Identify Verbs Worksheet: Color Every Action Word

About this worksheet

Fifteen line-art apples on a branch-and-grass border, each holding one word, and the instruction is to color only the apples with an action word in them. Eight are verbs: jump, sing, climb, read, hop, laugh, clap and drink. Seven are not: apple, moon, happy, sock, blue, truck and chair.

The distractors are chosen rather than random. Five are concrete nouns a first grader can picture, but two are adjectives, and happy and blue are exactly where children slip, because a word that describes feels like a word that does. Getting those two wrong is the useful mistake on this page, and it is worth stopping on when you check the answers.

What students will practice

• Tell a verb from a noun or an adjective
• Sort words with no picture support
• Color only the words that pass the test

Details

Grade level

Grade 1

Subject

Reading · Grammar

Pages

1

Format

PDF · US Letter and A4 included

License

Free for classroom use · Attribution appreciated

Last updated

August 4, 2026