Irregular Past Tense in a Windy Day Story

Introduce the skill with a brief whole-class activity, such as calling out examples and asking students to give a thumbs up when they hear past tense verbs in a sentence. Then let students work through the first item together as a class, then finish the rest independently or with a partner, referring to a class anchor chart if one is available. When reviewing answers, ask students to explain why an answer is correct rather than just confirming it. These past tense verbs worksheets work well as a focused practice activity, a homework assignment, or a warm-up at the start of a language arts lesson.

Read a short windy day story and write the past tense of 6 verbs like wake, blow and fall. An irregular verb changes to a new word in the past tense. Example: is changes to was. The directions on the page read: Read each sentence of the story. Then, write the past tense of the verb in () on the line. Then, use the Word Bank to check your spelling. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 1st Grade verbs, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with past tense verbs. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

It is a verb that changes to a new word in the past tense instead of adding ed, like go and went or eat and ate. Four pages practice verbs like ran, sat, came, swam, wrote and fell.

Say the verb in a sentence that starts with Yesterday. If ed sounds right, as in Yesterday I jumped, the verb adds ed. If not, it changes to a new word. The sort page puts 12 verbs like walked, dug and said into these two groups.

6 of the 10 sheets have an answer key, including all 4 irregular past tense pages.