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


Action Verbs

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


Descriptive Verbs 2

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

Identifying Action Verbs

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

Writing with Vivid Words

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

Point Out the Action Verbs

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


Descriptive Verbs 1

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

Using Action Verbs

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

Animal Action Verbs

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

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

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

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

Adverbs in a Script

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

Mixed Skills Word Study Check-Up

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

How to Write a Scary Story

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

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!

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

Action words make writing pop! Through this activity, your second graders will practice using action verbs to tell an engaging story about what they did at recess.

Ready for Action!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Verbs that Show Character Action.

Vocabulary Cards: Verbs that Show Character Action

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

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.

Glossary: Verbs that Show Character Action

It’s time to write a movie! Have your students put on their director hats as they write an engaging movie scene using lots of action verbs.

Lights, Camera, Action (Verbs)!

Students become word artists as they use ordinary pictures to practice creating detailed descriptions. This technique helps your class learn how to paint a picture with words.

Paint a Word Picture

Imagery is one of the most important tools in a narrative writer's arsenal. In this lesson, students will will learn to craft vivid scenes by selecting powerful verbs and adjectives, as well as to critique descriptive writing using the same criteria.

Using Adjectives and Verbs to Make Writing Come to Life

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