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Beach Verbs
In this verbs learning exercise, 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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The Verbs Have, Do, and Go
Using this simple activity could be a good way for your youngsters to practice using the verbs have, do, and go. By filling in the answers to the 12 questions, learners identify the correct verb.
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Action Words
Students discover that a verb is a word that expresses an action. Students at this age might find it more accessible to use everyday terminology, such as doing words or action words.
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Lights, Camera, Action!
First graders complete a variety of activities in which they practice recognizing verbs including a word guessing game. After a lecture/demo, 1st graders use worksheets imbedded in this plan to play the verb recognition game.