4.11.D.ii
The Standard
past tense of irregular verbs
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 locate verbs that describe actions in the past. They correct irregular forms, such as changing “go” to “went” rather than “goed.”
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students find incorrect irregular past-tense verbs while rereading a draft. They replace them with correct forms and use those forms accurately in their own sentences.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may add “-ed” to every verb and write forms such as “goed,” “runned,” or “buyed.” They may also confuse past forms with past participles, such as using “seen” instead of “saw.”
How to Assess It
- Give students this exit ticket: “Yesterday, Mia goed to the store and buyed apples. Rewrite the sentence using correct past-tense verbs.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs verb cards such as go, went, bring, and brought; students match present and past forms, then fix two draft sentences.
Ask students to explain why “goed” sounds logical but is not standard, then write a sentence using “went” correctly.
Play Irregular Verb Relay: teams replace present-tense verbs on sentence cards with correct past-tense forms and earn points for accurate spelling.
Edit a short class news report about yesterday, replacing errors such as “buyed” and “teached” with “bought” and “taught.”
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