Grade 05 ELA - EC: E05.D.1.1.3
Grade 05 ELA - EC: E05.D.1.1.3
Continuum of Activities
The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.
This continuum of activities offers:
- Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
- Questions/activities that grow in complexity
- Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance
Grade Levels
5th Grade
Course, Subject
English Language Arts
Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content
Activities
- Identify if the action in a sentence is in the past, present, or future.
- Identify verbs in writing.
- Define regular and irregular verbs.
- Form and use regular and irregular past, present and future tense verbs to show time, sequence, states or conditions through the use of verb tenses.
- Apply understanding of using verb tenses by choosing the correct verb tense in the following sentences:
- Maria _______ her garden. (Present tense form of plant.)
- Maria _______ her garden. (Past tense form of plant.)
- Maria _______ her garden. (Future tense form of plant.)
- Susan and Joe _______ together. (Present tense form of walk.)
- Susan and Joe _______ together. (Past tense form of walk.)
- Susan and Joe _______ together. (Future tense form of walk.)
- My friends ______ in my pool. (Present tense of swim)
- My friends ______ in my pool. (Past tense of swim)
- My friends ______ in my pool. (Future tense of swim)
- Explain how as a sentence changes in time, sequence, states or conditions, the verb changes in tense.
- Construct sentences that correctly use verb tenses to convey various times, sequences, states and conditions.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Student carefully decodes a sentence to discern if the event in the sentence took place in the past, present, or future. The student must be able to determine this to decide which verb tense is correct.
- Student identifies verbs in writing. Verbs are words that describe an action, state, or occurrence. Helping verbs include: am, as, are, was, were, been, be, can, has, shall, will, do, does, did, have, should, may, might, being, would, must, could, had.
- Student defines regular and irregular verbs. Regular verbs are those whose conjugation follows the regular pattern of adding –s, -ed, and –ing to form its inflected parts. (i.e. walk, walks, walked, walking). An irregular verb follows some other pattern. (i.e. drink, drinks, drank, drunk)
- Student forms and uses regular and irregular past, present and future tense verbs. To do this, the student needs to understand singular and plural verbs, and the time-factor of when an event in a sentence took place. Singular verbs generally end in –s. Regular verbs generally follow this pattern. Present (walk, walks, walking), future (will walk), past (walked). Irregular verbs follow irregular patterns. Present (know, knows), past (knew), future (will know).
- Student applies understanding of using verb tenses by choosing the correct verb tense in the following sentences:
- Maria plants her garden. (Present tense form of plant.)
- Maria planted her garden. (Past tense form of plant.)
- Maria will plant her garden. (Future tense form of plant.)
- Susan and Joe walk together. (Present tense form of walk.)
- Susan and Joe walked together. (Past tense form of walk.)
- Susan and Joe will walk together. (Future tense form of walk.)
- My friends swim in my pool. (Present tense of swim)
- My friends swam in my pool. (Past tense of swim)
- My friends will swim in my pool. (Future tense of swim)
- Student explains how verb tenses convey various times, sequences, states and conditions. To do this, the students need to identify if the sentence is happening in the past, present or future. Then the student needs to choose the correct verb. This requires the student to thoughtfully explain and clarify which verb tense is needed to reflect the needs of the sentence. Being able to “prove” which verb tense is needed assures that the student understands the verb and its uses.
- Student constructs sentences that use verb tenses correctly. Demonstrating the skill of using the correct verb tenses should be evident in a variety of venues including stand-alone sentences, as well as being a part of larger writings.
