Georgia 5.L.GC.1.43
The Standard
Grammar: Form and use the progressive, perfect, and perfect progressive verb aspects. (Continue)
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 build verb phrases with the correct helping verbs, participles, and ing forms. They choose forms that show an action in progress, before a reference time, or continuing over a span of time. They match the helping verb to the subject and time.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can change a base verb into forms such as was running, has run, and will have been running. The student can choose the form that fits a timeline and explain how it changes the action's timing or duration.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often omit a helping verb, as in 'She running,' or combine the wrong forms, as in 'She has been ran.' They may write 'has went' or treat 'has worked' and 'has been working' as having exactly the same time meaning.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Rewrite 'Lena studies' three ways to show happening now, completed before another event, and continuing since Monday. Underline each helping verb and circle the main verb.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs word cards for is, has, had, been, walked, and walking, then have them build phrases and place each on a timeline.
Ask partners to compare 'Nia painted,' 'Nia has painted,' and 'Nia has been painting,' then explain what each says about time.
Call out a base verb and time clue, such as since noon; teams race to write and label the matching verb phrase.
Use a live weather report; students write one progressive, one perfect, and one perfect progressive sentence about changing conditions.
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