English Year 4 Language Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas

Understand past, present and future tenses and their impact on meaning in a sentence

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  • Unit Plan Year: 3 4 5 6

    English Unit: Leila and the Blue Fox and Migrants

    This unit invites students in Years 3-6 to explore how imagery, symbolism and connotation shape meaning in stories. Using Leila and the Blue...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3 4

    English Unit: Verb Tense

    This comprehensive unit takes students through verb tenses. The unit begins with a presentation to assist teachers in demonstrating how diff...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3

    English Unit: Procedural Texts

    This unit plan has been created to support your students to understand and become increasingly familiar with typical structural stages and l...

  • Unit Plan Year: 3

    English Unit: Vivid Verbs

    This comprehensive and detailed unit plan is designed to support students when learning about the different types of verbs. The unit contain...

  • Presentation Year: 4

    Verb Tense - Presentation

    This verb tenses presentation illustrates the verb tenses and how they are used in sentences to show if an event is taking place in the past...

  • Presentation Year: 3

    Procedural Texts - Presentation

    This presentation has been created to support your studentsย  understand and become increasingly familiar with typical structural stages and...

  • Presentation Year: 3

    Vivid Verbs - Presentation

    This comprehensive presentation has been created to guide students through understanding that verbs represent different processes, for examp...

  • Presentation Year: 3 4

    Past, Present, & Future Tense - Presentation

    This presentation walks you through the definition of past, present and future tense and examples of how these are written within a sentence...

  • Presentation Year: 3

    Persuasive Texts - Presentation

    This Presentation was written to walk students through the skills theyโ€™ll need for persuasive texts for year 3. This is part of a bigger uni...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Leila and the Blue Fox and Migrants - Answer

    The Leila and the Blue Fox & Migrants Suggested Answers booklet offers sample responses for all key activities across the unit. These includ...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Behind the Colour

    This colour symbolism organiser guides students in recognising how specific colours are used in visual and written texts to suggest deeper m...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Colour Across Cultures

    These differentiated worksheets help students explore how colour meanings change across different cultures. Using examples from Leila and th...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Mood in Full Colour

    These differentiated graphic organisers support students in analysing how colour choices contribute to mood and meaning in visual and writte...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Creating Clarity

    This comprehensive editing toolkit supports Years 3-6 students in polishing their symbolic writing and analytical responses. Whether student...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Symbols That Speak - Toolkit

    This flexible task sheet supports students in Years 3-6 to create a visual comparison of symbolism in Leila and the Blue Fox and Migrants. S...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Say it with Symbolism - Toolkit

    This toolkit includes four structured tools to support students in planning, drafting and refining a short story rich in symbolism, imagery...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Word Power!

    These worksheets explore how word choices affect tone and meaning in storytelling. Designed for Years 3-6, the resource offers scaffolded ta...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Leila and the Blue Fox and Migrants - Teaching Notes

    The Teaching Notes page supports the implementation of the Leila and the Blue Fox & Migrants Imagery and Symbolism Unit for Years 3-6. It ou...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    Leila and the Blue Fox and Migrants - Title Page

    The Leila and the Blue Fox & Migrants unit title page introduces students to the theme of visual storytelling through rich imagery, symbolis...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Verb Tense- Check In

    Students complete four tasks to demonstrate their understanding of verb tense. This resource is part of a larger unit of work on Verb Tenses...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Verb Tense- Quiz

    This Quiz makes for a wonderful whole-class review/formative assessment to gauge studentsโ€™ abilities in their knowledge of verb tenses. A...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Verb Tenses Game

    Use the colourful 1-page game for a quick, easy and fun way for students to practise their recall of the tense of common verbs. ย 

  • Resource Year: 4

    Present to Past Cards

    Use these handy cards to help your students become familiar with the tense of various commonly used verbs. ย 

  • Resource Year: 4

    Past to Present Cards

    Use these handy cards to help your students become familiar with the tense of various commonly used verbs. ย 

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Change the Tense

    Students will change the tense of the written sentences from one tense to another. ย 

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Troubles with Tense

    A fun worksheet that asks students to correct the incorrect verb use, then identify the circled letters and use them to solve the riddle. ย 

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Fill it in!

    These worksheets provide students with an opportunity to become familiar with common verbs written in the past, past perfect, present, prese...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Tense Troubles

    Students must first โ€˜markโ€™ the work, deciding whether the past tense verb has been used correctly. They are then asked to cross out the inco...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    What Tense is it?

    Students are required to identify the verb tense used in each of the sentences to identify whether the event has taken place in the past, pr...

  • Resource Year: 4

    Verb Tense- Poster Set

    This Class Display makes a wonderful visual reference to demonstrate the different types of verb tense. ย 

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Verb Tense - Student Reference Card

    These student reference cards are fitted two to a page and should be cut in half. They provide students with a reference to assist them when...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Procedural Texts Template

    A handy student scaffold students can use, to provide structure when they are learning to write procedural texts. This can also be used as p...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Procedural Texts

    This stimulus can be used as inspiration for students to write their own procedural texts. They can be printed or simply displayed on your i...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Procedural Texts Quiz

    The Procedural Texts Quiz requires students to answer a range of questions stemming from the Procedural Texts Unit to cover both text struct...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Improving Procedures

    This worksheet encourages your students choose a โ€˜simpleโ€™ procedural text displayed on the worksheet to โ€˜improveโ€™ it, making it more detaile...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Language Features - Procedural texts

    This worksheet encourages your students to recognise and work with language features of a procedural text (verbs and adverbs). Students fill...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Parachute Procedure

    This worksheet encourages your students to recognise and identify language features of a procedural text. The procedural text, โ€˜How to Make...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Sequencing a Procedure

    This worksheet encourages your students to correctly sequence the procedural text โ€˜How to Make an Egg Parachuteโ€™. The procedural text, โ€˜How...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    How to Make an Egg Parachute

    This is a great resource to have handy when exploring procedural texts with your students. We have some worksheets within our Year 3 unit pl...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Procedural Texts - Student Reference Cards

    These handy reference cards have been created to support your students to understand and become increasingly familiar with typical structura...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +1

    Build a Better Sentence- Colour Version

    This resource is a must have for any primary school classroom. This activity will scaffold students to build better and more descriptive sen...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Vivid Verbs Assessment

    This resource has been designed to assess studentsโ€™ understanding of the different types of verbs. The assessment asks students to identify...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Present to Past

    This fun and colourful game is a great way for students to become familiar with the tense of verbs! To navigate their way through the game t...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Verb Tense - Present, Past and Future

    This series of worksheets focuses on the use of verb tense. There is one worksheet on each of the tenses- present, past and future tense to...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Relating Verbs

    This worksheet focuses on the use of relating or linking verbs to link pieces of information together in a sentence. This worksheet is part...

  • Resource Year: 3

    What do They Think?

    This worksheet focuses on thinking and sensing verbs. Students are required to use and identify the correct thinking and sensing verbs in th...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Thinking Verb Hunt

    This fun worksheet asks students to locate the thinking verbs in the word search. An answer sheet has been included for your convenience! Th...

  • Resource Year: 3

    How do you say it?

    This fun and colourful game is a great way for students to become familiar with a variety of saying verbs to use instead of โ€˜saidโ€™. Simply g...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Saying Verbs- โ€˜saidโ€™ is Dead!

    This worksheet focuses on saying verbs and asks students select more precise verbs than โ€˜saidโ€™ to show how a character might say something o...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Creating Characters

    This worksheet focuses on doing verbs and asks students to use more โ€˜vivid verbsโ€™ to describe characters and help create a picture in the re...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Verb Hunt

    This fun worksheet asks students to identify the verb type (doing, saying, thinking or relating) and find them in the word search. An answer...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Verb Scoop

    This fun worksheet asks students to identify the verb type (doing, saying, thinking or relating) and add the scoops to the correct ice-cream...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Verb Pop

    This fun worksheet asks students to colour the verb according to one of four verb types- doing, saying, thinking or relating. An answer shee...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Vivid Verbs Posters

    These colorful posters are a great visual for students to refer to when remembering the different types of verbs- doing, saying, thinking an...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Vivid Verbs - Student Reference Card

    These student reference cards are fitted two to a page and should be cut in half. They provide students with a reference for the different t...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3

    Look and Write Cards - Narrative Prompts

    The Look and Write resource cards have been created to encourage students to create extended noun groups, as well as extend their descriptio...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Easter Booklet - Middle Primary

    This collection of Easter activities is a great way of engaging students before the Easter break. This workbook covers a variety of topics f...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Past, Present, & Future - Quiz

    The Past, Present, and Future Quiz is an auto-timed quiz that requires students to identify adverbs. You can run this as an assessment acti...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Tense-o-Rama

    This worksheet is part of a larger unit on past, present and future tense. Practise the skill of identifying past, present and future tense...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Spin to the End - Past and Present Tense

    This worksheet is part of a larger unit on past, present and future tense. This hands-on and engaging worksheet gives you the opportunity to...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Turn Back Time: From Present to Past

    This worksheet is part of a larger unit on past, present and future tense. This worksheet provides the opportunity to change the inflectiona...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Tense-Tastic

    This worksheet is part of a larger unit on past, present and future tense. This worksheet provides numerous sentence cards to sort into eith...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Past, Present, and Future Tense - Student Reference Card

    This student reference card is part of a larger unit on past, present and future tense and provides a definition and examples of the concept...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Inflection Endings Mini Book

    This resource is part of a larger unit on past, present and future tense. Use this Inflectional Endings mini book to practise using differen...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Inflectional Endings

    This worksheet is part of a larger unit on past, present and future tense. Practise changing the inflectional endings of words in order to c...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Tense Tussles - Present Tense Boardgame

    In this game, players will read words and say the present tense form of the word. They will understand that the processes represented by dif...

  • Resource Year: 3

    Blast From The Past - Past Tense Boardgame

    In this game, players will read words and say the past tense form of the word. They will understand that the processes represented by differ...

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Terrific Tenses - Cake Shop

    Learn to differentiate between past, present and future tense with this poster that clearly illustrates the difference between each tense.ย 

  • Resource Year: 3 4

    Terrific Tenses

    'Terrific Tenses' provide definitions of past, present and future tense.

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Past & Present Tense Bunny Footprint Match

    Students will understand that the processes verbs represent are anchored in time through tense.

  • Resource Year: 1 3

    Verb Types Poster

    This set of Verb Types Posters explains the four different types of verbs. It provides a description along with examples, both written and v...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Parts Of Speech Posters Traditional

    The Parts of Speech posters include the followingL Nouns, Noun Groups, Qualifiers, Adjectives, Verbs, Verb Groups, Adverbs, Adverb Groups, P...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Tense Times - Past & Future Tense Game

    This Tense Times - Past & Future Tense Game is a self-correcting board game and is the perfect game for group work and rotations. Students w...

  • Resource Year: 3 6

    Victorious Verbs - Irregular Past Tense Barrier Game

    This barrier game includes 4 different game versions and will challenge you in learning past tense verbs. ย  There are 20 past tense verbs...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +1

    Grammar Charts - Black and White

    This resource includes descriptions of Conjunctions, Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives. These worksheets are suitable to hand to students as a gui...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3

    Grammar Posters

    This resource includes descriptions of Conjunctions, Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives. Theseย charts areย usefulย guides for students who are still...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3

    Grammar Charts

    Six A4 charts featuring Proper Nouns, Common Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs, Adverbs and Pronouns. Each chart provides a definition of the term al...

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