Towson University
Towson University: Verbs of Being, Linking Verbs, and Action Verbs Exercise 5
This is a 10-question, self-grading practice/quiz on verbs of being, linking verbs, and action verbs.
Towson University
Towson University: Verbs of Being, Linking Verbs, and Action Verbs Exercise 5
This is a 15-question, self-grading quiz/exercise over Verbs of Being, Linking Verbs, & Action Verbs.
Towson University
Towson University: Verbs of Being, Linking Verbs, & Action Verbs Exercise 1
This is a 15-question, self-grading quiz/exercise over Verbs of Being, Linking Verbs, & Action Verbs.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Action Verb
Notes and examples of action verbs and how they are used within a sentence.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Action Verbs
Students will use handheld computers and the Sketchy program to illustrate action verbs.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Identifying and Using Action Verbs
It is important to know how to use verbs correctly. This lesson will demonstrate how to use action verbs. Young scholars will visit Internet sites to learn more about action verbs. They will have the opportunity to use newly-learned...
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.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Simple Action Words for Pre K Children
This site offers a list of simple action words suitable for Pre-K children and tips for teachers on how to teach them.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Action Words Are Verbs
This activity challenges students to identify action words as verbs. The students will go on a verb scavenger hunt and play charades using action words. They will also utilize the Internet to reinforce what they have learned by playing...
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]
Students 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.
Everything ESL
Everything Esl: Hop! Jump! Turn! Action Words for El Ls
Your ESL learners will have fun learning action words with this engaging lesson. Ideal for newcomers as those who have a few months of English,
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:...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Verb Worksheets
In this learning module, students will learn more about verbs. Video lessons and reinforcement worksheets are provided. This module is designed to support Tier I, Tier II, and Tier III students in various grade bands.
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...
Road to Grammar
Road to Grammar: Specific Action Verbs
Choose the correct verb to fill in the blank in each sentence provided.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Identifying and Classifying Verbs in Context
Contains plans for a lesson using "Kites Sail High: A Book About Verbs" by Ruth Heller to teach about identifying and classifying action, linking, and helping verbs. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan...
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Verbs
This entry focuses on types of verbs and their functions including action, auxiliary, linking, regular and irregular, transitive and intransitive, and indicative, imperative, and subjunctive mood. It explains and provides examples of each.
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.