1st Grade Action Verbs worksheets

About this worksheet

An action word, or verb, tells what someone or something does: hops, sings, spins, blows. Every sentence has one, and finding it is the first step to knowing whether a group of words is a whole sentence. On this grade 1 worksheet each line is a short sentence, and your child circles the action word from a row of words taken from the sentence.

Support sheets use simple actions such as jumps and cooks, standard sheets add longer sentences, and challenge sheets use less common actions such as glides and scatters. Ask your child to act each word out. If you can act it out, it is probably an action word.

What your child will learn

• Find the action word in a sentence
• Tell what someone or something does
• Act out a word to check it
• Tell an action word from a naming word

Common Core standard: L.1.1.E