Lesson Plan
Action Verb Synonyms
Using the same action verbs all the time can get old. Help your students spice up their writing by teaching them to identify and use action verbs. Your young writers will explore synonyms to improve their repertoire of action verbs.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to identify and use action verbs in sentences.
Introduction
(2 minutes)- Display the following sentences on the board:
- They said they would eat breakfast before going to the ski slope. The family said they’d never been skiing before. “Are you ready to go?” said Dad. They said, “Yes.”
- Call on nonvolunteers to share what is wrong with the sentences. Prompt the class to think about a particular word that is repeated a few times.
- Explain to students that it would get really boring to hear the same verbs repeated in a story. The author of these sentences needs to think of some other action verbs to use instead of repeating said in each sentence.