Verb Power Boost: Elevate Your Writing with Stronger Verbs!

This set of four simple yet effective better choice verb poster and word mat is the perfect verb display addition to your classroom. During writing, it can be tricky for your students to come up with the most perfect verb to include in their sentences.

This pack includes the following visual aids to support your young writers:

• Ran synonyms
• Walk synonyms
• Look synonyms
• Said synonyms
• Laughed synonyms
• Verb word mat that lists the following verb groups: objects, emotions, thoughts, movement, voice and sense.

How to Use these Verb Posters in the Classroom

Increase your students’ strong verb vocabulary to bump up their writing. By displaying the following pack in the classroom or at writing stations – you are setting your students up for success when it comes to improving their writing. To begin with, it’s important to encourage students to look at displays or visual cues to help them with their writing. To do this, complete a few activities in the classroom using these visual cues:

• Get students to write down the main verb on the poster, ie. ran and then choose a stronger synonym such as rushed.
• Get students to pick a word they don’t really understand and have them look it up in the dictionary.
• Get students to write a list of all the words they don’t understand.
• Have students pick a word each day to put into a sentence.

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This resource was created by Lisamarie Del Valle, a teacher and a Teach Starter Collaborator.

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