Choosing Better Verbs
In this worksheet, students practice making better word choices by substituting boring verbs with more exciting choices. It was developed as part of a larger unit designed to demonstrate the importance of word choice and its role in improving students’ writing.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to understand how to make an action more vivid through careful verb choice, elaborated tenses and to use adverb groups/phrases to provide important details about a happening or state.
Curriculum alignment
EN3-6B
old
Uses knowledge of sentence structure, grammar, punctuation and vocabulary to respond to and compose clear and cohesive texts in different media and technologies
EN3-RECOM-01
new
Fluently reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes, analysing text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.