Using Artwork to find Vivid Verbs!

Want to keep practicing?

Keep Practicing These Skills with ALL Your Writing!

Here's another great image you can use to practice these skills! Describe this picture using all action verbs!

Important tip:

Remember, you can

always use Vivid Verbs in ANY kind of writing, and you'll see a

BIG difference!

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When we think about

Vivid Verbs, it's really

about asking yourself,

"What is the subject

DOING?"

Ask yourself, "What is the fire DOING in the picture? What action does it have?"

Vivid Verbs that show action make writing

COME ALIVE!

What is a Vivid Verb?

A Vivid Verb is a verb that shows ACTION!

• The bacon sizzles.
• Look at how she sprints down the street!
• That ball flew from his hands and sailed into the basket!
• She squealed as the roller coaster zoomed across the track.

Sentences that Put You to Sleep

Using Vivid Verbs

• It is cold.
• She can be mean.
• Those guys are funny.

Thanks for Watching!

What did you come up with?

Let's Look at the

Opposite of a Vivid Verb.

As a class, discuss some verbs that came to mind. Create two sentences describing the fire using verbs that you like.

Remember the verbs you want to avoid:

Am, Is, Are, Was, Were, Be, Being, Been, Could, Should, Would, Can, Might, May

Am, Is, Are, Was, Were, Be, Being, Been, Could,

Should, Would, Can, Might, May:

• examples of PASSIVE verbs that don't show ACTION in their sentences.

Instead, let's try for some Vivid Verbs!

To Make Your Writing

Come ALIVE

Let's apply this to our own writing!

Let's focus on the fire. Write down some vivid verbs that we could use to describe the fire.

Take a look at this painting:

In order to describe this painting, we could say:

• The wolf is over the fire.
• The fire is hot.
• The background is orange.
• The wolf is black.

For an added challenge:

Now, let's show off your skills!

Let's Wake These

Sentences Up!

What did you come up

with?

Write a paragraph that describes this picture

to someone who

has never seen it

before.

• The challenge:

Use ALL Vivid

Verbs!!

How do we describe the orange background without using a passive verb? How else can we describe the color without using "is"?

• I'm shivering from the cold!
• She smacks people and

always teases them!

• Those guys joke around all the time to make people laugh!

Maybe you wrote something like:

• The orange blazes in the background.
• Orange covers the background.
• The scene glows orange from the lights of the fire.

What is the color DOING?

Write down some thoughts.

These sentences give you

a picture in your head.

You can see the action!