Are your students or children ready for a review of the basic verb tenses? This week’s Spotlight lesson, Juan and Sofia – Simple Past Reading, includes the simple present, present progressive, and simple past tenses, and will engage your kids with a hilarious story and fun, educational activities!
This lesson includes a short reading, comprehension questions, sentence puzzles, a crossword, and a group discussion activity to review the simple present, present progressive, and simple past. There is also a helpful spelling review on forming the past tense of regular verbs.
All of the readings in our Library section have a digital component, so teachers and parents can choose how to present the reading and comprehension questions—either on paper or online!
Other simple past resources:
- Teaching the Simple Past – Teaching tips on our blog
- Zero Prep Warm-Up: Remembering Yesterday – Fun activity on our blog
- Pronunciation of Past Tense Endings – When to pronounce -ed as /t/, /d/, or /ɪd/
- Simple Past Vs. Past Progressive – Advanced grammar on our blog
- Over 20 simple past readings in our Library section (Simple Past Stories)
- Simple past verb lists and spelling rules in our Library section (Lists, Tests, Charts, and Maps)
- Three simple past grammar lessons in our Grammar School section (Basic Grammar Structures and Grammar Stories).
- Over 75 simple past dialogues in our Conversation Station section
Find this lesson in the Library – Simple Past Stories.
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