24 Fun Verb Crafts and Activities for Teaching Verbs August 10, 2019 By Bekki 2 Comments This content may contain affiliate links. Know someone this will bless? Share on Facebook Share Share on Pinterest Pin it Share on TwitterTweet Send To Devices Send INSIDE: 24 Fun and Easy Verb Activities for teaching verb tenses Are you a teacher, parent, or homeschooler? This one’s for you! I was browsing Pinterest this morning over a cup of coffee looking for a creative way to explore verbs and their three main tenses. With three different ages and stages of grammar going this year, I thought a hands-on verb craft would be more engaging than a fill in the blank worksheet. It can often be challenging to teach the same concept to kids of different ages and abilities. I find that if I can incorporate scissors, glue and the potential to get ink on their skin, the boys become a captivated audience. Lesson + Scissors = a win, win. Verb tenses can be overwhelming for kids. Make it FUN instead!! FREE Printable: includes 24 Ideas to help bring verbs to LIFE! I’m a firm believer in allowing language to wash over our kids in their read-aloud stories and I don’t make a big deal about things like past, present, and future tenses. Reading is the most effective way to teach kids proper grammar. Nothing impacts their grasp of the English language better than a well written and engaging story! Language, including the elusive present perfect verb tenses, become a natural part of a child’s vocabulary. What are verb tenses? Grammarly has a great simple explanation of the three verb tenses. Yes, practice makes permanent. As kids get older, well-structured sentences make fantastic copywork or handwriting practice activities, again relying on a story to teach the lesson naturally. Resource: Abeka’s Oral Language Exercises does a fantastic job of modeling confusing language clearly. It takes a little effort, but even learning action verbs can be a fun activity. 24 Fun Verb Crafts, Activities, and Resources {Printable} Verb Crafts and Activities: Perfect for classrooms, craft time, or at home learning. {Printable} Grammar Task Cards for 2-3rd grade include verb agreement activities: Perfect for classrooms, craft time, or at home learning. These task cards to print and carry in my purse for those days when we spent more time in the car than at the kitchen table. Waiting in the doctor’s office? No worries, let’s do a grammar card or two. Perfect for Classroom bell work or “ticket out the door” exercises. {BOOK} It’s Hard to Be a Verb Louis is a verb! He has a lot of trouble focusing and he is always doing something, but the problem is usually it’s the wrong something. It’s hard to be a verb! My knees start itching, my toes start twitching, my skin gets jumpy, others get grumpy. When it comes to sitting still it’s just not my deal. Haven t you heard… I am a verb! Louis mom teaches him how to focus by showing him a few hands-on ideas that anyone can try. A must-have book for all who struggle with paying attention! {BOOK} Kites Sail High by Ruth Heller This fun book explicates and celebrates verbs of all kinds, in ebullient verses which themselves sail and soar. Children will find it a painless and concise grammar lesson as well as a visual treat…A boon for language arts teachers as well as for all children and adults who love to play with the language. {GAME} The Great Verb Game Players pick a card illustrating a verb in the infinitive and throw one or more of the three dice: a pronoun dice, a tense dice and a dice with the affirmative, negative and interrogative forms. Players then conjugate the verb according to what is shown on the dice. {Game} Whoosh! Action Verb Game WHOOSH! your way to perfect verb skills with this all-inclusive action verb game! This unique verb game with 2,880 sentences targets singular and plural forms of 40 regular and 80 irregular verbs in six essential verb tenses: {Printable} Verb Tenses NO PREP Packet {Activity Book} Mad Libs- Because they never get old!! Mad Libs is a phrasal template word game where one player prompts others for a list of words to substitute for blanks in a story, before reading the – often comical or nonsensical – story aloud. Get your Fun Hands-on Verb Crafts Kit here: Hands on Verb Craft and Activities for Kids. Easy and Open ended. PRINT THIS FREE Verb Activity List. This post comes with a free printable verb activity list to help keep your kids hopping as they learn those verb tenses! This printable simplifies our journey to being that fun teacher!! Here is a sneak preview… DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE PRINTABLE Download the checklist. You’ll get the printable, plus join 9,000+ moms who receive my weekly parenting tips and ideas! Print. Any paper will do the trick, but card stock would be ideal. Place it in an easy to find spot as a helpful reminder. Know someone this will bless? Share on Facebook Share Share on Pinterest Pin it Share on TwitterTweet Send To Devices Send
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