Lesson Plan
Verbs Working Together: Helping and Linking Verbs
Linking and helping verbs may not be the most exciting or understood verbs — but they are still important! Learn and practice these parts of speech. Learn and practice these parts of speech with this lesson that incorporates interactive exercises.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to identify helping verbs and linking verbs and use them in a sentence.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Have students work with a partner or small group to list as many verbs as they can in three minutes. Students will likely list all action verbs and that’s okay.
- After three minutes, have the group with the most verbs read theirs aloud.
- Now, ask if anyone had any of the following verbs: is, has, does, can, could, must, be, are, have, do, will, would, may, been, am, had, did, shall, should, might, being, was, and were.
- Students may be surprised or confused as, most likely, no one will have these verbs.
- Explain that these are called helping verbs and linking verbs and that they are often overlooked but are very important.