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WordStudy Start
Vocabulary
Unusual Past Tense Words
Lesson Objectives
Day 1
Students will:
• Understand that not all past tense words have an -ed ending
• Recognize present tense and their unusual past tense words
• Recognize that sometimes vowels change from present tense
to past tense
• Spell the present tense and unusual past tense words
PresentPresent
Tense Tense
Unusual
Unusual
Past Tense
Past Tense
WordsWords
Past Tense
Past Tense
freeze
see
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to words
make past
to make
tense.
past tense.
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= jumped
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jumped
I jump,
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butI yesterday
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grew
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freeze
grow
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Short
to Short
hear
Vowel Changes
Vowel Changes
throw
3
3
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3
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lead
break
break
led
broke
broke
4
4
5
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fall
5
4
knew
5
4
know
4
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Students will:
• Understand how vowels change from present tense to past
tense words
• Sort words into categories that show how the spelling of the
present tense form changes in past tense words
• Sort words into present and past tense
• Complete the classroom activity
Name ___________________________________
Yesterday1.at the
Yesterday
baseball
at game
the baseball
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the ball to home
the ball
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to home plate.
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wasgoing
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a cold from my
a cold
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threw
throw
caught
catch
threw
sang
threw
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Take-Home Activity
Take-Home
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Take-Home Activity (BLM 6)
Name ___________________________________
Date ____________________________________
1.
Will you ________________
1. Will you ________________
a song for me?
a song for me?
2.
My mom2.________________
My mom ________________
my best friendmyand
best
mefriend
to the
and
park.
me to the park.
drive
song sing
drove
drive
Name ___________________________________
Date ____________________________________
Spelling Dictation
Monday, March 4th
Aunt Mandy knew I had slept late, as usual. She knocked on my
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door and said, “Today is Monday, March 4th. You must march forth to
1.
school on time!” Aunt Mandy likes to make jokes and tell puns.
sing
caught
“Okay, I am marching,” I answered, as I opened my eyes. But then
song
2.
I got up quickly, because I needed extra time to put Bumps into his travel
3.
cage. We are studying lizards and other reptiles at school. So Ms. LaGrange,
my teacher, invited me to bring Bumps to school for a visit.
drove
Aunt Mandy drove me and Bumps to school. The cage took up half
3.
Our teacher
3. told
Our us
teacher
to ________________
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careful
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thought
think
break
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thought
say said
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Classroom Activity (BLM 7)
Name ___________________________________
“Okay, I am marching,” I answered, as I opened my eyes. But then
broke
break
told tell
spoke
speak
Date ____________________________________
bus. She said Aunt Mandy had to come and get him.
Now Bumps is still at school, and I miss him. Aunt Mandy promises
we will go in early, so he can come home before school starts. I know I
spoke
will not sleep late: tomorrow will be March 5th, but I will march forth.
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First Try
Second Try
(if needed)
Correct Spelling
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Reading Passage (BLM 9)
Additional Materials:
• Word Study Notebooks
• Pocket Chart
Date ____________________________________
Spelling Peer Check
3.
Spelling Dictation (BLM 10)
Word Study & Vocabulary 1: Unit 6: Unusual past tense words
Directions: Work with a partner. Follow the directions from your teacher to use this BLM to write
your spelling words.
2.
cage. We are studying lizards and other reptiles at school. So Ms. LaGrange,
Ms. LaGrange kept his cage on her desk the rest of the day. When it
was time to go home, Ms. LaGrange said I couldn’t take him home on the
told
Reading Passage (BLM 9)
Name ___________________________________
I got up quickly, because I needed extra time to put Bumps into his travel
• Recognize regular and irregular past tense words in a
reading passage
• Write and sort the past tense words from the passage
• Correctly spell the spelling words
• Correctly write the dictated sentence
Sentence
my hand under and pulled him out.
broke
Take-Home Activity (BLM 8)
1.
school on time!” Aunt Mandy likes to make jokes and tell puns.
No one did any work. Somehow, Larry opened the door of the cage and
Bumps escaped. He crawled under a bookshelf and stayed there until I slid
Word Study & VocabularyWord
1: Unit
Study
6: Unusual
& Vocabulary
past tense
1: Unitwords
6: Unusual past tense words
Spelling Dictation
Review Words
3.
For half an hour, the class watched Bumps eat pieces of banana.
My friend7.andMy
I ________________
friend and I ________________
at the school at
assembly
the school
last assembly
week.
last week.
speak
2.
dragon. He’s almost a foot long and may grow to be twice that size.
kept
Take-Home Activity
Take-Home
(BLM 8)Activity (BLM 8)
Word Study & VocabularyWord
1: Unit
Study
6: Unusual
& Vocabulary
past tense
1: Unitwords
6: Unusual past tense words
Monday, March 4th
keptkeep
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when
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ourout.
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tell
Classroom Activity
Classroom
(BLM 7)Activity (BLM 7)
1.
I thought Ms. LaGrange would be happy to see Bumps. But she
seem very pleased. I’m sure I told her that Bumps is a young bearded
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my arm.
my arm.
My dad ________________
7. My dad ________________
that we couldthat
have
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tonight.
for dinner tonight.
said
knew
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will happen
we readwhen
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we read
chapter
the next chapter
think
Date ____________________________________
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do you ________________
the bowl of fruit?
the bowl of fruit?
found
in the book? in the book?
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a buried treasure
a buried
in our
treasure
backyard.
in our backyard.
find
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3. ________________
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that is the right
thatanswer?
is the right answer?
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know
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of the backseat of the car.
3.
know
I think I must
4. I have
think ________________
I must have ________________
through the best
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of the
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part of the movie.
sleep
6.
wrote
write
door and said, “Today is Monday, March 4th. You must march forth to
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(Window: Attributes)
throw
heard
threw
Past orPast
Present?
or Present?
2.
throw
sing
freeze
throw
hearheard
Parent Directions:
Parent
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Directions:
your child Have
read your
each child
sentence
read and
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write the
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then write
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the word on the
blank line.
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catch
Aunt Mandy knew I had slept late, as usual. She knocked on my
Students will:
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Name ___________________________________
Date ____________________________________
Date ____________________________________
Past orPast
Present?
or Present?
Directions: Read
Directions:
the following
Readsentences
the following
and write
sentences
the correct
and write
wordthe
oncorrect
the blank
wordline.
on the blank line.
5.
Materials:
• BLM 2: Category Cards
• BLMs 4–5: Word Cards
• BLM 7: Classroom Activity
• BLM 8: Take-Home Activity
• Teacher Category Cards—Long to Short, Vowel Changes
• Teacher Word Cards—same as BLM 4
5
Word Cards (BLM 5)
Name ___________________________________
Name ___________________________________
Date ____________________________________
Date ____________________________________
grew
sing
sawfreeze
tell hear
Parent Directions:
Parent
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Directions:
your child Have
choose
your
one
child
present
choose
tense
oneword
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a sentence.
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another
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the past tense
using form
the past
of the
tense
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1: Unit
Study
6: Unusual
& Vocabulary
past tense
1: Unitwords
6: Unusual past tense words
Word Cards (BLM 4)
toldgrew
slept
saw
tell
5
5
Word Cards (BLM
Word
5) Cards (BLM 5)
Word Study & Vocabulary 1: Unit 6: Unusual past tense words
grow
sang
see told
slept
Present Tense
Present Tense
writewrite
5
5
Word Cards (BLM 4)
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froze
grow
see
5
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found
found
swept
sleep
froze
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sleep
thought
thought
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feedfeed
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fed fed
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shone
Word Sort
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spoke
spoke
5
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Name ___________________________________
Date ____________________________________
Date ____________________________________
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Parent Directions:
Parent
Have
Directions:
your child Have
read your
each child
wordread
and each
then word
write itand
under
thenthe
write
correct
it under
heading.
the correct heading.
speak
speak
5
5
shine
4
fell
5
caught
caught
rode
4
5
swept
4
Word Cards (BLM 4)
5
keptkept
catch
catch
4
drove
5
4
know
3
Word Cards (BLM 3)
keepkeep
5
5
ride
4
3
5
4
drive
3
Word Study & Vocabulary 1: Unit 6: Unusual past tense words
Day 4
told
Word Study & Vocabulary 1: Unit 6: Unusual past tense words
Category Cards (BLM 2)
sweep
4
6
4
blow
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knew
3
Word Cards (BLM 3)
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1: Unit
Study
6: Unusual
& Vocabulary
past tense
1: Unitwords
6: Unusual past tense words
shone
4
Unit
blew
3
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Anchor Chart (BLM 1)
Word Cards (BLM 3)
Day 3
Category Cards Category
(BLM 2) Cards (BLM 2)
Word Study & VocabularyWord
1: Unit
Study
6: Unusual
& Vocabulary
past tense
1: Unitwords
6: Unusual past tense words
4
fell
3
3
shine
4
threw
3
swept (Today
I sweep,
yesterday
I swept.) I swept.)
sweep
swept
(Todaybut
I sweep,
but yesterday
sang
3
4
fall
3
heard
feed
fed (Today fed
I feed
(Today
the Ihorses,
feed the
buthorses,
yesterday
but yesterday
sweep
3
rode
4
tell
3
I fed the horses.)
I fed the horses.)
Anchor Chart (BLM
Anchor
1) Chart (BLM 1)
3
4
drove
3
told
I tell,
but yesterday
I told.)
tell (Todaytold
(Today
I tell, but yesterday
I told.)
tell
grew
sleep
Materials:
grow
slept
• Anchor Poster
hear
tell
• BLM 2: Category Cards
• BLM 3: Word Cards
heard
threw
• BLM 6: Take-Home Activity
sang
throw
• Teacher Category Cards—Present Tense, Past Tense
saw
told
• Teacher Word Cards—freeze, froze, sing, sang, grow, grew
ride
4
slept
3
3
3
4
drive
3
saw
3
led
4
sleep
3
freeze
froze (Today
froze
I freeze,
(Today
but
I freeze,
yesterday
but yesterday
I froze.)
I froze.)
feed
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• Use present and past tense words correctly in oral sentences
• Sort words into present tense and past tensefreeze
categories see
froze
• Understand the meaning of present tense and past tensesing
4
blow
smile – e +
smile
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e + ed (Today
= smiled
I smile,
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but
I smile,
yesterday
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In otherthe
words,
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stays
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but changes
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to short.
long to short.
Students will:
lead
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sing
3
Other words
Other
change
wordstheir
change
spellings
their spellings
to make past
to make
tense.
past tense.
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In somevowel
words,
letters
vowel
and
letters
sounds
andchange.
sounds change.
Materials:
• Teacher Category Cards—Present Tense, Past Tense
• Teacher Word Cards—keep, kept, say, said, blow, blew
Day 2
blew
3
froze
my teacher, invited me to bring Bumps to school for a visit.
Aunt Mandy drove me and Bumps to school. The cage took up half
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of the backseat of the car.
1.
I thought Ms. LaGrange would be happy to see Bumps. But she
said she had expected him to be a tiny lizard, like a gecko, and she didn’t
2.
seem very pleased. I’m sure I told her that Bumps is a young bearded
dragon. He’s almost a foot long and may grow to be twice that size.
3.
For half an hour, the class watched Bumps eat pieces of banana.
No one did any work. Somehow, Larry opened the door of the cage and
Bumps escaped. He crawled under a bookshelf and stayed there until I slid
Sentence
my hand under and pulled him out.
Ms. LaGrange kept his cage on her desk the rest of the day. When it
was time to go home, Ms. LaGrange said I couldn’t take him home on the
bus. She said Aunt Mandy had to come and get him.
Now Bumps is still at school, and I miss him. Aunt Mandy promises
Materials:
• BLM 9: Reading Passage
• BLM 10: Spelling Dictation
• BLM 11: Spelling Peer Check
Day 5
we will go in early, so he can come home before school starts. I know I
will not sleep late: tomorrow will be March 5th, but I will march forth.
Reading Passage (BLM 9)
Spelling Dictation (BLM 10)
Word Study & Vocabulary 1: Unit 6: Unusual past tense words
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Spelling Peer Check (BLM 11)
Word Study & Vocabulary 1: Unit 6: Unusual past tense words
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Spelling Dictation (BLM 10)
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Spelling Peer Check (BLM 11)
Students will:
• Correctly spell the present and past tense words
Materials:
• Quick-Check Assessment
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Day One
Supporting ELs
Reinforce that words that show past tense
may not always have an -ed ending. Help
students to understand that present tense
verbs are actions that happen in present
time and past tense verbs are actions that
have already happened. To help students
understand this concept, model several
sentences that stress present actions and
past actions.
Review Adding -ed to Words
Write the following sentence on the chalkboard and read it aloud: My Mom waited
until I had dropped my backpack and closed the door before she wished me happy
birthday.
Have students name the past tense words in the sentence and tell how they know the
words are past tense. Remind them of the rules for doubling, dropping silent e, and
making no changes to the spelling of base words when adding -ed.
Introduce Unusual Past Tense Words
Blending Practice
If some students have difficulty reading the
words, help them blend the sounds in each
word, stressing the vowel sound. This will
help them hear how the vowel changes
from present tense to past tense words.
For example, point to the word tell on the
chalkboard. Show how you blend each
sound, stressing the short e sound,
/t/ /e/ /l/. Then blend the word told,
stressing the long o sound, /t/ / ō / /l/ /d/.
Explain that in unusual past tense verbs
the vowels change. Continue to support
students who need help with blending
throughout the week, using the example
words from the lesson.
Teacher Word Cards: keep, kept, say, said, blow, blew
Teacher Category Cards: Present Tense, Past Tense
Model
Tell students they will be learning about some unusual words that also show past
tense or that something has already happened. Say: Not all words that show past
tense end with an -ed. Some words change their spelling to show that something
has already happened.
Write the words tell, told, see, and saw on the chalkboard. Say: The word tell says
that something is happening now or at the present time. The word told says that
something has already happened and is past tense. Notice the spelling change from
tell to told.
Now look at the words see and saw. See is present tense and is happening now.
Saw is past tense and means it has already happened. The spelling has changed to
show past tense.
Guide
Place the category cards in a pocket chart. Hold up the cards for keep and kept. Say:
Listen as I say a sentence to help you decide which of these two words is present
tense and which is past tense. I kept my favorite pen in my backpack, but now
I’m going to keep it in my desk. Which word shows present tense? Which word
shows past tense? How does the spelling change from present tense to past tense?
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Show the word cards say and said. Ask students to turn to their neighbor and state
which word is present tense and which word is past tense. Have them use each word
in a sentence that shows the correct tense of the word. Repeat with the word cards
blow and blew.
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Spelling Unusual Past Tense Words
Assessment Tip
Unit Spelling Words: throw, threw, know, knew, write, wrote, sleep, slept
Write the unit spelling word cards on the chalkboard. Say: Look at the words
throw and threw. I see that the vowel o in the present tense word throw changes
to the vowel e in the past tense threw.
Have students look at the words know, knew, write, and wrote to identify which
is the past tense word in each pair. Ask them what letters change to make the past
tense.
Point to the words sleep and slept and tell students that more than just the vowel
changes when sleep is changed to past tense.
Monitor to see if students understand the
difference between present and past tense
words. Notice if they can determine the
vowel or vowel pattern that changes from
present tense to past tense.
Home/School Connection
Students can take home a list of the
spelling words and practice reading,
writing, and spelling the words with a
family member.
Have students write each spelling word in their word study notebooks and write
either present or past beside each word to indicate the verb tense. Also have
students highlight the letters that change in each pair.
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Day Two
Providing Support
Give students the following sentence
frames to help them distinguish present
tense from past tense: Today I will
______. Yesterday I ______.
Buddy Sort
Present Tense
Past Tense
sleep
grow
see
sing
freeze
throw
tell
hear
slept
grew
saw
sang
froze
threw
told
heard
Home/School Connection
Review Unusual Past Tense Words
Display the anchor poster. Ask volunteers to explain the rules for changing unusual
present tense words to past tense.
Write the words sleep, slept, grow, grew, keep, kept, fall, and fell on the chalkboard.
Have students match each pair of words to the rule on the anchor poster that
explains how to change the spelling from present tense to past tense.
Teacher-Directed Sort
Teacher Word Cards: freeze, froze, sing, sang, grow, grew
Teacher Category Cards: Present Tense, Past Tense
Place the category cards in the pocket chart. Hold up word cards for freeze and
froze. Say: I’m looking for words that show present tense or tell me something is
happening now. I’m also looking for words that are past tense or tell me something
has already happened.
Have students take home BLM 6 to
complete with a family member. Students
can also take home the word cards and
share their sorts with a family member.
If I’m unsure if a word is present or past tense I can use both words in the same
sentence and see which one sounds right. For example, Yesterday, I freeze when
I was playing outside. Yesterday, I froze when I was playing outside. I think
the sentence with froze makes sense, so froze is past tense. I’ll put freeze under
Present Tense and froze under Past Tense.
Supporting ELs
Place the word cards under the category cards in the pocket chart. Now hold up the
cards for sing and sang. Say: I’ll try using sing and sang in the same sentence: I like
to sing. I like to sang. The sentence with sing sounds right, since it is present tense.
I’ll put sing under Present Tense and sang under Past Tense.
Because some ELs may not have someone
at home who speaks English well enough
to work with them on BLM 6, make
sure that they understand what they are
supposed to do on the BLM.
Repeat with the word cards for grow and grew. Have students help you decide
which is present and which is past tense. If they are unsure, help them use the words
in the same sentence to see which one sounds right.
Buddy Sort
Give each pair of students the category cards from BLM 2 and the word cards from
BLM 3. Tell them to take turns sorting the words according to whether they are
present or past tense. Remind them to think about which words mean something is
happening now and which words mean something has already happened.
Spelling. Have students practice writing each spelling word two times in their word
study notebooks. Have them draw a line between the present and past tense forms
of each word.
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Day Three
Teacher-Directed Sort
Teacher-Directed Sort
Teacher Word Cards: same as BLM 4
Teacher Category Cards: Long to Short, Vowel Changes
Place the category cards Long to Short and Vowel Changes in the pocket chart.
Model how you can sort the words according to the way the spelling pattern
changes from past to present tense. Say: We have been sorting words according
to present and past tense. Unusual present tense words change their spelling
before they become past tense words. Sometimes the vowel changes from the
long sound of the vowel to the short sound, and sometimes the vowel letter
changes.
Hold up the word cards lead and led. Say: Look at lead and led. Lead is present
tense and has a long e vowel sound. The vowel changes to a short e vowel sound
in the past tense word led. So I’ll put lead and led under the Long to Short
category.
Hold up the words cards know and knew. Say: Some words change the vowels
when present tense becomes past tense. The present tense vowel digraph sound
in know is long o. This digraph changes to ew in the past tense word knew. I’ll
sort these two words under the Vowel Changes category.
Have students help you sort the rest of the teacher word cards in the pocket chart.
Independent Sort
Give students the word cards from BLM 5 and the category cards for spelling
changes. Have them work independently to sort the words under the correct
category that shows how each word’s spelling changes from present tense to past
tense.
Applying Meaning. Give students BLM 7 and have them complete the cloze,
choosing the correct present tense or past tense word.
Long to Short
Vowel Changes
lead led
sweep swept
know knew
drive drove
blow blew
fall fell
shine shone
ride rode
Independent Sort
Long to Short
Vowel Changes
keep kept
feed fed
think thought
write wrote
speak spoke
find found
catch caught
break broke
Assessment Tip
Monitor to see if students are able to
determine which words are present or
past tense. Also monitor to see if they can
recognize the vowel pattern changes from
present to past tense.
Providing Support
ELs and struggling readers may have
difficulty completing BLM 7 on their own.
Have them work with a partner to read
and complete it.
Home/School Connection
Give students BLM 8 to complete with a
family member. Explain that they are to do
the same thing they did on BLM 7 in class.
Supporting ELs
Make sure that ELs understand what to do
on BLM 8 since there may not be anyone
at home who speaks English well enough
to help them complete it.
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Providing Support
Instead of having students read the
passage independently, place students in
small groups of mixed reading abilities and
have them choral-read the passage straight
through. Then have them work as a team
to find examples of past tense and unusual
past tense words.
Name ___________________________________
Date ____________________________________
Monday, March 4th
Aunt Mandy knew I had slept late, as usual. She knocked on my
door and said, “Today is Monday, March 4th. You must march forth to
school on time!” Aunt Mandy likes to make jokes and tell puns.
“Okay, I am marching,” I answered, as I opened my eyes. But then
I got up quickly, because I needed extra time to put Bumps into his travel
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cage. We are studying lizards and other reptiles at school. So Ms. LaGrange,
my teacher, invited me to bring Bumps to school for a visit.
Aunt Mandy drove me and Bumps to school. The cage took up half
of the backseat of the car.
I thought Ms. LaGrange would be happy to see Bumps. But she
said she had expected him to be a tiny lizard, like a gecko, and she didn’t
seem very pleased. I’m sure I told her that Bumps is a young bearded
dragon. He’s almost a foot long and may grow to be twice that size.
Word Hunt
Tell students they will be going on a word hunt to find past tense and unusual past
tense words. Give each student a copy of the reading passage on BLM 9. Remind
students that present tense words mean the action is happening in the present time
and that past tense words mean the action has already happened.
Tell students to underline all of the regular past tense words they find in the passage.
After students have found these past tense words, have them go back and circle all
Spelling Dictation
the unusual or irregular past tense words.
Name ___________________________________
Date ____________________________________
Review Words
1.
If necessary,
model reading a sentence or two and finding both regular and irregular
2.
past tense
words.
3.
Have students write the categories Past Tense and Unusual Past Tense in their word
Words
studyNew
notebooks.
Ask them to write the words they found in the passage under the
1.
appropriate headings. Have them write the present tense version next to the unusual
2.
past tense words.
3.
For half an hour, the class watched Bumps eat pieces of banana.
No one did any work. Somehow, Larry opened the door of the cage and
Bumps escaped. He crawled under a bookshelf and stayed there until I slid
my hand under and pulled him out.
Ms. LaGrange kept his cage on her desk the rest of the day. When it
was time to go home, Ms. LaGrange said I couldn’t take him home on the
bus. She said Aunt Mandy had to come and get him.
Now Bumps is still at school, and I miss him. Aunt Mandy promises
we will go in early, so he can come home before school starts. I know I
will not sleep late: tomorrow will be March 5th, but I will march forth.
Answer Key Reading Passage (BLM 9)
Reading Passage (BLM 9)
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Home/School Connection
Have students take the reading passage on
BLM 9 home to read to a family member
and point out the unusual past tense
words.
Sentence
Spelling Dictation
Give students Spelling Dictation (BLM 10). Dictate the following words from last
week’s spelling words to students, one at a time, and have students write them on
their BLMs: skipped, closed, wished.
Spelling Dictation (BLM 10)
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Dictate the following words from this week’s unit, one at a time, having students
write them on the BLMs: throw, threw, write, wrote.
Dictate the following sentences and have students write it on their papers: I only
slept six hours and I know now that I need to sleep at least eight hours.
Write the words and sentence on the chalkboard and have students self-correct their
papers.
Supporting ELs
Make sure ELs know the meanings of the
spelling words. Before student pairs use
BLM 11, have the partners tell each other
oral sentences using the spelling words.
Spelling Practice
Give pairs of students Spelling Peer Check (BLM 11). While one student reads the
spelling words from his or her word study notebook, the other student writes the
words in the First Try column. After the second student has spelled the words, the
first student places a check mark next to words spelled correctly.
For the second try, the first student may prompt the second student by sounding out
the words that were spelled incorrectly the first time. If the second spelling attempt is
correct, the first student places a check mark in the Second Try column.
Then students switch roles.
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Name ___________________________________
Spelling Assessment
Date _______________________________________
Unit 6 Quick-Check:
Unusual Past Tense Words
Use the following procedure to assess students’ spelling of the unit spelling words:
•Say a spelling word and use it in a sentence.
•Have students write the word on their papers.
•Continue with the remaining words on the list.
•When students have finished, collect their papers and analyze their spelling of
the words.
•Use the assessment to plan small-group or individual practice.
Quick-Check Assessment
Answer Questions
Directions: Read each word and then circle the past tense word.
1.
speak
spoke
2.
swept
sweep
3.
heard
hear
4.
shone
shine
Apply
Directions: In the space below, write two pairs of words that show present tense and past tense.
_________________
_________________
_________________
_________________
Directions: Using the words from the word bank, complete the following sort by writing the words in
the appropriate category.
Long to Short Vowel
Vowel Changes
sleep, slept
feed, fed
keep, kept
sweep, swept
drive, drove
blow, blew
break, broke
sing, sang
throw, threw
Word Bank
drive, drove,
blow, blew,
keep, kept,
break, broke,
sweep, swept,
feed, fed,
sing, sang,
throw, threw,
sleep, slept
Think and Write about Unusual Past Tense Words
Assess students’ mastery of unusual past tense words using the Quick-Check for
Unit 6.
Directions: In the space below, explain how understanding unusual past tense words helps you as a
reader, speller, and writer.
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Answer Key Unit 6 Quick-Check
Answer Key BLM 6
Suggestions for Independent Practice
Make Words. Have students use magnetic letters or letter tiles to make several
present tense words and then change the vowel patterns to make past tense
words. Have them write both the present and past tense words that they make in
their word study notebooks.
Guess My Category. Have pairs of students work together using the word cards
from BLMs 3–5. Have them take turns holding up one card while the other student
says if the word is present or past tense.
Play a Card. Have students work in small groups. Give each group a set of word
cards from BLMs 3–5. Place the word cards facedown. Students will take turns
drawing a card from the deck, reading the word, and then saying whether it is the
present or past tense form of the word.
Write a Story. Have students select six or eight of their favorite unusual past tense
words and use those words to write a short story. Have them illustrate their story
and share it with the rest of the class.
Present Tense
Past Tense
sleep
freeze
grow
sing
throw
hear
see
slept
froze
grew
sang
threw
heard
saw
Answer Key BLM 7
1. threw
2. catch
3. write
4. slept
5. found
6. think
7. said
Answer Key BLM 8
1. sing
2. drove
3. know
4. keep
5. break
6. told
7. spoke
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Name ____________________________________
Date ________________________________________
Unit 6 Quick-Check:
Unusual Past Tense Words
Answer Questions
Directions: Read each word and then circle the past tense word.
1. speak
spoke
2. swept
sweep
3. heard
hear
4. shone
shine
Apply
Directions: In the space below, write two pairs of words that show present tense and past tense.
_________________
_________________
_________________
_________________
Directions: Using the words from the word bank, complete the following sort by writing the words in
the appropriate category.
Long to Short Vowel
Vowel Changes
Word Bank
drive, drove,
blow, blew,
keep, kept,
break, broke,
sweep, swept,
feed, fed,
sing, sang,
throw, threw,
sleep, slept
Think and Write about Unusual Past Tense Words
Directions: In the space below, explain how understanding unusual past tense words helps you as a
reader, speller, and writer.
_____________________________________________________________________________
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