1. Action Verbs and Informational Text Elements
Day 7
Action Verbs and Informational Text Elements

2. Objectives:
Identify and understand informational text elements present in a nonfiction text.
Utilize informational text elements to discern an main idea.
Homework:
VCR 1b
Week 1 Close Reading due Friday

3. Agenda Warm Up Vocabulary 1B Action Verbs Verbs Practice
Informational text elements
Disney Vaccine Article

4. Warm Up
Identify the verbs in the following sentences as action or linking. Put all prepositional phrases in ( ).
He ran into the store.
Mary thinks about grammar everyday.
Ahmed is a student.

5. Vocabulary 1B
Take out your VCR books and begin working on exercise 1B.
You will have 10 minutes.
I will come around to check 1A.

6. Informational Text Elements
What do they really show us?

9. Page 242
Listen and read “Who Killed the Iceman?” Annotate for the questions on the sides of your book. Click

10. Verbs

11. Verbs
A verb is a word that expresses action or a state of being and is necessary to make a statement.
Ex: I am free. (Am is the verb as it is a state of being.)
“Real” Verbs are separated into:
Action
Linking
There is also a verb-like type called helping verbs.

12. Action Verbs
Action verbs tell what a person or thing does. They can express mental or physical action.
Ex: The dog barked all day. (physical action)
Ex: He thought about the dog all day. (mental action)

13. Linking Verbs
A linking verb joins the subject of a sentence with a word or expression that identifies or describes the subject.
Expresses a state of being.
All forms of the verb to be are linking verbs.
Ex: The teacher is cranky. (Is links cranky to teacher.)

14. Handy Tip for Linking Verbs
Linking verbs are like the equal signs of language. (=)
Any verb that can be replaced with is, am, are, be, become, or becomes to create a sentence with nearly the same meaning is a linking verb.

15. We celebrated the Chinese New Year.
Action or Linking Verb?
action
We celebrated the Chinese New Year.
The holiday is usually in February.
linking
#1 Identify the verb.
#2 Action or state of being?
#3 Action=action verb & state of being = linking verb

16. John looked through the binoculars.
Action or Linking Verb?
linking
John looked tired.
John looked through the binoculars.
action
#1 Identify the verb.
#2 Action or state of being?
#3 Action=action verb & state of being = linking verb

17. Remain in your seats until the end of class. Remain calm.
Action or Linking Verb?
action
Remain in your seats until the end of class.
Remain calm.
linking
#1 Identify the verb.
#2 Action or state of being?
#3 Action=action verb & state of being = linking verb

18. Action or Linking Verb? Your Turn!
Any verb that can be replaced with is, am, are, be, become, or becomes to create a sentence with nearly the same meaning is a linking verb.
The sky looks blue.
I walked home.
Our teacher seemed crazy.

19. Group Exercise – Identify and label verbs
Active Active
Active
Linking
Amy and I go outside and begin our chores.
The red ants fought the black ants.
Salmon actually swim upstream.
Fiona is Irish.
One well-known Irish American was President John F. Kennedy.
This is a story about an iceman.
His ideas were new and exciting.

20. Group Exercise – Verb Worksheet
Get into your 4 person groups and take a worksheet. Each person needs to complete sections A-D. You will have 15 minutes to complete. Whatever you do not finish is homework.

21. Closure
List three things you learned about nonfiction today. Describe two of the steps needed to understand nonfiction. Compose one question you still have regarding nonfiction.