Georgia K.L.GC.1.6
The Standard
Grammar: Form and use verbs by adding -ing, -ed, or -s. (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 change a familiar action word to show an action happening now, already finished, or done by one person or thing. They use forms such as jumping, jumped, and jumps in spoken and written sentences.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can turn jump into jumping, jumped, and jumps. The student chooses the correct form for sentences about now, yesterday, and everyday actions.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may say “The dog jumping” and leave out is. They may mismatch time clues and verb forms, as in “Yesterday he jumps.” Some add endings twice, such as “jumpeded,” or forget the ending in “She jump.”
How to Assess It
- Show a picture of a child jumping. Ask students to complete: “Now she is ___,” “Yesterday she ___,” and “Every day she ___.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs base verb cards and ending tiles; students build jumping, jumped, and jumps, then act out each meaning.
Ask, “What did you do at recess, what are you doing now, and what does your teacher do each day?”
Play Verb Sort: students place sentence cards under Now, Yesterday, or Every Day, then read each sentence aloud.
Create a class job chart with sentences such as “Mia passes papers,” then compare each job with what happened yesterday.
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