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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Verbs 1 - Actions

Action verbs are words that describe what a person, animal, thing, or force of nature can do.
Daily Grammar Lesson 1

Examples:
kick
run
eat
blow

Teaching Ideas:
  • Play verb games (Search By Topic" in sidebar) such as Verb Collection and Verb Charades.
  • Start to notice verbs if doing other regular copywork.  It is important to look for copywork that has action verbs at this stage; try to avoid linking verbs until that concept is covered.
Copywork Ideas (younger):
  • Make a list of verbs.
  • Frog fell off the sled.  Toad rushed past trees and rocks. (Lobel)
Copywork Ideas (older):
  • Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God. (Longfellow)
  • Wisdom adorns riches, and shadows poverty. (Socrates)
  • Fancy and pride seek things at great expense. (Young)
    We circled nouns in black pencil
    and verbs in red pencil.



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