Ongoing Tales

This worksheet helps students in Grades 6, 7, and 8 combine creative writing with advanced grammar practice by continuing a story using the future perfect continuous tense. Through narrative development, tense application, sentence planning, and visual identification, learners practice writing about actions that will have been ongoing up to a future point while maintaining story flow and clarity.

Learning Goals

• Future Perfect Continuous Verb Usage (Grades 6-8) – Students correctly use will have been + verb-ing to describe ongoing future actions.
• Creative Writing with Grammar Integration – Learners blend accurate grammar use into imaginative storytelling.
• Narrative Continuation and Story Development – Students extend a story with logical progression and detail.
• Identifying Grammar Features – Highlighting or circling verbs reinforces recognition and self-checking.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource – Designed to align with middle school grammar and writing standards.
• Grammar-in-Context Practice – Students apply tense rules within meaningful narrative writing.
• Supports Planning and Fluency – Encourages thoughtful sentence construction and cohesive storytelling.
• Flexible Use – Ideal for writing workshops, grammar lessons, enrichment activities, or assessment tasks.

This future perfect continuous writing worksheet supports grammar mastery, narrative fluency, and creative expression. By continuing a story using advanced verb tense structures, students gain confidence applying complex grammar naturally and accurately. Whether used in a classroom or homeschool language arts setting, this printable provides engaging, no-prep practice that strengthens both writing skills and tense awareness.

This worksheet is part of our Future Perfect Continuous Tense Worksheets collection.