Verbs Lesson, Grades 3-4: Regular Past Tense Verbs with -ed

Today I walk to school. Yesterday I walked to school. Which word changed, and how? In about 40 minutes, students learn that most verbs add -ed to show the past, and that the spelling of that ending follows five patterns: just add -ed (jump, jumped), add only -d after an e (smile, smiled), change y to i after a consonant (cry, cried), keep the y after a vowel (play, played), and, in this lesson, double the last letter of a one-syllable verb that ends in one vowel and one consonant (not w, x or y), like stop, stopped.

What's inside

• 15 slides, with speaker notes on all 15
• Lesson plan, 2 pages
• Rule Notes, 1 student page
• Student worksheet, 2 pages
• Teacher answer key, 1 page
• Print-all PDF, 6 pages: lesson plan, Rule Notes, worksheet and answer key together

Answer key included

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