2.11.D.ii
The Standard
past, present, and future verb tense
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading · The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions.
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students reread drafts and check whether each verb matches when the action happens. They revise verb forms to show actions that already happened, happen now, or will happen later.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can spot a verb that gives the wrong time signal and replace it with the correct form. The student keeps verb time consistent unless events occur at different times.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often switch verb time within a paragraph without a reason. They may write forms such as goed or combine will with a past verb.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Correct the verbs in these sentences: Yesterday I walk to school. Every day I walked home. Tomorrow I played outside.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs time cards labeled yesterday, today, and tomorrow, then have them sort sentence strips and fix each verb.
Ask students to explain why the verbs change in these sentences: I play today, I played yesterday, and I will play tomorrow.
Play Verb Time Relay: Teams draw a time card, rewrite a base sentence for that time, and earn a point for accuracy.
Have students write three calendar notes about something they did, do, and plan to do, then circle each verb.
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