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I created 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.

 

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A quick easy verb printable to help fill in some blanks.

 

 

 

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This is a blend of activity, worksheet, and craft~

4 Flapbooks with sorts included: action verbs, juicy vs boring verbs, linking verbs, verb tenses
4 Verb Hunts with cards and recording sheets: Strong vs Weak Verbs, Identify the Verb, Find the Verb in the Sentence, Fill in the sentence with the correct verb tense
-Verb Writing Craftivity: Where do your shoes take you?

 

 

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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!

 

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

 

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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:

 

 

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{Activity Book}

 

 

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.

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Fun Hands-on Verb Craft

Materials

• A list of action verbs (you will create this together)
• 4 colors of construction paper: red, orange, purple, yellow
• white paper
• scissors
• glue
• markers

(each color represents a different tense of a verb)

• red for the base verb
• purple for past tense
• orange for present tense
• yellow for future tense

Brainstorm action verbs together.

This is when I remember how much I LOVE my whiteboard and dry erase markers more than Tuesdays… I’ve got nothing against this day of the week, I just love my whiteboard more.

Next: Each child picks 6 verbs.
Discuss the difference between yesterday, today and tomorrow and identify the different tenses of each of the chose verbs together. 

Related: Boys are Messy, Loud, Combative, Energetic Verbs Personified

Verb Craft Time

Full directions Here {FREE} 

Preparation:

• Cut red paper into larger rectangles, about 2 x 3″
• Cut purple, orange, and yellow paper into strips, about 3/4″ x 5″
• Write each of the base words on the red rectangles
• Kids write the proper forms of the verbs onto the appropriate strip: purple for past tense, orange for present tense, yellow for future tense.
• Next, the kids write a sentence for each form of the verb, on the appropriate color.
• finally, they glue the red square and the strips onto their white paper. One paper for each verb family.

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Optional Extension!

Using paint samples from your local hardware store.

Write the verb on the top of the strip. Kids used each section to write a sentence with the different forms of the verbs!

 

See it in action: Watch the video of this verb activity here.

My boys liked trying to create unique configurations with their verbs and sentences. Overall it was a success and more fun than the worksheet I have originally planned.

The worksheet would have been faster and created less mess, but the kids LOVED this and really learned their verb tenses. I would encourage you to look for crafts and hands-on activities a few times a week to spice things up!