1. Editing Invitation Day 1 Note to teacher:
You may choose to skip the slides of past perfect, present perfect, or future perfect tenses. Differentiate for the needs of your learners.
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2. Let’s Explore Verb Tense
Editing Invitation
Let’s Explore Verb Tense
The Odious Ogre
by Norton Juster
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3. Invitation to Notice Day 1
“I am the scourge of the countryside. Your worst nightmare,” he bellowed, trying to regain some confidence, but he didn’t sound very convincing. “This is humiliating!“ He whimpered, “It is so depressing, so unfair, so embarrassing.” He began to look around nervously. His eyes darted wildly from the house, to the orchard, to the forest.
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Excerpt from The Odious Ogre, by Norton Juster

4. Invitation to Notice Day 1
“Look at her!” His alarm grew with every word. “She is so confident. If I pounce, she probably knows all kinds of secret, painful ways to stop me.” He staggered to his feet and started to back away slowly. “What can I do? How can I live if I can’t ravage and plunder?”
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Excerpt from The Odious Ogre, by Norton Juster

5. BONUS
The present tense of a verb states an action that is happening now or that happens regularly.
*I like soccer, and we practice every day.
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6. BONUS
The past tense of a verb states an action that happened at a specific time in the past.
*Yesterday, I painted and finished a model of a submarine.
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7. BONUS
The future tense of a verb states an action that will take place in the
future. It is formed by using will or shall before the main verb.
*Next week, I will start a new model.
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8. BONUS
The present perfect tense states an action that is still going on. Add has or have before the past participle form of the main verb.
*The boys have been fishing for three hours.
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9. BONUS
The past perfect tense states an action that began and ended in the past. Add had before the past participle.
*I had finished a model of a submarine before school.
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10. BONUS
The future perfect tense states an action that will begin in the future and end at a specific time. Add will have before the past participle form of the main verb.
*John will have turned ten years old by summer time.
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11. The past participle is used with the helping
BONUS
The past participle is used with the helping
verbs has, have, or had.
Present Tense I hide. She hides.
Past Tense Yesterday, I hid. Yesterday, she hid.
Past Participle I have hidden. She has hidden.
Present Tense
Past Tense
Past Participle
am, is, are
Was, were
been
draw
drew
drawn
see
saw
seen
run
ran
sing
sang
sung
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12. Share your sentences and celebrate!
Invitation to Imitate
Write your own sentence in the present tense.
Then, we all throw a baseball to each other until we get hungry.
Then we all ________ a _______ until we________.
present tense verb noun present tense verb +
Share your sentences and celebrate!
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13. Share your sentences and celebrate!
Invitation to Imitate
Write your own sentence in the past tense.
Anne kicked the soccer ball and scored a goal.
I _____ the _____ and _____ the _____.
past tense verb noun past tense verb noun
Share your sentences and celebrate!
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14. Share your sentences and celebrate!
Invitation to Imitate
Write your own sentence in the future tense.
I will like soccer forever, and I will practice every day.
I ________________, and __________________.
future tense verb future tense verb +
Share your sentences and celebrate!
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15. Share your sentences and celebrate!
Invitation to Imitate
Write your own sentence in the present perfect tense.
Alexis has slept for two hours.
_________ ____________ for ________.
proper noun/pronoun present perfect tense verb time
Share your sentences and celebrate!
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16. Share your sentences and celebrate!
Invitation to Imitate
Write your own sentence in the past perfect tense.
Joe had slept for eight hours before the alarm rang.
_________ ____________ for ________.
proper noun/pronoun past perfect tense verb time
Share your sentences and celebrate!
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17. Invitation to Imitate Day 1
Write your own sentence in the future perfect tense.
Riley will have slept for 12 hours!
_________ ____________ for ________.
proper noun/pronoun future perfect tense verb time
Share your sentences and celebrate!
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18. Invitation to Compare Day 2
I play my stereo at top volume, and my mother rolls her eyes.
I played my stereo at top volume, and my mother rolled her eyes.
I will play my stereo at top volume, and my mother will roll her eyes.
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19. Invitation to Write Day 2
Using your own writing, add sentences using the correct verb tense.
A story must stay in the same tense from the first sentence to the last sentence with only a few exceptions. If it happened in the past, every verb should be a past tense verb.
*Tip: Personal narratives (stories about events in your own life) are written in past tense.
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20. Test Talk: We Try It! Day 3 A. Change sometimes to sometime
(1)The first-grade class always takes a trip to the zoo early in the fall.
(2) Sometimes the second-grade class visited a local farm to pick apples (3) The third grade usually travels down to our local natural history museum and then wrote a class report about endangered species. (4) Surprisingly, the fourth grade often voted for a field day to clean up the vacant lots in the neighborhood. (5) The fifth-grade class happily goes away to science camp for three days in the spring.
1. What change, if any, should be made to sentence 2?
A. Change sometimes to sometime
B. Change visited to visits
C. Change pick to picked
D. Change apples to apple
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21. Test Talk: We Try It!
(1)The first-grade class always takes a trip to the zoo early in the fall.
(2) Sometimes the second-grade class visited a local farm to pick apples (3) The third grade usually travels down to our local natural history museum and then wrote a class report about endangered species. (4) Surprisingly, the fourth grade often voted for a field day to clean up the vacant lots in the neighborhood. (5) The fifth-grade class happily goes away to science camp for three days in the spring.
2. What change, if any, should be made to sentence 3?
A. Change travels to traveled
B. Change natural history to Natural History
C. Add a comma after museum
D. Change wrote to writes
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22. Test Talk: We Try It!
(1)The first-grade class always takes a trip to the zoo early in the fall.
(2) Sometimes the second-grade class visited a local farm to pick apples (3) The third grade usually travels down to our local natural history museum and then wrote a class report about endangered species. (4) Surprisingly, the fourth grade often voted for a field day to clean up the vacant lots in the neighborhood. (5) The fifth-grade class happily goes away to science camp for three days in the spring.
3. What change, if any, should be made to sentence 4?
A. Delete the comma after Surprisingly
B. Change voted to votes
C. Change clean to cleans
D. Change lots to lots’
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23. Test Talk: I Try It!
(1) On rainy days, Orin walked quickly to school. (2) Even with an umbrella, he still got extremely wet. (3) If the umbrella is heavy, he waited under an awning in his neighbor’s driveway. (4) He had been soaked twice when he was in third grade. (5) He decides to keep a dry change of clothes in his locker. (6) Orin wasn’t bothered by the rain but was angered to see other kids stay in wet shoes all day. (7)He began a shoe drive for those kids. (8) Orin will become a hero for his elementary school back then.
1. What change, if any, should be made to sentence 3?
A. Change is to was
B. Delete the comma after heavy
C. Change waited to will wait
D. Change neighbor’s to neighbors’
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24. Test Talk: I Try It!
(1) On rainy days, Orin walked quickly to school. (2) Even with an umbrella, he still got extremely wet. (3) If the umbrella is heavy, he waited under an awning in his neighbor’s driveway. (4) He had been soaked twice when he was in third grade. (5) He decides to keep a dry change of clothes in his locker. (6) Orin wasn’t bothered by the rain but was angered to see other kids stay in wet shoes all day. (7)He began a shoe drive for those kids. (8) Orin will become a hero for his elementary school back then.
2. What change, if any, should be made to sentence 5?
A. Add a comma after clothes
B. Change clothes to clothes’
C. Change decides to decided
D. Change keep to kept
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25. Test Talk: I Try It!
(1) On rainy days, Orin walked quickly to school. (2) Even with an umbrella, he still got extremely wet. (3) If the umbrella is heavy, he waited under an awning in his neighbor’s driveway. (4) He had been soaked twice when he was in third grade. (5) He decides to keep a dry change of clothes in his locker. (6) Orin wasn’t bothered by the rain but was angered to see other kids stay in wet shoes all day. (7) He began a shoe drive for those kids. (8) Orin will become a hero for his elementary school back then.
1. What change, if any, should be made to sentence 8?
A. Change Orin to He
B. Change will become to has become
C. Change will become to became
D. Change elementary school to Elementary School
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