Tense Time! A Worksheet on Past, Present, and Future Verbs

How to use this worksheet

Look at the first given verb together, like 'cook,' and talk about what it would look like in each tense. Ask your child to write the past tense form in its box first — 'cooked' — sounding out the added ending as they write. Move to the present and future tense boxes the same way, writing 'cooks' or 'is cooking' and 'will cook' as appropriate. Repeat this process for each verb on the worksheet, reading all three forms aloud together once each row is complete.

Materials needed

• Pencil
• Eraser

Extension activities

• 1Have your child create full sentences using the verbs in each of the three tenses they wrote.
• 2Act out a single verb three different ways to match its past, present, and future forms.
• 3Play a quick verbal game where you say a verb and your child has to give all three tense forms.
• 4Talk through your child's actual day using verbs in past, present, and future tense.
• 5Sort a mixed pile of verb cards into three piles by tense.