Simple Present Tense Worksheets

About This Worksheet Collection

This Simple Present Tense worksheet collection helps students master one of the most fundamental verb structures in English-used to express routines, facts, general truths, habits, and repeated actions. Through sentence completion, tense conversion, editing tasks, chart work, descriptive writing, question formation, reading passages, and personal narratives, students learn to apply the simple present tense clearly and confidently.

Each worksheet emphasizes subject-verb agreement, spelling rules for third-person singular forms, tense consistency, and everyday communication. The activities blend grammar practice with meaningful reading and writing tasks, ensuring students understand not just how to form the simple present tense, but when and why it is used. The collection supports fluency, accuracy, comprehension, and real-world language skills.

Detailed Descriptions Of These Worksheets

Max's Mix-Up
Students complete a humorous mixed-up routine by filling in missing simple present tense verbs, then reorder the sentences to create Max's correct daily schedule. This reinforces subject-verb agreement, verb spelling rules, comprehension, and sequencing skills-all within an engaging storyline.

Dr. Zapp's Present
Learners rewrite sentences from various tenses into the simple present tense. By converting past, future, progressive, and perfect forms, they build strong verb recognition skills and deepen their understanding of tense consistency. This worksheet promotes precise editing and rule-based thinking.

Fix the Grammar Offense
Students act as "Grammar Police Officers," identifying incorrect verb tense usage and rewriting each sentence in the simple present tense. This activity strengthens error detection, subject-verb agreement, and clear sentence rewriting skills. It builds confidence in correcting real grammar mistakes.

Charting the Present
Learners fill in verb charts for play, go, study, and have, applying simple present tense spelling rules for -s, -es, and -ies. The structured format supports visual comparison, pattern recognition, and accurate conjugation across all subject pronouns.

Picture the Present
Students read picture-style descriptions and write one or two sentences in the simple present tense describing each scene. This reinforces descriptive writing, subject-verb agreement, and everyday vocabulary while connecting grammar to real-world situations.

Weekend Market
Learners read a passage about Mia's weekly market routine and answer comprehension questions in the simple present tense. This worksheet builds reading-to-writing skills, tense consistency, and sentence construction accuracy using everyday routine vocabulary.

Present Builders
Students write original sentences using provided verbs, forming both he/she and they versions to practice third-person singular changes. This promotes creativity, grammar mastery, and strong sentence-building skills through meaningful self-generated writing.

School Day Routine
Students respond to prompts about their daily routines using complete sentences in the simple present tense. By organizing ideas using time-order words, they strengthen personal narrative skills and fluency. Two bonus creative sentences add engagement and voice.

Present Questions
Students transform statements into both yes/no questions and wh-questions using Do/Does. This worksheet reinforces auxiliary verb use, syntax, and question-word selection. It promotes flexible grammar thinking and prepares students for conversational contexts.

Present at the Zoo
Learners read a passage about a zookeeper's routine, highlight simple present tense verbs, and answer comprehension questions. This blends grammar recognition with reading comprehension and supports accurate present-tense writing in an informational context.

Verb Tense Transformer
Students rewrite infinitive verbs into their correct simple present forms, practicing regular verbs, spelling-change verbs, and irregular verbs like to be and to do. This comprehensive review supports mastery of spelling patterns and high-frequency verb usage.

Present Fixes
Students identify incorrect verb tenses in a routine-style paragraph, then rewrite the entire passage using correct simple present tense verbs. This full-paragraph editing task reinforces tense consistency, subject-verb agreement, proofreading skills, and narrative clarity.