Review Irregular Verb Tenses During Writing Stations!

This is the perfect resource to enhance your reading and writing instruction in the classroom. This activity has students reading and identifying the past, present, and future tenses of irregular verbs. With a fun butterfly-themed format, students will match present-tense irregular verbs with their past and future-tense counterparts.

To play, students will lay out the present tense butterfly cards on the table. Then they will use the remaining wing cards to identify the past and future tense forms that correspond to each present tense card.

This activity will help students demonstrate their ability to identify and use past, present, and future tense forms of irregular verbs.

Irregular vs Regular Verb Tense – What’s the Difference?

Learning the difference between regular and irregular verbs will help your students to ensure they are choosing the correct verb for their sentence writing. Regular verbs are the easier of the two to learn as they follow a consistent pattern when it comes to their past and present tense. Most of the time, you simply need to add ‘-ed’ to the base form. For example: walk is the base form, past tense is walked. Irregular verbs are exactly that – irregular when it comes to their tense, and students just need to learn the differences. For example, go is the base form, the past tense is – went and the past participle is gone.

Using match up activities like this will add to your lesson planning and learning of irregular and regular verbs.

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