Time to Skip the Verb Tense Worksheets!

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 regular verbs. With a fun butterfly-themed format, students will match present-tense regular verbs with their past and future-tense counterparts.

Students will lay out the present-tense butterfly cards on the table to play. 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 regular verbs.

The Perfect Whole-Group or Small-Group Verb Tense Activity

In addition to individual student work time, use this activity to enhance learning through guided writing groups, whole class lessons, or remote learning assignments. 

Suppose you have a mixture of above and below-level learners and ELD students. In that case, we have a few suggestions for keeping students on track with these concepts: 

🆘 Support Struggling Students

Complete the activities as a whole group, encouraging students to interact with the lesson and talk about their learning.

Provide students with a present, future, and past tense verbs anchor chart for reference.

➕ Challenge Fast Finishers

Have students extend their learning by identifying verbs around the classroom and listing them on paper. Then, have them identify the past, present, and future tenses of those verbs.

Have students write sentences using the verbs presented in the activity.

Download Your Verb Tense Activity Today!

Use the dropdown icon on the Download button to download the Colour or Blackline PDF version of this resource. We have also included a fully editable Google Slides version should you need to edit or modify words.

This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher and Teach Starter Collaborator.

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