A past tense check for Year 2, on one page with an answer key on page 2. Part 1 asks pupils to add -ed to jump, bake, hop and look. Part 2 covers four verbs that do not take -ed: go, see, eat and run. In Part 3, pupils fix the underlined verb in Yesterday I swim in the sea and Last night we eat pizza. Part 4 asks them to tick the past tense of come from comed, came and coming. It follows England National Curriculum grammar and spelling.
Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
“The present and past tenses correctly and consistently including the progressive form”
Parts 2, 3 and 4 ask for the past tense of eight verbs, in a list and in two sentences.
Writing - spelling
“Adding the endings –ing, –ed, –er, –est and –y to words ending in –e with a consonant before it”
Bake in Part 1 drops its e before -ed, and hop in Part 1 doubles its last letter.
Four verb boxes: jump, bake, hop and look. A reminder points to the spelling rules for words ending in e and for a short vowel and a consonant.
Four more boxes for go, see, eat and run, which pupils change without using -ed.
Two sentences with an underlined present tense verb, swim and eat, beside a picture of a swimmer. Pupils write the past tense on the line.
A tick-box question asking for the past tense of come.
End of unit
Give it out after the -ed and irregular verb lessons with nothing on the board, and note who writes hoped for hop.
Sorting the scripts
Put marked papers into three piles for intervention: -ed spelling, irregular verbs and tense in sentences. Parts 1, 2 and 3 line up with the piles.
Exit ticket
Use Part 4 on its own at the door. Comed is a typical slip, so ask pupils to say why came is right.
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