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The Old Red Tractor: A Verb Tense Play

Grade 3 verb tense practice with a short play about fixing up Grandpa's old tractor: form and use simple past, present and future verbs.

Grade 3ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toL.3.1.e

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1 Common Core standard
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12 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 3
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students tell whether a verb is in the simple past, present or future tense.
Students form simple past, present and future verbs such as walked, walks and will walk.
Students choose the verb tense that fits a time word in a sentence.

How to use

Read the play aloud in parts, then talk about the time words (long ago, now, tomorrow) before students sort and write the verbs.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.3.1.e

Form and use the simple verb tenses, such as I walked, I walk, and I will walk.

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The Old Red Tractor: A Verb Tense Play

Use verbs in the past, present and future.

Read the play

The Old Red Tractor

1DARIO: Grandpa, why is this old tractor in the back of the barn? It looks so sad and lonely.

2GRANDPA RUSLAN: I bought it a long time ago. I plowed the fields with it every spring. Then one cold winter, the engine stopped, and I parked it here.

3AIYANA: Now it sits under a dusty blanket. The tires look flat, and the paint peels off in little red flakes. A family of mice built a nest in the toolbox last fall.

4DARIO: (He wipes the seat with a rag.) Look! The seat shines under all that dust. We can fix this tractor!

5GRANDPA RUSLAN: Tomorrow, we will pump air into the tires. Next week, I will order a new battery from the shop in town.

6AIYANA: And I will paint it bright red. Then we will drive it slowly around the apple trees.

7DARIO: Grandpa, you smiled just now. You look happy.

8GRANDPA RUSLAN: I am happy. Long ago, I worked on this tractor alone. This time, my grandchildren help me. Together, we will make this old tractor run again.

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