EnglishGrammar & PunctuationAges 6–10

Simple Past, Present and Future

Form and use the simple past, present, and future verb tenses consistently in writing

Lesson

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Choose simple past, simple present and a will-future form, and keep a paragraph in its intended time.

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Activity

Ask the learner to change 'I play' to a sentence about yesterday and to identify the verb. Revisit the canonical past/present prerequisite if the time or verb is unclear. Explain that simple present often describes a habit; an action happening right now often needs a progressive form instead. Check subject agreement in a habit sentence: ask the learner to change 'I jump each day' to a sentence starting with 'She'. If needed, model 'I jump each day. She jumps each day.' Explain that with he, she or it, many simple-present verbs add -s. Then guide a different example: ask the learner to change 'I kick a ball each day' to start with 'He'. After the attempt, confirm 'He kicks a ball each day.' Give support before Try if needed. Record subject agreement and time choice separately. Put these examples aside before Try.

Policy

Check readiness directly. Prerequisite availability is not attainment.

Printer, credit, and teaching notes

Check readiness directly. Prerequisite availability is not attainment.

Use paper and a pencil. Keep the three supplied model sentences together during Show. Cover them for Try. All events are invented. The adult may read time words but must not supply verb endings during independent work. Read the active prompt on screen and write on plain paper; no printer, cutting or purchase is needed. An adult may read instructions without naming target forms. Record reading help, verb hints and scribing separately. Oral answers can show language choices but do not show independent written composition or handwriting. Pause or split the lesson if needed. Adult-only. Keep all keys and scripts off learner pages. Share only the active Show solution. Put Show and Guided examples aside before Try. Do not show a future-stage key. Use invented characters and ordinary paper. Do not collect names, home-language samples or private family events. All rules, clubs and events are fictional.

Use the complete materials on screen or print only the current sheet. Keep adult guidance out of learner view.

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These are finite task opportunities, not proof of mastery. Record what was attempted and what support was used.

Will plus a base verb is one way to express future time, not the only English future construction.
The canonical assessment uses happening now with simple present. This lesson distinguishes habitual simple present from ongoing present; that broad wording is only partly sampled.

Record the actual response and assistance. These tasks do not establish mastery.

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Choose simple past, simple present and a will-future form, and keep a paragraph in its intended time.

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Florida Center for Reading Research · Practice link — not the full lesson

Second and Third Grade

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Before you open · source notes

Free FSU/FCRR grades 2–3 student-center catalogue useful for simple past, present, and future wording. An adult picks one PDF; the page is a catalogue, not a single game.

Free university printables, no sign-in. An adult picks one activity PDF.

Before you open

Ask the learner to retell one short event in past, present, and future.

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Source, access and review notes

Public Florida Center for Reading Research (FSU) student-center catalogue. An anonymous GET on 2026-11-12 returned HTTP 200 with no login or payment prompt for this index page. Individual activity PDFs were not downloaded in this check. Opening the link does not save practice or assess mastery. An adult must choose one printable from the catalogue.

Florida Center for Reading Research. “Second and Third Grade.” External catalogue; Gakuva does not copy, host, embed, or redistribute printables.

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Check understanding

Rewrite 'I walk to school' in past tense ('I walked') and future tense ('I will walk')
Identify and correct inconsistent tense in 'Yesterday she walks to the shop and bought milk'
Write a three-sentence paragraph maintaining consistent future tense throughout

“When your child writes about something that happened yesterday, something happening now, and something that will happen tomorrow, do they change the verb correctly for each time — like "I walked", "I walk", and "I will walk"?”

Curriculum record

Type: Procedural
Subject: English
Domain: Grammar & Punctuation
Age range: Ages 6–10

Standards

acara-v9:AC9E3LA08acara-v9:AC9E4LA09ccss-ela:L.3.1ethe-ontario-curriculum-language-2023:ON-LANG-2023-G1-B3.2