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Verb Tenses HandoutVerb Tenses Handout
Publisher
St. Louis Community College
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Grade
5th - 12th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Instructional Strategy
Direct Instruction
Year
2004
Handout

Verb Tenses

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Help your pupils keep their simple, perfect, and progressive tenses straight with a reference page. Each verb tense is paired with a definition and at least one sample sentence.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

verb tenses, the simple present tense, the present progressive tense, the present perfect tense, the simple past tense, the past continuous tense, the future tense, the future progressive tense, the future perfect tense, the present perfect progressive tense, the past progressive tense, the past perfect tense, the past perfect progressive tense, the future perfect progressive tense

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Provide this at the beginning of the year for reference or hand it out when you go over these verb tenses as a class
  • When you first hand this out, have learners underline or highlight the verbs in each sentence and point out the different parts (the endings, participles, etc.)

Classroom Considerations

  • Your class will need to know what a participle is in order to fully understand the definitions
  • This is just a reference page and does not provide any activities

Pros

  • The tenses are clearly spelled out
  • Learners will appreciate the example sentences 

Cons

  • None

Common Core

L.5.1.a L.6.1.a L.7.1.a L.8.1.a L.9-10.1.a L.11-12.1.a

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