CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1.1e
The Standard
Use verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future (e.g., Yesterday I walked home; Today I walk home; Tomorrow I will walk home).
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts
What This Standard Means
Students need to choose verb forms that show when something happens. They should connect time words like yesterday, today, and tomorrow with verbs such as walked, walk, and will walk. Keep the focus on meaning first, not grammar labels.
Mastery looks like a student saying and writing simple sentences that match the time. They can fix a sentence like “Yesterday I jump” to “Yesterday I jumped.” Students often get stuck with irregular verbs, like went, ate, and saw, or they overuse will for every future sentence.
Ways to Teach It
- Give students three cards labeled yesterday, today, and tomorrow, then have them sort action picture cards and say matching sentences aloud.
- Ask students to finish: Yesterday I ___, today I ___, and tomorrow I will ___, using the same action if possible.
- Read three sentences aloud, and have students hold up past, present, or future cards to show the verb time.
- Use the class schedule to write: We ate snack, we read now, and we will go to recess.
Plan a Lesson for CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.1.1e
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Related Standards
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.1c
Use verb tense to convey various times, sequences, states, and conditions.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.4.1b
Form and use the progressive (e.g., I was walking; I am walking; I will be walking) verb tenses.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.5.1b
Form and use the perfect (e.g., I had walked; I have walked; I will have walked) verb tenses.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.1e
Form and use the simple (e.g., I walked; I walk; I will walk) verb tenses.