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.

Show me some action! Use this grammar lesson with your students to teach them how to identify and use action verbs in sentences.

Can your students differentiate between action verbs and stative verbs? Use this lesson to review verb basics so that students can identify action verbs in a text.

In this engaging grammar lesson, your students will use various visualization techniques, including charades, to support their understanding of action verbs.

In this great grammar lesson, your students will play a fun game of ad-libs before writing their own action-packed story!

Lights, camera, action (verbs)! After examining different action verbs, students put them to use when writing their own movie scenes.

Action verbs bring writing to life! After examining different action verbs, students put them to use when writing their own stories about recess.

We teach our writers to “show, not tell.” Action verbs are a key component in that process! Use this lesson to teach your students to identify and use action verbs in sentences in order to strengthen their writing with clear description.