VC2E3LA07

understand how verbs represent different processes for doing, feeling, thinking, saying and relating

• exploring ‘doing’ and ‘saying’ verbs in narrative texts to understand how they give information about what characters do and say
• exploring the use of ‘sensing’ verbs and how they allow readers to understand what characters think and feel, for example ‘He remembered his first day at school.’
• exploring the use of ‘relating’ verbs in constructing definitions and descriptions; for example, identifying the relating verb ‘is’ or ‘are’, ‘has’ or ‘have’ in descriptions of animals
• identifying different types of verbs and the way that they control meaning in a clause