Past tense - Walk

• Students will form the past tense of regular verbs by adding -ed to the base form.
• Students will recognize and use common irregular past tense verbs (ran, ate, went, saw).
• Students will identify whether a sentence describes something happening now or something that already happened.

These past tense worksheets for 1st grade teach children how to show that an action already happened by changing the verb. Students practice adding -ed to regular verbs, using irregular past tense forms like "went" and "ran," and choosing the correct tense to complete sentences about pictures. Our verb tense worksheets for 1st grade make the concept of past versus present concrete by using familiar, everyday actions your child can picture. Mastering past tense verbs in 1st grade is a key step toward writing complete, varied sentences and understanding story timelines.

Start with a quick present-versus-past conversation: "Yesterday I walked to school. Today I walk to school. What changed?" Draw out the idea that the -ed ending is past tense's signal. On the worksheet, have your child say each sentence aloud in both forms before writing the answer. For irregular verbs, keep a running list of "sneaky verbs" on a sticky note, since these words do not follow the -ed rule and simply need to be memorized over time.

L.1.1e requires 1st graders to use verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future. Past tense worksheets directly address the past tense component of this standard, building the grammatical awareness children need to write and speak about events that have already occurred.