This document provides teaching materials about verbs for a Year 1 class. It includes a PowerPoint presentation with examples and exercises to help students understand that verbs are action words. The presentation covers identifying verbs in sentences and pictures, finding verbs that match images, and correcting non-verbs. It aims to teach students the basic concept that verbs are "doing words".

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Year 1 – Autumn Block 3 – Word Classes – Verbs
About This Resource:
This PowerPoint has been designed to support your teaching of this small step. It includes a starter activity and an
example of each question from the Varied Fluency and Application and Reasoning resources also provided in this
pack. You can choose to work through all examples provided or a selection of them depending on the needs of
your class.
Teaching note: We recommend teaching the terminology of verb in Year 1 so that children understand the
difference between the word types and the jobs that they have within sentences. The resources for this step will
include the terminology of verb.
More resources from our Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling scheme of work.
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Notes and Guidance
• In this step, children will learn about verbs. For now, children will learn that verbs are actions (doing words).
• Verbs are words that can be done and include a wide variety of examples, including: look, walk, run, sit,
stand, said, play, shout, cry, eat.
• Children should be able to identify words as being verbs depending on whether it is an action or not.
Focused Questions
• Is table a verb? How do you know?
• What actions have you done today? Are these words verbs?
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Step 2: Verbs
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Introduction
Name five actions that you can see in the picture below.

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Introduction
Name five actions that you can see in the picture below.
Various answers, for example: playing, skipping, drawing, riding,
kicking.

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Varied Fluency 1
Circle the verb that matches each picture.
points sprinted
collect
agrees perform
reached

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Varied Fluency 1
Circle the verb that matches each picture.
points sprinted
collect
agrees perform
reached

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Varied Fluency 2
What verb matches the picture below? It begins with the letter ‘w’.
w______

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Varied Fluency 2
What verb matches the picture below? It begins with the letter ‘w’.
w______
atch

11. Varied Fluency 3
Circle all of the verbs below.
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switch angry
sheep relax
untied woman

12. Varied Fluency 3
Circle all of the verbs below.
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switch angry
sheep relax
untied woman

13. Application 1
The words below should all be verbs.
Find the mistake. Correct it with a verb of your own.
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unlock
lemon
worries

14. Application 1
The words below should all be verbs.
Find the mistake. Correct it with a verb of your own.
Various answers, for example: shock.
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unlock
lemon
worries

15. Application 2
Which verb below makes the most sense with the noun ‘stain’?
Write down another verb which makes sense with ‘stain’.
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order
clean

16. Application 2
Which verb below makes the most sense with the noun ‘stain’?
Write down another verb which makes sense with ‘stain’.
Various answers, for example: wash.
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order
clean

17. Reasoning 1
Which of the words below is a verb?
Explain how you know.
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stretch
stinky

18. Reasoning 1
Which of the words below is a verb?
Explain how you know.
Stretch is a verb, because…
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stretch
stinky

19. Reasoning 1
Which of the words below is a verb?
Explain how you know.
Stretch is a verb, because it is an action you can do. Stinky is not.
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stretch
stinky