Past tense verbs: K to 2nd reading & writing
Past tense verbs: adding ed, and verbs that change. A free K to 2nd lesson plan with a hook, practice that links to free activities, and an exit ticket. Copy it and make it yours.
Lesson plan
Goal
- Students work toward: past tense verbs: adding ed, and verbs that change.
Hook (5 min)
- Ask the class: what do you already know about past tense verbs?
- Take two or three answers and write them where everyone can see them.
Teach (10 min)
- Say the big idea in one plain sentence: past tense verbs.
- Show one example, then one that is not an example, and ask how the two differ.
- Have students tell a partner the idea in their own words.
Practise (15 min)
- Choose one for the whole class or let groups pick:
- Play: Flashcards: Parts of speech (https://peabody.kids/flashcards/la-parts-of-speech)
- Play: Odd past tense (https://peabody.kids/words/c2-irregular-past)
- Play: Verb time (https://peabody.kids/words/c3-verb-tenses)
Exit ticket (5 min)
- On a slip or aloud: one thing I learned about past tense verbs, and one question I still have.
- Sort the slips into: got it, nearly, not yet. Start tomorrow with the last pile.
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