Action verbs worksheets

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An action verb tells what someone or something does.

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Kindergarten

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An action verb tells what someone or something does: run, hop, dig, sing. Kindergartners find the doing word in short read-aloud sentences, usually by acting it out first: if you can do it, it's an action word.
1st grade Core grade

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First graders find the action verb in sentences they read themselves. The reliable test stays physical: the action word is the one you could act out.
2nd grade

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An action verb is the word in a sentence that tells what someone or something does: runs, whispered, builds, sang. Second graders find the action word in each sentence and notice that every sentence needs a verb.
3rd grade

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An action verb tells what someone or something does. Third grade sentences can hold two actions joined by "and," and some actions come with a helper, as in "is training." Students underline every action verb, including the quiet ones like watched or waited.
4th grade

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An action verb tells what someone or something does: poured, steered, sketched, delivers. Fourth graders find every action verb in long sentences with two or three verbs, and they leave out helping verbs (is, were) and linking verbs (seemed, was), which do not show action.