Writing with Verbs Worksheet
This writing with verbs worksheet asks 3rd Grade students to choose the verb that finishes each sentence and trade four tired verbs for stronger ones, with an answer key that makes checking quick.
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Description
Verbs carry the action of a sentence, and the verb a writer picks decides how much a reader actually sees. Walked and stomped describe the same trip down the hall, but only one of them shows the mood. This writing with verbs worksheet gives third graders eight chances to make that choice on purpose. In the first half, three close verbs sit above each sentence and students write the one the sentence really needs — the clue is always in the words around the blank, so strolled, raced and limped cannot all be right for a child who is late for the bus.
The second half turns the same skill around. Four short sentences are printed with a tired, ordinary verb underlined, and a word box holds four stronger verbs. Students read the sentence, decide what is really happening in it, and write the better verb on the line below. Because the box on this writing with verbs worksheet holds exactly four words for four sentences, every choice has to be earned by the sentence rather than guessed, and the box words never sit in the same order as the answers.
What’s Included
- 1 print-ready PDF worksheet
- Answer key
- 4 choose-the-best-verb sentences and 4 replace-the-tired-verb sentences with a word box
Three things make this 3rd grade parts of speech worksheet worth the fifteen minutes it takes. First, students write the verb instead of circling it, so the word goes through their hand and not just their eye. Second, every blank on the page is the same length, so nothing in the layout hints at which answer is long or short. Third, the two halves ask for opposite moves — choose the exact verb, then upgrade a dull one — which is the same pair of decisions a writing rubric asks a student to make in their own paragraphs.
Ways to Use It
- Read each set of three verbs aloud and ask what each one makes you picture.
- Have students explain why the two verbs they did not choose do not fit.
- Use the word box half as an exit ticket after a lesson on strong writing.
- Ask students to rewrite one sentence from their own journal with a stronger verb.
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