Action Verbs Worksheets

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

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

In this worksheet, young writers will read two simple descriptions, then rewrite them using more vivid verbs and adjectives.

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

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!

Encourage students to explore the impact of using vivid verbs and adjectives on a simple description, then practice revising a phrase on their own.

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: 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.

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.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Verbs that Show Character Action.

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?

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.

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.