Today's Classroom Activities :

Action Verbs and More

Valuable Verbs
Language Make placards with one action verb written on each. Attach them to a ruler. As students share stories about what they did the night before, what happened in the story they just read or what they are going to write about next, encourage them to raise the valuable verb that best describes the action explained.

Identifying and Classifying Verbs in Context
In this lesson, students participate in an interactive read-aloud of Ruth Heller's Kites Sail High: A Book About Verbs. As students listen to the story, they respond to guided questions that help them express their understanding of the three types of verbs—action verbs, state-of-being or linking verbs, and helping verbs. After the skills are introduced and demonstrated, students have the opportunity to work both in groups and individually to identify and classify verbs in context. Finally, students summarize what they learned about verbs during the lesson.

Pendemonium: The Great African Surfari: Verbs
Students will analyze verbs, identify irregular verbs (go, went, swim, swam), explore present tense and past tense of verbs.
Students will also examine how verbs must match their subjects.

Action Verbs
Students will demonstrate their understanding of action verbs and will write expressively and practice their editing skills.

Verb-Adverb Charades
Verbs and adverbs take center stage in this lively activity.

Vivid Verbs
This lesson will encourage students to use more vivid verbs, verbs that give a very clear picture of the action taken place, and discourage the usage of "is" and "was." They will be making a personal thesaurus to use in creative writing.