Action Verbs Language Arts Grammar Practice Craft, Worksheets, and Activities

Can grammar practice and language arts ELA activities focusing on action verbs be fun? Oh, boy... just watch your 1st and 2nd grade students use the movie clapboard craft they make to show their knowledge of what action verbs are. Imagine yourself looking forward to this grammar lesson each year.

Hook them with the clapboard craft. Your students will love making this craft to use while they apply what they know about verbs. Students open the clapboard for all action verbs but they keep it closed if the word isn't. This is learning in "action". You gotta make these!

But there's more than just an interactive craft.

• Post the definition.
• Your students can get moving as they act out the list of action verbs provided.
• Let them apply their knowledge as they decide if the word is an action verb or not as they complete two worksheets (CVC words or vowel teams/digraphs) .
• On another day, use the two worksheets which let students draw pictures of verbs or brainstorm their own verbs to draw.
• There are many activities and ideas included to use during mini lessons over several days while your students learn, practice, and review.

Try these with your kids and make grammar lessons more fun.

Click on "PREVIEW" and view "PREVIEW VIDEO" as I share with you how fun yet educational this craft and the activities are.

Included in your download:

• action verb definition (2 versions)
• pattern template for clapboard
• list of action verbs
• Act it Out action verb list
• Is it an Action Verb? list (nouns and verbs)
• 2 worksheets for students to decide - Is is an action verb? yes or no
• 2 draw the verb worksheets (1 blank version)
• write 10 action verbs worksheet
• worksheet to use to write a story with action verbs
• teacher tips and directions

Standards you will be building towards:

• ELA Literacy L.K.1.B Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs.
• (prep your students for ) ELA Literacy L.1.1.E Use verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future

This is perfect for First Graders during the fall to review the concept of verbs so that students can then extend their knowledge to verb tenses in future lessons.

Make a clapboard that supports a variety of concepts in your classroom:

• "Our School Rules" Library: pick (a book), carry, push in (chair), line up
• "What Happened in the Story" Goldilocks: eat, sit, sleep, run
• "What can you do with a Friend?" play, talk, share, take turns, laugh
• "Science Vocabulary" Moon: orbits, reflects (light), looks different (shapes - but doesn't really change), pulls you down (gravity- but less than Earth) MIND-BLOWING concepts that your students can learn!
• "Synonyms" look, peek, glance, stare (More GRAMMAR!)

The possibilities are endless. Use this craft to support what you are teaching in your own classroom.

Teachers who had their students create and use the clapboard had this to say....

★★★★★ Dawn W. posted, "Fun activity to wrap up our unit on verbs! They looked great! Thank-You!"

★★★★★ Elisa C. commented, "My First Graders loved making these to learn verbs."

★★★★★ Teri V. stated, "My students loved this. They had fun while learning and acting out verbs!"

Click to download now and have fun teaching grammar this year. Yes, grammar!

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Keep the learning going with more action verb activities:

• Action Verbs Task Card Game
• Irregular Past Tense Verbs Task Card Game

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