Verbs!

By: Ally, Sydney, and Symone

Do Now I can Identify Verbs to properly

punctuate sentences. Which words in the sentences

below show movement?1. Cindy walked to the store.2. Todd drove to work.3. The bike rolled down the hill.

What do you think is a verb?• It is a word that shows action or state

of being.–Action: run, swim, jump, taste, fall,

dream–State of being: be, appear, seem,

feel

Try to write juicy sentences without verbs.

• Wow! What a great bike.• Yumm. Good food. More cookies

anywhere?

• But how long can you live with fragments?

Sentences!

The red car was driving down the street.

The blue horse was jumping over the fence.

I skid across the floor. Lenny grabbed a pineapple.The phone is ringing.The person on the floor crawled into

the cave.

AnswersDrivingJumpingSkid GrabbedRingingCrawled

DRAFT!!!

• Begin drafting your narrative! Use the graphic organizers from yesterday to guide your writing!

Read Independently

• Write down 5 action verbs on your index card as you read.

• Turn in when you are done!

Essential Question!• How does knowing and using verbs

make you a better reader?

What do you need to learn from this?

• You need to learn how to properly punctuate sentences.

• You also need to know if and when characters move through out the story.

Lesson Plan!!!!• Do now with objective .• Ask students to identify verbs in

sentences• Ask students “what’s a verb?”• Help them make examples of a verb• Give them at least 3 sentences with no

verbs in it and ask them to put verbs in it to make it sound better

• Ask them to make their own sentences with Verbs in it(5 sentences at the least)