Teaching Resource
Verb Charades Active Game
An active game that allows students to consolidate their understanding of action verbs.
This teaching resource is an active game in which students can practice identifying action verbs.
Students select a card and then act out the verb they have chosen. There are 18 cards to choose from.
Detailed instructions are included in this resource.
NSW Curriculum alignment
- EN1-9B
Uses basic grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary appropriate to the type of text when responding to and composing texts
- EN2-9B
Uses effective and accurate sentence structure, grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary relevant to the type of text when responding to and composing texts
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCELA179
Explore differences in words that represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs)
- VCELY258
Analyse how different texts use verb groups to represent different processes (action, thinking, feeling, saying, relating)
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACELA1452
Explore differences in words that represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs)Elaborationstalking about effective words that d...
- ACELA1482
Understand that verbs represent different processes, for example doing, thinking, saying, and relating and that these processes are anchored in time through tenseElaborationsidentifying different types of verbs and the way they add meaning to a ...

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