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Action Verbs Resources

Prepare for a world of writing with this packet of exercises, tools and tips. Students learn a few ways to spice up writing, like sensory words, action verbs, supporting details, and point of view.

Narrative Writing

Help students spice up their statements with action verbs that bring color to each sentence.


Action Verbs

This workbook makes grammar practice fun for your child by applying it to games and storytelling.

Grammar: Parts of Speech Practice

Using descriptive verbs will add more color to any comment, and this exercise shows students how to incorporate them.


Descriptive Verbs 2

Grammar is an essential part of the second grade language arts curriculum. This guided lesson teaches second graders how to properly use collective nouns, additonal nouns and verbs, and provides plenty of opportunities to practice these grammar rules in context. For more important practice with nouns and verbs, download and print the grammar worksheets that we suggest alongside this lesson.

Grammar 1

It's snack time! Kids master different parts of speech in this interactive grammar game. They must sort nouns from verbs in the vending machine.

Nouns and Verbs Sort

Show students how verbs can be used to add more character to a statement using descriptive verbs.


Descriptive Verbs 1

Practice identifying action verbs with this comprehensive grammar page that teaches kids the difference between passive and active verbs.

Identifying Action Verbs

Where’s the action? Use this resource with your students to practice picking out action verbs in sentences.

Point Out the Action Verbs

As students become more sophisticated writers, they begin to understand that words have different “jobs” in a sentence. These jobs can be thought of as parts of speech. In this word study unit, students will learn about the work that transition words, prepositions, verbs, adverbs and adjectives do. Students will also explore how certain kinds of words work together, like verbs and adverbs.

Grammar 3

Use this worksheet to help your students practice identifying adverbs, read fluently, and demonstrate their reading comprehension.

Adverbs in a Script

Give your students practice writing with detail and using vivid words.

Writing with Vivid Words

This worksheet shows animals in action! Introduce your child to action verbs with this fun matching and coloring worksheet.

Animal Action Verbs

An action verb is a verb that conveys action. Beginner writers can familiarize themselves with action verbs using this fun worksheet.

Using Action Verbs

Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

Back to School Poem

Get into grammar action with this practice page for beginning writers. Change each passive verb to an action verb to make the sentence more interesting!

Diagramming sentences is an important skill for beginning writers, and a great way to review parts of speech. Diagram a passage from Wizard of Oz for practice!

Diagramming Sentences

Verbs do a lot of the heavy lifting in good writing. Understanding the different kinds of verbs and how they are used enables students to write more compellingly. Students will explore how tenses work and how they must agree with and sometimes work together with other words in the sentence. Students will also learn about adverbs, the "sister" part of speech that enhance, or modify, verbs.

Verbs and Adverbs 2

Verbs and adverbs are the action heros of the language arts world. Third graders will be learning how to use these parts of speech this year, and you can support them with this guided lesson. Written by curriculum experts, this lesson provides kids with grammar instruction and plenty of examples of verbs and adverbs. For more printable practice with verbs and adverbs, check out the accompanying worksheets.

Verbs and Adverbs 1

After learning about a predator/prey relationship in the wild, students can use these organizers as a pre-writing exercise for informational paragraph writing. Students will use action verbs and adjectives to describe their predator and prey.

Predator & Prey Organizers

Use this resource to assess your students’ mastery of grammar concepts.

Mixed Skills Word Study Check-Up

In this worksheet, young writers will read two simple descriptions, then rewrite them using more vivid verbs and adjectives.

Imagery Using Verbs and Adjectives

Kids will identify as many verbs as they can. They'll then describe the verb as a moving action or a still action and identify the noun performing each verb.

Verb Search

Encourage students to explore the impact of using vivid verbs and adjectives on a simple description, then practice revising a phrase on their own.

What Sounds Better? Verbs and Adjectives

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

Be a Detail Artist!

Teach your students to use descriptive verbs in their writing. With this worksheet, students will rewrite each sentence with better verbs or verb phrases that bring the sentence to life.

Word Choice: The Perfect Verb

Make taking notes fun by having your students use this handy organizer to collect their thoughts while learning about predators and prey. Students will note what they learn, questions they have, and new or interesting vocabulary words they hear.

Nature Video Notes

Here's an activity that takes fourth grade reading and writing skills beyond the classroom to offer a warm welcome to a new neighbor.

 "Yellow Pages" for a New Neighbor

Little Easter Bunnies, get out your creative thinking caps and delve into this Easter writing prompt. Can you think up the best Easter egg hunt?

Easter Creative Writing #9

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Verbs that Show Character Action.

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