Verb tenses worksheets
Aligned with Common Core L.3.1e
Printable third-grade verb tense worksheets: past, present and future, a verb tense table, irregular past tense verbs and changing the tense of a sentence.
The worksheets
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Verb Tenses Chart
Past, present and future on a timeline, plus 27 common irregular verbs like go and went.
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How to Change a Verb's Tense
The steps for changing tense, the spelling rules for -ed, -s and -es endings, will for the future, and one sentence in all three tenses.
Past, Present or Future?
Sentences to sort by tense, like "We played soccer yesterday."
One Verb, Three Tenses
A table to fill in with each verb in the past, present and future, like walk, walked, will walk.
Irregular Past Tense
Write the past tense of irregular verbs like run, eat, bring and teach.
Change the Tense
Rewrite the verb in each sentence in the past or future, like "Dad makes pancakes" to "Dad made pancakes."
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What it is
A verb's tense tells when something happens. Past tense already happened (walked), present tense is happening now (walks) and future tense will happen (will walk). Most past tense verbs end in -ed, but irregular verbs change in other ways, like go and went, or catch and caught. Third graders form and use all three tenses.
What comes next
Quotation marks.
How to teach it
- Use time words as clues, like yesterday, today and tomorrow.
- Say "Yesterday I..." and "Tomorrow I will..." with everyday verbs.
- Learn a few irregular verbs each week instead of the whole list at once.
- When your child says "goed" or "catched," just repeat the right word in your answer.
- Read a short story and change it from past to present together.
Common mistakes
- Adding -ed to irregular verbs, like runned or bringed.
- Switching tenses in the middle of a story.
- Spelling mistakes with -ed, like bakeed instead of baked.