Help students learn to identify verbs in a narrative text and recognize helping verbs within sentences.
Teaching Verb Groups
This resource supports teachers in explicitly teaching that verbs may be expressed as verb groups, as outlined in the Australian Curriculum. Students explore how helping verbs and main verbs work together to form verb groups within a meaningful text.
The included activity pack, Verb Groups in Action, guides students through identifying and building verb groups using the story A Day at Sunshine Park.
Curriculum Focus of this Resource
English – Language: Expressing and developing ideas. Understanding that verbs represent different processes and that these processes may be expressed as verb groups. This activity introduces students to:
- Main verbs (doing/being/having words)
- Helping verbs (am, is, are)
- Verb groups that show ongoing actions (e.g., is running, are playing)
The learning intentions of this resource is that students will identify verbs in a narrative text, recognize helping verbs within sentences. Build and record verb groups and understand how verb groups support meaning by showing when and how actions occur.
Students can:
- Highlight main verbs and helping verbs in the text
- Correctly combine helping verbs with main verbs to form verb groups
- Use verb groups in their own sentences
Explore Verb Groups Today
Use the dropdown menu to choose between the easy to print PDF or the editable Google Slide version to explore verb groups with your students today.
This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher in Michigan and Teach Starter Collaborator.
Verbs in Action Resources for the Classroom
Looking for more resources to use in your verb lessons? We have you covered…
Explore verb groups with your students using this verb group hunt worksheet pack. Guide your students to be better writers with this verb group poster set to display in your classroom. Explore verb groups and the words that surround verbs in sentences with this set of verb group worksheets. 
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