As students learn to write, they need to have knowledge about writing in past, present and future tense. These posters explain the difference between the three tenses and give some examples of verbs written each way.
The activity cards allow students to explore writing the same sentence in the past, present and future, focusing on the subject, verb and object. Students can extend sentences by adding adjectives, adverbs or prepositional phrases.
The posters print out A4 in size (or can be enlarged to A3)
The activity cards print out A4 in size.
The subject/verb-object cards print out 10 or 5 per A4 page.
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
Understand that nouns represent people, places, concrete objects and abstract concepts; that there are three types of nouns: common, proper and pronouns; and that noun groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectives (ACELA1468)
Understand that a clause is a unit of grammar usually containing a subject and a verb and that these need to be in agreement (ACELA1481)
Understand that verbs represent different processes, for example doing, thinking, saying, and relating and that these processes are anchored in time through tense (ACELA1482)
Understand that the meaning of sentences can be enriched through the use of noun groups/phrases and verb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases (ACELA1493)