What is a Verb? (Grade 3)

🌟 What This Section is About
This section teaches students about verbs—the action words in a sentence. Verbs tell us what someone or something does, is, or feels. Students will learn how to identify verbs in a sentence and use them correctly in different tenses.

🎯 Learning Objectives
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:

Understand what a verb is.

Identify verbs in sentences.

Use action verbs to describe what someone or something does.

Recognize helping and linking verbs at a basic level.

Use verbs in past, present, and future tenses.

📚 Examples of Verbs
1. Action Verbs (show what someone or something does):
run, jump, eat, read, swim, sing
👉 The dog runs fast.

2. Helping Verbs (work with the main verb to show tense):
is, are, was, were, has, have
👉 She is running to school.

3. Linking Verbs (connect the subject to more information):
is, am, are, was, were, seem, become
👉 He is happy.

4. Tenses:
Present: walk, sing, play
👉 I play every day.

Past: walked, sang, played
👉 I played yesterday.

Future: will walk, will sing
👉 I will play tomorrow.

Fun Practice Activities
1. Activity Worksheet
2. Test Yourself: Interactive Practice Quiz

📝 Offline Homework
Verb Hunt

Read a short story and underline all the verbs.

Verb Sorting

Make a list of 10 verbs and sort them into past, present, and future.

Fill in the Verb

Fill in blanks with correct verbs in a sentence:
She ___ the ball. (kick/kicks/kicked)