Doing, thinking and saying verbs
Understand how verbs represent different processes: doing (action), feeling and thinking (sensing), saying, and relating (being and having)
Lesson
Set out your lesson
“Doing, thinking and saying verbs means practising the idea at the table with a short text or prompt and one clear check. We will demo once, then your child tries.”
Bring to the table
- Sentence strips or sticky notes
- Pencil
Extra for the adult
Worked example. In “The dogs run,” adult underlines the plural noun “dogs.”
Optional challenge. For Doing, thinking and saying verbs, add one harder example after success.
What to notice. Keep one parent note: examples tried; results; support used. This session samples Doing, thinking and saying verbs, not mastery.
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Student Center Activities
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Student Center Activities supports Doing, thinking and saying verbs. An adult previews and guides; this is a learning page, not a scored quiz.
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Check understanding
- Sort verbs from a story into doing (ran, built), feeling/thinking (loved, wondered), saying (whispered, asked) and relating (is, has, seems)
- Explain how a saying verb like 'whispered' or 'shouted' tells the reader more than 'said'
- Identify the relating verbs in an information report (e.g. 'Koalas are marsupials', 'They have sharp claws') and explain why reports use many of them
“Can your child tell the difference between action words like 'ran', thinking or feeling words like 'wondered', saying words like 'whispered', and 'being' words like 'is' and 'has'?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- English
- Domain
- Grammar & Punctuation
- Age range
- Ages 8–9
Standards