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
