Year 3 Vivid Verbs Unit | Worksheets, Activities & Assessment

Build stronger grammar and writing skills with this comprehensive Year 3 Vivid Verbs unit. The ready-to-teach sequence helps students understand how precise verb choices create clearer, more engaging sentences.

Students explore doing, saying, thinking and relating verbs, then apply their knowledge through sentence improvement, dialogue, classification and tense activities. The unit progresses from recognising verbs to using them creatively and accurately in context.

What’s Included

• Complete Vivid Verbs unit plan
• Vivid Verbs teaching presentation
• Verbs classroom display
• Fifteen worksheets covering verb identification, sentence improvement, speech and thought verbs, relating verbs, past, present and future tense, sorting and verb-type challenges
• Interactive Verb Time Splash game
• Verb Checkup assessment
• Verbs assessment rubric

Learning Focus

• Identify verbs and explain their role in sentences
• Use vivid and precise verbs to improve writing
• Recognise doing, saying, thinking and relating verbs
• Apply past, present and future tense accurately
• Classify verb types and select effective verbs in context
• Strengthen vocabulary, grammar and sentence writing

Classroom Use

Suitable for Year 3 whole-class English lessons, literacy rotations, small groups, independent practice, intervention, revision and assessment.

Curriculum Alignment

Australian Curriculum v9.0: AC9E3LA07, AC9E3LA08, AC9E3LA09

Australian Curriculum v8.4: ACELA1482, ACELA1483

Victorian Curriculum 2.0: VC2E3LA07, VC2E3LA08, VC2E3LA10

NSW: EN2-RECOM-01, EN2-OLC-01, EN2-VOCAB-01

Western Australia: WA3ELALA2, WA3ELALA3, WA3ELALA4

Common Core: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1.a, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1.d, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1.e, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1.b, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1.c, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.3.a, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.5, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.5, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.2.a

United Kingdom: UK-LKS2-ENG-W-V, UK-LKS2-ENG-R-C

New Zealand: NZ-Y3-ENG-OL-VG-V-1, NZ-Y3-ENG-OL-VG-SSM-1, NZ-Y4-ENG-OL-VG-V-1, NZ-Y3-ENG-R-WR-D-1

TEKS: TEKS-ELAR-G3-11D, TEKS-ELAR-G3-10D, TEKS-ELAR-G3-1C, TEKS-ELAR-G3-10C, TEKS-ELAR-G3-9D, TEKS-ELAR-G3-7E

Canada: CAN-G3-LANG-B3.1, CAN-G3-LANG-B3.2, CAN-G3-LANG-B1.5, CAN-G3-LANG-C1.3, CAN-G3-LANG-C1.4, CAN-G3-LANG-C3.4

Answer information: An assessment rubric is included; a separate answer key is not supplied.

Format: Digital download supplied in PDF and Microsoft PowerPoint formats. The complete resource contains 71 pages/slides across the included files. No physical item will be shipped.