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Grade 5 Reading & Writing · World 4: Grammar Forge · Level 35
Steady Tense, Start to Finish
Find and fix tense slips across a whole text.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 35
- A text should stay in one tense, from the first line to the last, unless the time really changes.
- Here's a slip: a whale shark glided above us, then a diver waves. Glided is past, and waves is present. So waves should be waved.
- When you edit, read just the verbs. Any verb that doesn't match will stand out.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- 5.L.GC.2.b — Use a variety of simple, compound, and complex sentences to strengthen clarity and coherence, maintaining consistent verb tense throughout the entire text. (C)