Past tense endings for Year 2, in two tasks over three pages. A rule box shows three spelling patterns: just add -ed, drop the e and add -ed, and double the last letter and add -ed. Pupils write the past tense of twelve verbs in a table, from walk and play to stop and hope. Page 2 has four sentences with a verb in brackets to change, such as Mum (bake) a tasty cake for tea. The key lists every answer. It follows England National Curriculum spelling and grammar.
Writing - spelling
“Adding –ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y to words of one syllable ending in a single consonant letter after a single vowel letter”
Skip, clap and stop in the table, and hop in sentence 3, all double the last letter before -ed.
Writing - spelling
“Adding the endings –ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y to words ending in –e with a consonant before it”
Smile, like, dance and hope in the table, and bake in sentence 2, drop the e before -ed.
Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
“The present and past tenses correctly and consistently including the progressive form”
Page 2 asks pupils to turn four present tense verbs into the past tense to finish sentences.
Three rules with an example each: jump, jumped, bake, baked and hop, hopped. Under them is a table of twelve verbs, including smile, like, clap and skip, with a space for each past tense.
Four sentences with a verb in brackets: play, bake, hop and walk. A picture of a boy kicking a football sits below them.
Rule lesson
Teach the three groups with a fresh verb for each, such as help, dance and clap, before pupils open the table.
Colour the rules
Pupils colour the verbs by group once they have written them. The split is five that just add -ed, four that drop the e and three that double.
Spelling test
Read out the twelve verbs the next day. Hop and hope sit in different groups, so mark hopped and hoped together.
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