Past, present, and future verbs worksheets

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Verbs tell time: walked already happened, walks is happening, will walk hasn't happened yet.

Three grades, each its own sheet. Print one here, or open a grade for examples and teaching notes.

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1st grade

Examples and teaching notes

Verbs carry the time of a sentence: jumped is past, jumps is present, will jump is future. First graders sort verbs into yesterday, today, and tomorrow piles, which turns an abstract idea into something they can physically do.
2nd grade Core grade

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Every verb tells when: the past (walked, sang), the present (walks, sings), or the future (will walk, will sing). Second graders sort verbs and explain their choices: the -ed ending, the -s ending, or the helper will.
3rd grade

Examples and teaching notes

Third graders name the three simple tenses and sort confidently, including the irregular pasts (wrote, built, flew) that don't wear an -ed. The sort also sets up the harder grade-3 skill of keeping one tense steady across a whole paragraph.

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