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Grade 3 Reading & Writing · World 4: Word Job Junction · Level 34
Irregular Verbs and Steady Tense
Bring/brought, swim/swam, teach/taught, and keeping one tense through a paragraph.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 34
- Most verbs add e d for the past: jump, jumped. Irregular verbs change in their own way: bring, brought. Swim, swam. Teach, taught.
- Some follow little patterns: sing, sang. Ring, rang. Drink, drank. Grow, grew. Know, knew. Throw, threw.
- Bringed and swimmed aren't real words. When you're not sure, say it in a sentence: Yesterday I brought my lunch.
- Keep the tense steady. If a story happened in the past, every verb stays in the past: Last weekend, Kai went to the lake. Then Kai swam all day.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- 3.L.GC.1.20 — Grammar: Form and use the past tense of irregular verbs. (Master)
- 3.L.GC.2.b — Use a variety of simple, compound, and complex sentences to strengthen clarity and coherence, establishing consistent verb tense within and between sentences. (C)