Year 5 Action words worksheet

“Words for wet things” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 5 English unit “Action words”, for children aged 9 to 10, and takes about 21 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 13 to 14 of the year, 8 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Words for wet things

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 5 · English · about 21 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can tell an adjective from a verb in the word submerged.

A Look back3 min

1.
Circle the verb in 'The kite flew high.'
kiteflewhigh
2.
Circle the word that means the same as 'happy'.
gladsadangry
3.
Circle the noun in 'the bright lamp.'
brightlampthe

B Watch me, then you4 min

A diver writes about a boat on a lake bed. Is 'submerged' describing something, or saying what someone does?

A small rowing boat resting on the bed of a calm, clear lake

Watch me

The lake was calm and the submerged boat lay on the mud.

Does submerged describe the boat? Yes.

So submerged is an adjective.

Now you

1.
In 'The submerged cave was cold', what word class is submerged? Circle one.
adjectiveverb
2.
Mia wrote: 'I submerged the spoon.' What word class is submerged here? Circle one.
adjectiveverb

C Your turn6 min

Circle the word that fits each sentence. Each new sentence changes one thing.

1.
The ___ boat lay on the lake bed. Circle one.
submergedsubmerge
2.
Ali will ___ the cup in the bucket. Circle one.
submergesubmerged
3.
Last week Ali ___ the cup in the bucket. Circle one.
submergesubmerged
4.
Last week the ___ cup was in the bucket. Circle one.
submergesubmerged

Say it out loud: Which word describes a thing, and which word says what someone does? What changed from one sentence to the next?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A metal bucket standing on the paved edge of a garden pool

Kit says: “I will submerged the bucket in the pool.”

1.
Kit needs a doing word after 'will'. Which word should Kit use? Circle one.
submergesubmergedsubmerging

E Think deeper4 min

1.
Write one sentence where submerged describes a noun. Write one sentence where submerge is a doing word. Tell your grown-up how you know which is which.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Words for wet things · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. flew 'Kite' is a naming word, so it is a noun. 'Flew' says what the kite did, so it is the verb. Ask: which word tells you an action?

2. glad 'Sad' is the opposite of happy, not a synonym. Ask your child which word sits nearest to happy on the sunny end of the scale.

3. lamp 'Bright' describes the lamp, so it is an adjective. A noun names a thing, so the lamp is the noun. Point to the thing being named.

B

1. adjective

2. verb Mia is telling us what she did to the spoon, so it is a doing word. Ask your child: is the word describing a thing, or saying an action?

C

1. submerged 'Submerge' is a doing word, and a boat cannot do that here. Ask your child: which word describes the boat?

2. submerge 'Will' tells us Ali has not done it yet. After 'will', use the base form, so the doing word is submerge.

3. submerged 'Submerge' is the present form. 'Last week' tells us it happened in the past, so the verb is submerged.

4. submerged 'Submerge' cannot describe the cup here. Ask your child: is the word describing the cup, so it is an adjective?

D

1. submerge If the child picks submerged, they think it is the verb after will. Say: after 'will', use the base word without -d, which is submerge.

E

1. Look for: Two sentences: one where submerged describes a noun (an adjective), and one where submerge or submerged is a doing word, plus a reason for each choice.

Words to use

Say“Does the word describe a thing, or does it say what someone does? Show me how you know.”

Instead of“That's wrong, just pick the other one.”

After the sheet

Fill a jar halfway with water and ask your child to drop in a coin. They say one sentence about the coin using submerged. Ask whether the word describes the coin or what they did.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

7 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Battle words beyond battles(with a plan)
Looking and seeing words(with a plan)
Chaos words, sorted(with a plan)
Words for rest and laziness(with a plan)
Stronger words for hard work(with a plan)
Verbs that run(with a plan)
Walking words(with a plan)

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