Georgia 6.L.GC.1.44
The Standard
Grammar: Form and use participles. (Master)
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 form present participles and regular or irregular past participles. They use them as adjectives and within verb phrases to show actions or conditions.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students correctly form present and past participles, including common irregular forms. They use participles in verb phrases and as adjectives, as in “was running” and “the cracked screen.”
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume every word ending in -ing is a verb and every word ending in -ed shows past tense. They may confuse participles with gerunds or use incorrect forms such as “has went” instead of “has gone.”
How to Assess It
- Use this exit ticket: “Revise: The glass was broke by the falling branch.” Then underline both participles and label each as an adjective or part of a verb phrase.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs sentence strips to sort into present participles, past participles, and nonparticiples, then have them explain each choice.
Ask students to write two sentences using “bored” and “boring,” then discuss how each participle changes the meaning.
Play participle relay: call out a base verb, and teams write its present and past participles in correct sentences.
Have students find participles in product reviews, headlines, or school notices and explain what each one describes or helps express.
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