Helping Verb Fix-Up

This worksheet helps students in Grades 5, 6, and 7 strengthen their editing skills by identifying and correcting errors involving helping verbs. Through careful reading, grammar analysis, verb phrase revision, and sentence rewriting, learners practice fixing mistakes related to tense, agreement, and auxiliary verb structure while improving overall grammatical accuracy.

Key Learning Objectives

• Editing and Revising (Grades 5-7) – Students identify incorrect helping verb usage and rewrite sentences correctly.
• Grammar Error Identification – Learners recognize common mistakes involving forms of be, have, and do.
• Correct Verb Phrase Construction – Students practice repairing progressive and perfect tense constructions.
• Accurate Use of Helping Verbs – The activity reinforces how auxiliaries support meaning and clarity in sentences.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource – Designed to align with upper-elementary and middle school grammar standards.
• Revision-Focused Practice – Encourages deeper understanding through sentence correction, not just selection.
• Builds Proofreading Confidence – Helps students approach writing assessments with stronger editing strategies.
• Flexible Use – Suitable for independent practice, grammar workshops, homework, or test preparation.

This helping verb fix-up worksheet supports grammar mastery, editing precision, verb phrase awareness, and sentence clarity. By correcting auxiliary verb errors, students gain confidence revising their own writing and recognizing mistakes in context. Whether used in a classroom or homeschool language arts setting, this printable provides focused, no-prep practice that strengthens accurate verb usage and effective written communication.

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