Irregular Past Tense Verbs Sort

2nd Grade ELAGrammar and Language3 pages

About this worksheet

The Time Machine Mix-Up asks 2nd graders to sort 16 jumbled words into three columns: Present, Irregular Past and Fake Words. The bank pairs sit, hide, tell, go, come and run with sat, hid, told, went, came and ran, and slips in runned, goed, hided and sitted as mistakes. Two questions follow. One asks which fake word was trickiest and why, and the other asks for a new present and past pair such as eat and ate. Common Core L.2.1d covers it, and the answer key gives the full sort.

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Curriculum objectives covered

L.2.1d

โ€œForm and use the past tense of frequently occurring irregular verbs (e.g., sat, hid, told).โ€

The sort covers sat, hid and told from the standard plus went, came and ran, and the fake words show the add -ed mistake.

What's inside this worksheet

Word Bank

Sixteen words in a 4 by 4 grid, mixing present verbs, irregular past forms and four made-up -ed forms.

Sorting Computer

A three-column table headed Happening Now (Present), Happened Yesterday (Past) and Fake Words (Mistakes).

Think About It

Question 1 asks which fake word was trickiest and why people use it. Question 2 asks for a new verb pair not in the bank.

Answer key

The completed table, a sample reason about goed and runned, and pairs such as see and saw or catch and caught.

How teachers use it

Say it in a sentence

Students who are unsure about hided should try it after "Yesterday I". Hearing it aloud usually settles it.

Why goed sounds right

Ask why goed feels right when the class reaches question 1. Most verbs do take -ed, which is exactly why these ones trip students up.

Sort with cards

Print the word bank on card stock so small groups can sort by hand, then copy the answers into the Sorting Computer.

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