Y4 Grammar Punctuation and Spelling
This Year 4 Past Tense lesson covers the prior learning of simple past and past progressive before moving onto the main skill of using the past tense.
The lesson starts with a prior learning activity to check pupils’ understanding. If they need more practice, you can choose other resources for that step. 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 Objectives
English Year 2: (2G4.2) Learn how to use the present and past tenses correctly and consistently including the progressive form
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These lesson slides guide pupils through the prior learning of simple past and past progressive before moving onto the main skill of using the past tense. There are a number of questions to check pupils' understanding throughout.
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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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This is a free scheme of work for Year 4 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling. It is designed to be used in conjunction with your English curriculum and allows you to cover the Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation objectives from the Year 4 National Curriculum.
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These are the same as the lesson slides on Classroom Secrets. You can assign this as an activity for pupils to access individually in school or remotely from home.
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In this Simple Past and Present Tense Video Tutorial, Katie demonstrates the different verb forms used for the simple past and present tenses. She explains that some verbs are regular with -ed endings, whereas others change their form completely.
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This Past Tense Prior Learning Activity recaps the prior learning of simple past and progressive past tense before moving onto the main skill of past tenses.
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This Year 2 Simple Past Tense and Past Progressive Tense Game is designed to check pupils' understanding of recognising the simple past and past progressive tenses.
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This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency questions for pupils to support the teaching of this step.
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This Year 4 Past Tense Game is designed to check pupils' ability to recognise and use the simple past and past progressive tenses.
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This differentiated worksheet includes application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.
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This main activity includes varied fluency, reasoning and problem solving questions for pupils to practise the main skill of the past tense.
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This application task includes a challenge activity which can be used to further pupils' understanding of the concepts taught in the Past Tense lesson.
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This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency and application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.