Past and Present Tense Name: Kacey Mohon Time Allotted: 50 minutes st Grade Level: 1 Subject: Language Arts

Materials Required: Enough copies of the word sorts cut out for each pair or individual students (teacher copy as well) Sentence Strips with prewritten sentences and small sentence strips ( enough for each group) Ticket Out the Door worksheets (one for each student) Common Core Standard 1. e: 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). Objectives: Teacher Friendly Objective: The student will use verbs to convey a sense of past and present by scoring 3 out of 4 on the Past and Present Tense Worksheet Rubric. Student Friendly Objective: The student will determine if a verb in a sentence needs to be past or present tense. Assessment: Informal Formative: During guided practice I will walk around the room to check to see if students are correctly identifying which verb tense a word is. Once students are complete I will ask students where they placed certain words and why they placed them under the past or present headings. If students are correctly placing words and able to tell me why they placed a certain word under past or present tense I will move on to the next strategy. Informal Formative: During guided practice I will have each group correct a sentence by changing the verb that is in it. By doing this I will be able to tell if students are able to change the verb in the sentence to properly convey past or present tense. If students are able to do this I will move on to the Ticket Out the Door. Formal Summative: During independent practice students will work on their own to complete the Ticket Out the Door. Based off of the data that I collect I will be able to determine if I need to teach more on this objective or if students show mastery and they are ready to move on. In order for a student to show master he or she needs to score 3 out of 4 on the Ticket Out the Door rubric. Requirements 4 3 2 1 I The student The student The student The student The student The student did correctly correctly correctly correctly correctly not complete identified answered 4 answered out 3 answered out 2 answered out 1 the outworksheet which verb of 4 of the of 4 of the of 4 of the of 4 of the or did not tense was questions. questions. questions. questions. answer any required to correctly. convey past or present tense.

Instructional Procedure: 1. Anticipatory Set: Tell the students that today we are going to continue learning about past and present tense verbs. Ask if anyone can remember what past means and what present means. See if any students can give a past tense verb and a present tense verb. The tell the students that they are going to either work in pairs or alone to complete a word sort using past and present tense verbs and then they will work in pairs to do Syntax Strategy. Remind them of previous lessons that they used these strategies in, but tell them that you are going to model them again. 2. Instructional Input/Direct Instruction: The teacher will direct discussion, model how complete word sort, model how to do Syntax Surgery, and check for student understanding. The students will answer questions during discussion, complete the word sort, correct sentences using the correct verb tense, and complete the ticket out the door. 3. Modeling: First Activity (word sort): Write Past Tense and Present Tense on the board with a line going between each one creating something like a T-Chart. Then tell the students that each pair or each student if a student wants to work alone will get a set of words that are verbs and they are to determine if the words are past tense or present tense. If a verb is present tense they will put it in the present tense column if a word is past tense they are to put it in the present tense column. As an example use the verbs ran and run. Put ran under past tense and run under present tense. Explain to the students that ran is past tense because a person would say I walked yesterday and Today I walk. Do two more examples. Second Activity (Syntax Surgery): Post a sentence strip on the board with the following sentence on it: Yesterday I run home. Tell the students that the sentence should be in past tense so in order to make it past tense the verb needs to be changed. So cut the verb run off of it. Take a small piece of sentence strip and write the word ran on it and tape it on the board where the word ran was. Do two more examples. 4. Guided Practice: First Activity: Pass out the headings and past and present tense verbs to each pair or individual student. Remind the students to place the headings at the top of their desks and that the verbs will go under either past or present depending on what tense they are. Tell the students to try to determine what tense each verb will go under. Walk around the room to check for understanding. After students are complete have students talk about where they placed certain words and why. Second Activity: Have the students work in groups to write down the correct verb for the five sentences posted on the verb. Give each group five small pieces of sentence strips to write the correct verbs on. Allow each group to go to the board to correct one sentence strip like I did, but first walk around to check for student understanding.

5. Independent Practice: Tell the students I am really proud of their hard work. Then tell them that they are to individually complete the ticket out the door. Pass out the ticket out the door and go over the instructions with them. Tell them in order to show mastery they need to correct answer 3 out of the four questions. . 6. Closure: Have a student read the objective on the board again. Ask if the objective was meant. Tell the students that in the next lesson they will work on creating their own sentences using past and present verbs. 7. References: Zutell, J. (1998) Word sorting: A developmental spelling approach toward study for delayed readers. Reading & Writing Quarterly, 14, 219-239. Beers, K. (2003). Why can't kids read, what teachers can do: A guide for teachers 6-12. (1 ed., pp. 135-6). Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Ticket Out the Door

Pick the correct past or present tense verb to complete the sentences below and write it on the line provided. 1. Yesterday I (ran/ run) _________________ to school. 2. I am (walked/ walking) _________________ home. 3. I am (playing/played) ____________________ with my friends.
4. Yesterday I (sat/sit) _________________ next to you.

Word Sort Words (precut and mix up)

Present Tense
Walk Run Playing Sitting Talking Writing Jumping

Past Tense
Walked Ran Played Sat Talked Wrote Jumped