help teach verbs

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I am trying to plan a lesson on verbs. I am studying Early Childhood Educaton, and this will be my first lesson plan; I could really use some ideas.

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Sometimes I will have my students pantomime the action verb and see if teir audience can tell what verb they are trying to communicate.

For art they can squish aluminimu foil into an action, cover with that white modeling clay and paint the action scene.

Of course, they would see that auxilary verbs and linking verbs would not have any action.

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After the children have been introduced to verbs as action words, I give them pipe cleaners and each child picks a verb. They use the pipe cleaners to shape a small person doing the action of their verb. Then we glue the figures to a large piece of paper. Each child writes the verb he/she chose and their name. This is a very popular activity, and the principal is impressed, too!

[Myzackaroo]

When we started studying verbs in my 2nd grade class, I gave everyone nametags and those goofy black glasses with noses and we went on a "verb hunt" We took our clipboards and walked around the school looking for "verbs in action." This was great fun... we went through the cafeteria, the library, outside, through a few classrooms.. they really loved this... and then the winner got a ****************er for having the most correct verbs :)

HTH :)

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I am a special ed teacher. When I teach verbs I also teach nouns. I sentences on a chart tablet that all contain vivid action verbs and I use the students names. Then I work with a two column chart that is labeled: who (noun) //did what (verb). Using simple sentences like: Timmy ran to school, the students can fill in the chart with the who and the what. The chart then shows them the noun and verb. This is a good introduction. Then I have to use future lessons to explain that nouns can be people but also places and things. Using a visual graphic and illustrative and vivd sentences as the teacher inout can go a log way in helping you students remember how to discern the noun and verb.
Tina

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I am a special ed teacher. When I teach verbs I also teach nouns. I sentences on a chart tablet that all contain vivid action verbs and I use the students names. Then I work with a two column chart that is labeled: who (noun) //did what (verb). Using simple sentences like: Timmy ran to school, the students can fill in the chart with the who and the what. The chart then shows them the noun and verb. This is a good introduction. Then I have to use future lessons to explain that nouns can be people but also places and things. Using a visual graphic and illustrative and vivd sentences as the teacher inout can go a log way in helping you students remember how to discern the noun and verb.
Tina

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Every time I start a verb lesson, I remind my (special ed.) students of the commercial "Verb, it's what you ____ (do)." They're very visual learners, and the TV ad reinforces the idea. The activity they liked most was "Doing" action verbs. I used an old kleenex box and had several verbs written on small pieces of paper. They picked one and acted it out, without speaking, like charades. The one who guessed the verb got to pick the next one.

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Using television commercials and magazine ads is a great way to teach verbs and other parts of speech. It even works for literary devices (e.g. similes - "Like a rock", personification, etc.)

[Dana Scott]

I designed a game titled "Verby Derby" to teach action verbs. On a piece of posterboard, I drew a racetrack with game spaces. On each space I wrote an action verb that a child could demonstrate (i.e. walk, hop, skip, jump, laugh, sing, wiggle, dance). I used toy cars as game pawns. On each turn, the player rolled a die, moved the indicated number of spaces, then acted out the action verb on which he landed. This game was fun and was very easy to make and store.

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I find that my second graders love to complete "mad libs." This is a great tool when you are trying to teach any of the parts of speech. You can make up a paragraph and leave out all of the verbs. Then without showing the children the paragraph ahead of time, ask them to come up with a list of the number of verbs that you left out of your paragraph. Afterwards, read the paragraph to the class with the list of verbs in the order that they gave them to you. The paragrah becomes a nonsense story that gets children excited about verbs and usually they want to try to make some up of their own.

[KatieBee]

Mad libs are a great idea-even doing one big one on the board would be a fun excercise.

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Sometimes I like to sit alone in the dark and think about how verbs have changed my life. Then I try to think about nothing, and completely shut my vital functions off, to see what life would be like without verbs, in a physical sense. Then I just start thinking about my brain, and visualizing it, so that doesn't usually work.

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A very simple way to check if a word is a verb is to put the word, "Let's" in front of the word. It work so well that there are few mistakes. "Let's write". "Let's job"...doesn't work. When a noun works as a verb, it is a chance for further vocabulary instruction. Denise B.

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In my first grade class I accumulate pictures. After singing a song about verbs and explaining that verbs are usually action words, I give each child a picture. They are instructed to look at the picture and try to determine what action is taking place. Each child takes a turn at the front of the room holding up their picture and describing the action. Camping, kicking (football), fishing, eating, laughing, crying, running, etc...). Sports magazines have great pictures to use and allow for an increased variety of vocabulary words such as tackling (football) or passing (soccer).

[Osha]

after the students have been introduced to the action verbs, i can mime the action and the students identify it and then look at their worksheet and circle the words of the action i've mimed