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Strong Verb List with practice worksheet. Use strong verbs to enhance writing. A great revision strategy is to look for ways to make verbs more descriptive. This list of strong action verbs is a handy reference to use when a better word is needed. Students can keep these sheets in their writer's jou...
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- Read Vivid Verbs in Mentor Texts
- What Is A Vivid verb?
- Revise For Vivid Verbs
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Use mentor texts to teach children in all grades about vivid verbs.Look for verbs that sing and move. Consider their more lackluster alternatives. Discuss why the writer chooses those specific words to create their piece of writing. Read these beautifully written picture booksand search for vivid verbs. Underline them. Highlight them. Collect them....
Vivid verbs are verbs with meaning — that give readers sensory images and semantic connotations. The right vivid verb shows semantic nuances.For example, devour is different than eat. If you use the word devour instead of eat, it implies a voracious appetite. Likewise, fleeing is different than running. If you say flee instead of run, semantically,...
It’s essential to revise your writing for verb choices. Even in my own writing, I often start with boring verbs, but in revision, cut the boring verbs and replace them with strong verbs that show action. Read your writing out loud. This is so important. Stop when you get to a boring verb. Circle it– and come back to it later. When you go back throu...
After reading your mentor texts and making word lists, apply what you know about vivid verbs to your own writing. Don’t forget to revise your drafts for better verbs after your first draft. Click on the Vivid Verb List image below and get the free pdf download.
Strong Verb List with practice worksheet. Use strong verbs to enhance writing. A great revision strategy is to look for ways to make verbs more descriptive. This list of strong action verbs is a handy reference to use when a better word is needed. Students can keep these sheets in their writer's journal or notebook.
- Identifying action words and verbs. Writing sentences with verbs. Verb-noun agreement. Past, present and future tenses. Verbs ending in "ed" and "ing"
- Identifying verbs. Writing verbs in sentences. Action verbs vs linking verbs. Conjugating verbs. Commonly confused verbs (saw/seen; lie/lay/laid; is/are)
- Identifying verbs (actions, mental actions, state of being) Identify verbs and nouns. Completing sentences with verbs. Commonly confused verbs.
- Past perfect, present perfect and future perfect tenses. Progressive (or continuous) verb tenses. Helping or auxiliary verbs. Can vs could.
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