The Spirits of Toys Past, Present and Future

What's the difference between the present perfect and simple past? Have your class practice identifying and using both of these verb tenses through pair activities, whole-class discussion, and a worksheet.

Research characteristics of slavery during the 19th century by reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Also view several informational texts, pictures, story illustrations, and primary source documents. Pupils write an expository...

Challenge your young grammarians with this activity on sentence combination and verbals. Middle schoolers work on three sentences to combine using past or present participles, then go on to use several gerunds and participles in their...

Get your kids thinking about climate change with a series of activities that include creating a ditty box poem for the planet, a poem that identifies concepts or objects they would want to preserve.

Here you will find a fabulous presentation on the use of irregular verbs, and past and present tense in writing. Included in the 94-slide presentation are dozens of examples for pupils to consider. A strong interactive component is...

Present perfect tense doesn't mean that something is perfect, just that it's continuing from the past into the present. Demonstrate proper usage of present perfect verb tense with a slideshow presentation, which features a passage about...

Regular and irregular verb forms are outlined in this catchy PowerPoint. After discussing the infinitive, simple present, simple past, past participle, and present participle forms of verbs, your scholars take a quick test that includes...

Focus on the present perfect and the past perfect tenses. In this comprehensive presentation, learners discuss the past participle, the meanings of the present perfect, how to use since and for, and more.

Change, growth, and a sense of belonging are the focus of a unit that uses poetry to explore these themes and the distinguishing features of poetry as well. 

Print this quiz to assess your kids and their understanding of the simple past and present perfect tenses. In the first exercise, learners complete the questions using either tense. (One of the questions has a spelling error-fix this...