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Interactive
Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Balloon Verb Game

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
Fun game that challenges students to choose which words are verbs. Exercise students' abilities to identify verbs.
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Handout
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: The Compound Verb

For Students 9th - 10th
This site shows how a sentence can have more than one verb. The examples begin with one verb and then builds until the sentence has seven verbs.
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Activity
English Worksheets Land

English Worksheets Land: 4 Shades of Verbs [Pdf]

For Students K - 1st Standards
Students learn about the differences among action verbs with similar meanings by placing them in order on a graphic organizer.
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English Worksheets Land

English Worksheets Land: Extreme Verbs Worksheet [Pdf]

For Students K - 1st Standards
Students learn about the differences among action verbs with similar meanings by placing them in order on a graphic organizer from weakest to strongest.
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eBook
Quia

Quia: Analogies (Set 2)

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students will improve their understanding of verbs that tell what action someone or something is performing by adding the correct action verbs to the sentences.
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Quia

Quia: Linking Verbs and Action Verbs

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Challenge students understanding of linking verbs and action verb with this online quiz.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Verbs Action/doing + Linking/being + Helping

For Students 2nd - 6th Standards
A nine-part learning module with links to texts, videos, images, and websites to use while learning about action, linking, and helping verbs.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Verbs: Action Words

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students describe what is happening in each image and write a corresponding verb on the board under the image.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: What Type Is Your Verb?

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews the basic verb types-- action verbs and verbs of being. Students are asked to identify the verbs and tell which type they are. Web links for practice activities are included.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Add Ed and Ing Endings to Verb

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces rules for correct spelling of verbs ending in -ed and -ing. There is a wonderful interactive activity and Activote assessment.
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Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Job Search Writing: Action Verbs to Describe Job Skills

For Students 9th - 10th
Details about action verbs and why their use in describing skills, experiences, and accomplishments in employment-related documents is particularly effective.
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Article
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Verb Lesson Plans

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This articles discusses the importance of teaching verbs and provides tips on creating verb lessons including the definition of verbs and verb tenses.
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Unit Plan
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Simple Action Words for Pre K Children

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
This site offers a list of simple action words suitable for Pre-K children and tips for teachers on how to teach them.