PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Spanish Action Verbs Lesson Plan
In this interactive lesson, students learn about Spanish action verbs while exercising!
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Action Verbs Lesson Plan
In this lesson students connect exercise and literacy. The teacher reads a sentence aloud and students must identify the action verb that was read and then act it out accordingly.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Action Verb
Notes and examples of action verbs and how they are used within a sentence.
Quia
Quia: Linking Verbs and Action Verbs
While this 15 question practice quiz focuses on linking and action verbs, it also asks students to type in subjects and other parts of speech. Java is required.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Uses of Verbs
This page focuses on verbs including definitions, action and non-action verbs, verb tenses, and verb moods with examples for all of the above.
Quia
Quia: Linking Verbs and Action Verbs
Challenge students understanding of linking verbs and action verb with this online quiz.
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.
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:...
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...
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.
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.