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1st - 5th Grade Past Tense Verbs Resources : Page 2

Spot the past tense! Present and past tense verbs are listed on the page and it's up to you and your child to match the right words together.

Spot Past Tense

In this hands-on worksheet, children will cut and paste each sentence into the correct verb tense column.&nbsp;

Make a Splash! Verb Tense

Most 2nd graders use a basic sentence structure, and that's okay! Let your child have some fun completing these sentences while learning nouns and verbs.

Complete the Sentence

As students become more sophisticated writers, they begin to understand that words have different “jobs” in a sentence. These jobs can be thought of as parts of speech. In this word study unit, students will learn about the work that transition words, prepositions, verbs, adverbs and adjectives do. Students will also explore how certain kinds of words work together, like verbs and adverbs.

Grammar 3

Irregular past tense verbs are tricky, but a little practice can go a long way! Use this worksheet to help your students understand how to use those tricky words in context.

Irregular Past Tense Verbs #1

This worksheet puts an island adventure twist on basic past tense practice.

Past Tense Quicksand

Learn about the action verb "eat" and how it changes when written in past tense versus present tense.

Past and Present Tense

Word detectives use their savvy to sleuth out verbs in this engaging grammar worksheet.

Find the Verbs

Check out this chart that takes the suffix -ed for a spin along with past tense sounds. Do you know what sound -ed makes?

Past Tense -ed Sounds

Adding “ed” to the end of a word can make three different sounds (t, d, and ed). Help students understand the different sounds through this sorting activity.

What Does -ed Say?

Learning common constructions for words is one way that third graders can get traction on their spelling and reading comprehension skills. This guided lesson in word structure introduces kids to the idea that most words are made up of smaller words, and provides opportunities to apply this learning with practical examples. For more printable practice with word structure, check out our recommended worksheets.

Word Structure 1

Use this resource to help your students form past tense verbs.

It’s Grammar Time: Past Tense Verbs

Ask your first grader to practice converting sentences to past tense, giving him valuable practice with the past verb tense.

Get into Grammar: Past Tense

Are your second graders struggling with irregular past tense verbs? Not to worry! Use this practice worksheet to help your students confidently use those tricky words in context.

Irregular Past Tense Verbs #2

Get into the action with this practice worksheet on present and past tense verbs.

Present and Past Tense Verbs

This worksheet is a fun, creative way to support students as they learn to identify and use verb tenses. 

Past, Present, or Future Tense? 1

Learners practice using the past, present, and future forms of five verbs in this useful grammar and mechanics exercise.

Verb Tense #1

Use this resource to help your students identify and explain the problem in a passage using past tense verbs.

Explain the Problem

This mid-year assessment will give you an of idea how well your students know their coordinating conjunctions, irregular verbs and plural nouns, and regular verb tenses.

Mixed Skills Word Study Check-In

Help your second grader learn the difference between "saw" and "seen", a great way to teach her about participles and verb tenses.

"Saw" or "Seen"

Verbs do a lot of the heavy lifting in good writing. Understanding the different kinds of verbs and how they are used enables students to write more compellingly. Students will explore how tenses work and how they must agree with and sometimes work together with other words in the sentence. Students will also learn about adverbs, the "sister" part of speech that enhance, or modify, verbs.

Verbs and Adverbs 2

Help your third grader master the present and past tenses of this important verb with this conjugation worksheet.

Grammar Basics: Using the Verb To Be

Verbs and adverbs are the action heros of the language arts world. Third graders will be learning how to use these parts of speech this year, and you can support them with this guided lesson. Written by curriculum experts, this lesson provides kids with grammar instruction and plenty of examples of verbs and adverbs. For more printable practice with verbs and adverbs, check out the accompanying worksheets.

Verbs and Adverbs 1

Kids read words with the suffix -ed, and practice their handwriting by writing them in the blanks to make sentences.

Words Ending in "-ed"

Looking for a worksheet to help your kid with irregular past-tense verbs? This printable practices verb conjugation skills.

Past Tense Practice

Irregular verbs can be tricky! Use this grid, which is partially filled with irregular verbs, to find the missing tenses.

Those Oddballs: Irregular Verb Tense

Take action with grammar practice! Beginning readers will get some great practice identifying the action verbs in each of these sentences.

Action Words #1

Students will practice converting verbs from past to present to future tense in statements that reveal truths about their lives.

Life Changes

This word play lesson teaches second graders about diphthongs (ow, ou, oi, oy and ew words) and tricky plural nouns (geese, feet, mice). It also introduces kids to the bossy R rule, which states that when the letter r follows a vowel it changes the way the word is pronouced, for example far, car, and fur. These rules can help second graders advance their reading fluency and spelling skills.

Word Play

Help kids get into the Halloween spirit by using their grammar skills to create a silly story.

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