This Prompt's Title:
The Verb Game
for Kids
choosing interesting verbs to tell a story
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What interesting action words (verbs) can you use in your story writing?
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Ideas for Teachers from Teachers
How do you teach young writers to use stronger verbs when writing stories?
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 I love sharing Brian Cleary's picture book To Root to Toot to Parachute: What Is a Verb? I use it when teaching students to brainstorm all the wonderful verbs they know but don't realize they know. It helps me stop them from using went and got too often in their writing.
--Corbett Harrison, Reno, Nevada
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