How do you talk about things that have already happened? What about things that happened in the past and are still happening? Explore past, past perfect, and past progressive verb tenses in a helpful slideshow presentation.

Concepts

the past tense, the simple past tense, the past progressive tense, the present progressive tense, the present perfect tense, the past perfect tense, Grammar, verb tenses

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use in a literacy center or in a small language arts group
• Have learners write a short story using one, some, or all of the listed verb tenses
• Prompt your class to write sentences with their weekly or vocabulary words in the selected verb tense(s)

Classroom Considerations

• The presentation covers a lot of material, but its short length makes it easy to augment with your own instruction

Pros

• Provides handy timelines to demonstrate the time period of events
• Three practice slides encourage reinforcement of grammar skills

Cons

• None

Common Core

L.3.1.a L.3.1.e L.4.1.a L.4.1.b L.5.1.a L.5.1.b L.5.1.c L.6.1.a L.7.1.a L.8.1.a