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Build confident verb knowledge through a balanced week of explicit teaching, movement, discussion, game play, independent practice and assessment. This Year 2 English unit helps students recognise what verbs tell us, identify verbs in sentences, distinguish nouns from verbs, use time clues to choose common verb forms and replace general verbs with precise choices.

The editable teaching presentation introduces action, thinking, saying, feeling and state verbs in age-appropriate language. Partner cards, a movement activity, two games and colour displays support oral rehearsal and classroom discussion. Six named worksheet resources provide sequenced independent practice, while a two-page assessment and five-level rubric support evidence-based marking.

Colour resources are ready for display and hands-on use. Worksheets, assessment pages and the rubric use a clear, low-ink black-and-white design. Matching answer pages are placed directly after meaningful student pages, with answers shown in red for efficient teacher checking.

What's Included

• Editable 16-slide PowerPoint presentation: Verbs

• Editable 22-slide PowerPoint quiz: Verbs Quiz, including 10 mixed-format question-and-answer pairs

• 28-page Unit Plan PDF with branded Table of Contents

• Verbs in Action classroom display

• Powerful Verb Choices classroom display

• Action Verb Reference Cards

• Movement Match Verb Cards

• Movement Match Picture Cards

• Verb Adventure Board Game

• I Have, Who Has? Verb Chain, two pages

• Worksheet 1: Spot the Action Verb

• Worksheet 2: Noun or Verb?

• Worksheet 3: Complete the Action

• Worksheet 4: Picture-Perfect Verbs

• Worksheet 5: Verb Detective

• Worksheet 6: Stronger Verb Choices, two pages

• Matching answer pages for all six worksheets

• Verb Skills Check assessment, two pages

• Matching answer pages for both assessment pages

• Verbs Yr 2 Rubric with Beginning, Developing, Achieving, Confident and Exceeding levels

Learning Focus

• Recognise verbs and explain their role

• Identify verbs in complete sentences

• Distinguish nouns from verbs

• Select meaningful verbs to complete sentences

• Use time clues and common past-tense forms

• Explore action, thinking, saying, feeling and state verbs

• Choose precise verbs to improve speaking and writing

Classroom Use

Use the presentation for whole-class teaching and shared practice. Add the reference cards and displays to an English learning wall. Run Movement Match, Verb Adventure and I Have, Who Has? during literacy rotations, partner work or revision. Use the worksheets for guided and independent practice, then complete the two-page assessment and rubric at the end of the sequence. Suggested duration: five lessons plus assessment, or approximately one teaching week.

Product Details

Year level: Year 2 / Grade 2
Subject: English
Topic: Verbs, verb forms, nouns and verbs, and precise verb choice

Curriculum Alignment

Australian Curriculum v9
AC9E2LA07

Australian Curriculum v8
ACELA1468

Victorian Curriculum
VC2E2LA07

NSW English K–10
EN1-RECOM-01; EN1-CWT-01

Western Australian Curriculum
WA2ELALA2

Common Core State Standards
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.1.a; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.1.b; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.1.e; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.1.f; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.3; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.4; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.4.a; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.4.d; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.5

England National Curriculum
UK-LKS2-ENG-W-V

New Zealand Curriculum
NZ-Y2-ENG-OL-VG-V-1; NZ-Y2-ENG-OL-VG-V-2; NZ-Y3-ENG-OL-VG-V-1; NZ-Y3-ENG-OL-VG-V-2

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills
TEKS-ELAR-G2-10D; TEKS-ELAR-G2-11B; TEKS-ELAR-G2-11D

Canadian Language Curriculum
CAN-G2-LANG-B3.1; CAN-G2-LANG-B3.2; CAN-G2-LANG-B3.3

Formats, Page Counts and Answers

Files: PDF and editable Microsoft PowerPoint PPTX
Count: 28 unit-plan pages plus 38 editable presentation and quiz slides (66 pages/slides in total)
Answer key: Included
Digital product: Yes

Teacher Benefits

• A sequenced unit with explicit teaching, practice and assessment

• Editable presentation and quiz text for classroom adaptation

• Multiple ways to rehearse vocabulary and grammar orally

• Low-ink student pages and clearly matched answer pages

• Support for whole-class, small-group, rotation and independent use

Digital Product and Licence

This is a digital product; no physical item will be shipped. Purchase permits use by the purchaser with their own class. Do not resell, redistribute, share publicly or upload the files to an open-access website. Additional educators require additional licences.