Irregular Past Tense Verbs

Methods ofCriterionElicitation

Goal Suggestions

Additional Practice

Receptive: Use pictures, starting with one foil.Identification – Show two pictures, one with a completed action, and another with the same action in progress. Ask student to identify past tense verbs in highly structured sentences. For example, “Which one shows: He ate the apple?”Identification of incorrect use – Use an irregular past tense verb incorrectly in a sentence. Instruct student to “fix” the sentence. For example. “The boy eated an apple.”

Expressive: Use pictures or verbal directions only.Labeling – Use pictures. Instruct student to fill in missing irregular past tense verb. For example, “Tell me what the missing word is. The leaf _______ off of the tree.” Use – Instruct student to use a given irregular past tense verb in a sentence with a starter that provides the tense. For example, “Use the word ‘teach’ in a sentence that begins with the word ‘Yesterday. Use the word ‘wake’ in a sentence that begins with the words, ‘This morning.’”

Edgar will identify incorrect early developing irregular past tense verbs in simple sentences, e.g. “The bear catched a fish.”Joanne will correctly label later developing irregular past tense verbs, e.g. “What is the past tense of the word ‘shake’?”Johnny will use the correct form of later developing and curriculum relevant irregular past tense verbs in varied sentences, e.g. “Use the word freeze in a past tense sentence beginning with yesterday.”

Create a list of irregular past tense verbs at student’s level. Send home with instructions to use in sentences in exchange for individualized incentive. Require parent signature for parental involvement opportunity.Sentence Maze, Sentence Bulls Eye, Sentence Drop – Send with student with homework or complete with instructor for extra practice. Require parent signature to provide opportunity for parental involvement.