Helping Verb Chart

This worksheet helps students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 build a strong foundation in grammar by completing a reference-style chart of common helping verbs. Through verb form recall, tense analysis, morphology awareness, and structural understanding, learners practice identifying how forms of be, have, and do change across tenses while also organizing modal verbs by function.

Learning Goals

• Verb Form Knowledge (Grades 4-6) – Students recall and record correct forms of common auxiliary verbs.
• Grammar Foundations: Auxiliary Verbs – Learners strengthen understanding of helping verb families and their roles in sentences.
• Understanding Tense and Structure – The chart reinforces how auxiliaries support progressive and perfect constructions.
• Morphology and Word Forms – Students examine how verb forms change based on time and grammatical purpose.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource – Designed to align with upper-elementary ELA grammar standards.
• Visual Organization – Chart format helps students clearly see patterns and relationships among verb forms.
• Supports Long-Term Retention – Categorizing and completing verb families strengthens memory and recall.
• Reference-Building Practice – Useful for writing, editing, and grammar review activities.

This helping verb chart worksheet supports grammar accuracy, verb tense understanding, and structural awareness. By organizing and completing auxiliary verb forms, students develop a reliable mental reference for how helping verbs function in English. Whether used in a classroom or homeschool language arts setting, this printable provides clear, no-prep practice that strengthens foundational grammar knowledge and supports confident writing and editing.

This worksheet is part of our helping (auxiliary) verbs worksheets collection.