Y4 Grammar Punctuation and Spelling
This lesson covers the prior learning of recognising the simple past and simple present tense before moving onto the main skill of consolidating the simple past, simple present and present perfect tenses.
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 Objective:
English Year 3: (3G4.1b) Use of the present perfect form of verbs instead of the simple past [for example, He has gone out to play contrasted with He went out to play]
English Year 3: (3G4.1b) Using the present perfect form of verbs in contrast to the past tense
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This teaching PowerPoint guides pupils through the prior learning of recognising the simple past and simple present tense before moving onto the main skill of consolidating the simple past, simple present and present perfect tenses. There are some modelled varied fluency and application and reasoning questions included at the end.
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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. This resource is the second block in the teaching sequence and includes 12 small steps with guidance for teaching.
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This Consolidating Tenses Prior Learning Activity recaps the prior learning of recognising the simple past and simple present tense before moving onto the main skill of consolidating the simple past, simple present and present perfect 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 Year 4 Present Perfect or Simple Past? Game is designed to check pupils’ ability to recognise and use the present perfect and simple past tenses.
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This main activity includes varied fluency, reasoning and application questions for pupils to practise the main skill of consolidating the simple past, simple present and present perfect tenses.
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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 Consolidating Tenses lesson.
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This differentiated worksheet includes application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.
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This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency and application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.