Y5 Grammar Punctuation and Spelling
Past or Present Lesson Lesson
This lesson covers the prior learning of past and present tenses before moving onto the main skill of identifying the past and present tenses in their simple and progressive forms.
The lesson starts with a prior learning activity to check pupils’ understanding. The interactive lesson slides recap the prior learning before moving on to the main skill. Children can then practise further by completing the activities and can extend their learning with engaging reasoning and application tasks.
National Curriculum Objective:
English Year 5: (5G4.1b) Using the perfect form of verbs to mark relationships of time and cause
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2 Teaching Support
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Teaching PowerPoint
This teaching PowerPoint guides pupils through the prior learning of past and present tenses before moving onto the main skill of identifying the past and present tenses in their simple and progressive forms. There are some modelled varied fluency and application and reasoning questions included at the end.
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Modelling PowerPoint
This PowerPoint can be used to model the questions that the children will complete on the varied fluency and application and reasoning worksheets as part of this lesson.
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Free Year 5 GPS Scheme of Work Spring Block 3 – Tenses
This is a free scheme of work for Year 5 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling. This resource is the second block in the teaching sequence and includes 9 small steps with guidance for teaching.
1 Prior Learning
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Prior Learning Activity
This Past or Present Prior Learning Activity recaps the prior learning of past and present tenses before moving onto the main skill of identifying the past and present tenses in their simple and progressive forms.
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Interactive Activity
This Year 4 Past Tense Game is designed to check pupils' ability to recognise and use the simple past and past progressive tenses.
2 Varied Fluency
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Varied Fluency
This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency questions for pupils to support the teaching of this step.
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Interactive Activity
This Year 5 Past or Present activity includes 5 questions designed to test pupils' understanding of recognising the past and present tenses.
2 Application
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Application
This application task includes a challenge activity which can be used to further pupils' understanding of the concepts taught in the Past or Present? lesson.
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Mixed Activity
This main activity includes varied fluency, reasoning and application questions for pupils to practise the main skill of identifying the past and present tenses in their simple and progressive forms.
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Application and Reasoning
This differentiated worksheet includes application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.
2 Homework
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Homework
This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency and application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.
