CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.1d
The Standard
Form and use the past tense of frequently occurring irregular verbs (e.g., sat, hid, told).
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts
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What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students form the past tense of common verbs that do not follow the usual -ed pattern. They choose and use the correct forms when speaking and writing about past events.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students correctly change common verbs, such as go, sit, hide, and tell, into went, sat, hid, and told. They use these forms in complete sentences about past events.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often add -ed to every verb, producing forms such as goed, hided, or sitted. They may also use a present-tense verb after a past-time clue such as yesterday.
How to Assess It
- Give this exit ticket: “Rewrite each sentence to show it happened yesterday: I run. I sit. I hide. I tell a story.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs verb cards, such as sit and sat, then have students match each present-tense verb with its past-tense form.
Ask students to write three sentences answering, “What did you do yesterday?” and circle each past-tense verb.
Play Past-Tense Bingo using pairs such as go and went, run and ran, hide and hid, and tell and told.
Read a short class schedule from yesterday, then have students report what the class did using irregular past-tense verbs.
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