Georgia 4.L.GC.1.44
The Standard
Grammar: Form and use participles. (Introduce)
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Language (L) · Grammar Conventions
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students make the -ing form and common past participle forms of verbs, including irregular forms such as gone and written. They use them with helping verbs and to describe nouns.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given a base verb, a student produces the correct form and uses it in a complete sentence. The student can write is running, has written, and the cracked screen correctly.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often write has went or has wrote because they substitute simple past forms for past participles. They may omit a helping verb, as in She running. They may also write runing or stoped.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Complete “Maya is ___ to school” using skip and “Maya has ___ home” using go. Underline each complete verb phrase.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs sentence strips with subjects, helping verbs, and verb forms; students build correct sentences and explain each choice.
Ask students to describe a storm scene using one present participle and one past participle, then underline both.
Play Participle Match: students pair base verb cards with forms such as running, carried, and broken, then use each pair in a sentence.
Use local news photo captions; students revise each caption to include a clear participle, such as flooded streets or cheering fans.
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