CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.1d
The Standard
Form and use regular and irregular verbs.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students change verbs to show when an action happens. They use expected past forms like played and carried, along with forms like went, ate, and saw.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students correctly write forms such as jumped, carried, went, saw, and brought. They choose a verb form that matches the time shown in the sentence.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may add -ed to every verb and write forms such as goed, runned, or eated. They may also mix present and past forms in one sentence.
How to Assess It
- Give this exit ticket: “Rewrite in the past tense: Mia walks to school, sees a dog, and brings it water.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs verb cards, such as jump and jumped or go and went, to match and sort by how the past form changes.
Ask students to explain why went is correct instead of goed, then write two sentences using went and played.
Play verb charades, then have teams earn points by saying and spelling the action verb in past tense.
Create a class news report about yesterday, requiring each student to include one regular and one irregular past tense verb.
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