Day 15: Verb and adverb games for the holiday season

Learning grammar becomes easier when an element of fun is added to it.

It's like adding sprinkles to a donut! Introduce grammar concepts you want to teach your child through fun games, and they might just fall in love with the language. 

Verbs are words that describe an action (dance), occurrence (develop), or state of being (exist). For instance, let's look at the sentence: The kid was jumping in the park. Here, the word "jumping" describes the kid's action.

Adverbs describe a verb (an action or a doing word). For example, He ate his dinner quickly. Here, the word "quickly" is an adverb as it tells us about how he ate (the verb) his dinner.

So on the 15th day of our 25 days of learning series, here are three verb and adverb games. 

Three verb and adverb games

Creating a verb story

Start a sentence like: "The boy woke the sleeping dog.…" and ask your child to write or narrate a short story. After they complete writing it, ask them to underline the verbs they've used. You can award them one piece of candy for every five verbs.

Funny tongue twisters

Tongue twisters can be amusing. For instance, "I scream, you scream, together we all scream for ice cream." 

You can write this on a sheet of paper and have your child read it aloud and find the verbs in it. You can use many different tongue twisters and repeat this exercise. 

Acting out adverb questions

Adverbs often answer when, where, and how questions. You can then strike a pose, or act it out. Some sample sentences are:

The cat ran quickly.

How did the cat run? Quickly.

John ran daily.

How often did John run? Daily.

You can use more such examples and teach similar adverbs using everyday examples.

Games such as these can broaden their understanding of verbs and adverbs and create a playful learning experience. 

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