Verbs

In the "non-past" (that is, the present and future), Russian verbs inflect (change) for Person and Number. There are two main conjugation types, called Type I and Type II, which are distinguished by the vowel used in the endings. Endings are added to the stem, which is generally the infinitive less the ТЬ ending.

(Thus, as for nouns, when we say we are "adding an ending" what we are doing is actually changing one, or replacing one - in this case, replacing the infinitive ending with the present-tense one.)

The textbook uses "Type IB" for verbs whose stems undergo a mutation (change) making them hard to detect in the infinitive.

The basic endings are -У -ЕШЬ -ЕТ, -ЕМ -ЕТЕ -УТЬ for Type I, and -У- ИШЬ -ИТ, -ИМ -ИТЕ -АТЬ for Type II. The У and A may be written as Ю and Я if the preceding letter is a soft consonant or another vowel, and the ET will be ËT if stressed

Verbs we have encountered so far:

Infinitive	Я	ТЫ	ОН ОНА ОНО	МЫ	ВЫ	ОНИ
Type I (regular stems)
читать read	читаю	читаешь	читает	читаем	читаете	читают
знать know	знаю	знаешь	знает	знаем	знаете	знают
изучать study	изучаю	изучаешь	изучает	изучаем	изучаете	изучают
Type II
говорить talk	говорю	говоришь	говорит	говорите	говорим	говорят
курить smoke	курю	куришь	курит	курите	курим	курят
Type IB (irregular stems)
ехать go, ride	еду	едешь	едет	едем	едете	едут
жить live	живу	живëшь	живëт	живëм	живëте	живут
звать call	зову	зовëшь	зовëт	зовëм	зовëте	зовут

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Resources:
A web tool for conjugating verbs
From Master Russian, the 500 most common verbs fully conjugated: alphabetical list and list by how common they are
Russian Lessons.net's list of 36 common verbs in all their forms
Master Russian's lessons on verbs
Russian for Everyone's lessons on verbs
Andrey Zaliznyak's (rather complicated) Classification of Russian Verbs