Past Tense Verbs Lesson Plans

Verb Tenses: Past, Present, Future

Help your English language learners master effective communication with this lesson, which covers the past, present, and future verb tenses. From reading to writing, kids will get the practice they need to communicate here.

4th grade

Reading & writing

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Learning About Words: Past Tense

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Learning About Words: Past Tense

Use a playful theater activity to teach your first graders how to change a verb from the present to the past tense.

1st grade

Reading & writing

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Present Perfect Tense

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Present Perfect Tense

Have your students heard about participles and tenses? This fun lesson teaches students about conjugating verbs and forming sentences.

5th grade

Reading & writing

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Juggling Verb Tense

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Juggling Verb Tense

Verbs are the only kind of word that have tenses. Some of them are standard and easy to learn, while others are irregular and tricky. This lesson will review verb tense changes that follow the regular pattern and those oddballs that don't.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Learning About Words: The Sounds of -ed

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Learning About Words: The Sounds of -ed

Use a letter writing activity to teach your first graders about the three different ending sounds of past tense verbs.

1st grade

Reading & writing

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Double It!: A Lesson on Suffixes and Changing Verb Tense

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Double It!: A Lesson on Suffixes and Changing Verb Tense

This lesson won’t be double trouble! Your students will learn how to correctly double consonants to form past tense verbs. Students will be able to read and write verbs that do and don’t have double consonants.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Making a Verb Verdict

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Making a Verb Verdict

It’s time to make some verb verdicts! In this lesson, your students will decide if present tense verbs have been correctly changed to reflect the past tense. A focal point of this lesson is the use of irregular verbs. The jury is out!

5th grade

Reading & writing

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Discovering Character Traits

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Discovering Character Traits

This lesson will have your EL students exploring characters' dialogue and actions to determine their personality traits! Use it on its own or as a support lesson.

4th grade

Reading & writing

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From Present to Past: Verbs with a “Y”

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From Present to Past: Verbs with a “Y”

Do your students struggle with changing “y” verbs from present to past tense? Use this lesson to help your students transform the “-y” verbs that don’t follow the typical “add -ed” rule.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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What Was the Problem?

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What Was the Problem?

Use this lesson to teach your students to use the correct past tense language when speaking about a story they have read. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the *Fiction Comprehension: Problem and Solution* lesson.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Back in the Day

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Back in the Day

Let’s share about ourselves! Students learn about past-tense verbs by writing a story about their past.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

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Past Tense Verbs Lesson Plans

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