Steady Tense, Paragraph to Paragraph

Find the verb that slips into the wrong tense across two paragraphs, and fix it.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 34

When you write, keep your verbs in the same tense. If a story happened in the past, keep it in the past, from the first paragraph to the last.
Here's a slip: We rode in a boat. An alligator swims past us. Rode is past, but swims is present! It should be swam.
Some writing is in the present, like how a routine goes. Every morning, Ana feeds the chickens. Then Ana gathers the eggs.
A good editing trick: read only the verbs, one paragraph after another. Do they all sound like the same time?
Find the slip in this story.
Light is present, but the story is in the past. It should be lit: we lit candles and played cards.

Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:

4.L.GC.2.b — Use a variety of simple, compound, and complex sentences to strengthen clarity and coherence, maintaining consistent verb tense within and between paragraphs. (C)