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Action Verbs
As you are teaching the parts of speech, introduce your action verbs lesson with this helpful PowerPoint. The 19 slides in this presentation walk students through the different types of action verbs, including: present, past, and future...
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A Now Thing: Present Tense Verbs
Present tense verbs are the focus of this language arts worksheet. Students review verb tenses, and identify present tense verbs in 22 sentences. Some good, solid practice can be found in this fine worksheet.
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Non-Action Verbs
A verb is something you do — but can you always see the action? Use a slideshow presentation to clarify the differences between verbs that describe actions, and verbs that describe senses, preferences, and emotions.
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Regular or Irregular: Two Kinds of Verbs
The two kinds of verbs, regular and irregular, are the focus of this language arts activity. After a thorough, two-page description of both types, young grammarians fill in the present tense verb given the simple past and past participle...
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The Present Is Perfect: Using Present Perfect Tense
Your developing language users rewrite 10 sentences by changing the underlined verbs to present perfect tense verbs with one of the helping verbs: have, has, or had. Resource contains explanatory material as well as a practice worksheet.
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Structure Practice: The Passive Voice
Use this online interactive activity in an ELD class or for younger native speakers. They practice using simple past tense verbs in the passive voice. Many of the constructions are not straightforward, nor often used by early speakers,...
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Thanksgiving Lesson
Practice using proper verb tenses in the spirit of Thanksgiving! Learners are given holiday photographs as prompts to create oral and written sentences in a targeted verb tense.
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Learning About Verb Tenses
How much do your youngsters know about the simple present, past, and future tenses? Find out with this series of practice activities. To begin, learners become acquainted with the verb tenses by reading definitions and examples and...
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Present Tense Verbs
In this recognizing present tense verbs in sentences worksheet, learners choose the correct action verbs, that agree with the subjects, to complete sentences. Students write 15 short answers.
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Pendemonium: The Great African Surfari
Young scholars discover the importance of matching verbs to their subjects through a discussion of a whimsical video on verb agreement and a read aloud of the book, "To Root, To Toot To Parachute". They practice verb agreement in...
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Actions in Progress
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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Past Time
How do you talk about things that have already happened? What about things that happened in the past and are still happening? Explore past, past perfect, and past progressive verb tenses in a helpful slideshow presentation.
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Action Verbs 2
In this identifying action verb usage worksheet, learners 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 verbs.
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Yellow Submarine
Here's a clever twist on a grammar lesson. Kids listen to the Beatles' happy children's song, "Yellow Submarine" and then identify the simple present and past tense verbs in the lyrics.
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Present Perfect Tense
In this interactive grammar worksheet, students select the word from each drop down menu that completes each of the eight sentences. This worksheet focuses on using the present perfect progressive or nonprogressive tense.
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Gone With the Past: Past Tense Verbs
For this past tense verbs worksheet, students change the verbs to past tense in 8 sentences and change 8 past tense verbs into present tense verbs on the lines provided.
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Action Verbs - Past, Present or Future Tense
For this grammar worksheet, students circle the action verb in each of 10 sentences. They write down whether the verb is past tense, present tense, or future tense on the blank line at the end of each sentence.
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Future Tense Looking Forward
In this verb worksheet, student read a selection about the past, present and future verb tenses. Students change the verb tense in 8 sentences to make them future tenses and write a paragraph using at least 5 sentences about their plans...
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Select the Tense
For this verb tense worksheet, students practice their grammatical skills as they identify the action verbs in 15 sentences and label each as present, past or future tense.
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A Past Thing Past Tense Verbs
For this past tense verbs worksheet, students read about and discuss past tense verbs and underline the past tense verb in 6 sentences looking for the clue letters -ed.
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Zoom to the Future: Using Future Tense Verbs
In this future tense verbs instructional activity, students underline the verbs and the helping verbs in 9 sentences. Students check over their answers when done with the instructional activity.
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Crossword Puzzle - Verbs in Present Tense
In this crossword puzzle worksheet, students use the clues to fill in the crossword puzzle about present tense verbs. Students complete 6 clues.
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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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Grammar Games and Activities
Thirty pages of grammar activities? Your young grammarians will be well versed in the parts of speech, basic verb tenses, and much more after completing even a handful of these exercises.