Verb Tenses Fill In

1st Grade ELAGrammar and Language3 pages

About this worksheet

A three-day story about trips to the park holds 12 blanks on this 1st grade verb tense sheet. The Yesterday part takes past verbs like walked and jumped. The Today part takes walk, play, looks and jumps, and the Tomorrow part takes will walk, will swing, will look and will play. All 12 come from a word bank, so students choose by the time word at the start of each part. A bonus sentence about tomorrow closes the 3 pages. It covers Common Core L.1.1e and L.1.4c, with a key grouped by tense.

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Curriculum objectives covered

L.1.1e

“Use verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future (e.g., Yesterday I walked home; Today I walk home; Tomorrow I will walk home).”

The three paragraphs need past, present and future verbs in turn, cued by Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.

L.1.4c

“Identify frequently occurring root words (e.g., look) and their inflectional forms (e.g., looks, looked, looking).”

The bank shows roots such as look and jump next to looked, looks, jumped and jumps.

What's inside this worksheet

Word Bank

Twelve verbs in a grid, mixing forms of walk, look, jump, play and swing.

Action Words in Time story

Three paragraphs marked by Yesterday, Today is Saturday and Tomorrow is Sunday. Students write one verb in each of the 12 blanks.

Bonus

Students write their own sentence about tomorrow using a word from the box.

Answer key

The 12 answers sorted into past, present and future, and a sample bonus sentence.

How teachers use it

Highlight the time words

Have students highlight Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow before they fill any blanks. That one step prevents most wrong answers.

Looks and jumps

In the Today part, the dog needs looks and jumps with an s, while I and we take walk and play. Point this out if students swap them.

Read it back

Once everyone is done, read the finished story aloud as a class. A wrong tense sounds odd when spoken, and students often catch their own.

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