Language Lessons Theme 3
Head, Body, Legs
An action verb is a word that shows action.
• An action verb shows what someone or something is
doing.
Isabel tells a story. Martin listens to Isabel.
• Some action verbs show actions you can see.
Habib reads a book.
• Some action verbs tell about actions that are hard to see.
Habib enjoys books about animals.
• An abbreviation is a short form of a word.
• Most titles of people are abbreviations.
• An abbreviation begins with a capital letter and ends
with a period.
Officer Buckle and Gloria
• The tense of a verb tells when the action takes place.
• Present-tense verbs tell about actions that happen now.
Josh plays ice hockey.
His mom watches to every game.
• A present-tense verb must agree with its subject.
• Add -s to most verbs if the subject is singular. Add -es
to verbs that end with s, ch, sh, x, or z.
The car stops for the red light.
• Do not add -s or -es if the subject is plural.
The children cross the street.
• Use commas to separate three or more words in a
series.
• Use and or or before the last word in a series.
We play sports in summer, winter, spring, and fall.
Super Croc
• Verbs can tell about actions that already happened.
• These verbs are in the past tense.
• Add -ed to most verbs to tell about an action in the past.
Our class learned about fossils last week.
Our class looked at dinosaurs yesterday.
• If a verb ends with one consonant, double the
consonant and add -ed.
The car stopped at the red light.
• If a verb ends with -e, drop the e and add -ed.
The car moved at the green light.
• Begin the greeting and closing in a letter with a capital
letter.
• Use a comma after the greeting of a letter.
• Use a comma after the closing of a letter.
Dancing as a Team
• The verb have has a special form in the present
tense.
• Use has when the subject is singular.
Pete has tap shoes.
• Use have when the subject is plural or I or you.
Marta and Joe have top hats.
I have a cane.
• The past-tense form of have is had.
• Use had in the past tense with any subject.
I had a dance recital.
My friends had fun watching me dance.
• Begin the first word and each important word in a book
title with a capital letter.
• Underline the title of a book.
A Very Young Dancer
Olivia Saves the Circus
Click Clack Moo
If two sentences have words that are the same,
you can combine them.
• You can combine sentences by joining words with and.
The horses eat hay. The horses play in the field.
The horses eat hay and play in the field.
• If sentences have subjects that are the same,
you can combine them.
• Sometimes you can combine sentences by joining two
predicates with and.
The cow slept. The cow ate.
The cow slept and ate.
• End statements and commands with a period.
• End a question with a question mark.
• End an exclamation with an exclamation mark.
Who will feed the pigs? Sarah will feed the pigs.
Feed the pigs now. Oh no, I spilled the food!