Charity in Progress

This worksheet helps students in Grades 5 and 6 strengthen their understanding of the present perfect tense by exploring how it is used in an informational, real-world context. Students read a news-style passage about a student-led charity campaign, underline all present perfect verbs that include already or yet, and then answer comprehension questions using the present perfect tense themselves. The activity highlights how grammar communicates progress, accomplishment, and unfinished goals.

Learning Goals

• Present Perfect with Already and Yet (Grades 5-6): Identify and interpret has/have + past participle forms that show completed and incomplete actions.
• Understanding Progress and Completion: Recognize how verb tense reflects achievements and ongoing efforts.
• Informational Reading Comprehension: Extract key details from a nonfiction-style passage.
• Constructed Responses: Write complete sentences using the present perfect tense accurately.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource: Designed to integrate grammar instruction with meaningful informational text.
• Context-Based Grammar Learning: Demonstrates how tense choice shapes meaning in real news-style writing.
• Dual Skill Practice: Combines verb identification with comprehension and written response.
• Flexible Use: Ideal for grammar lessons, reading instruction, ESL support, or independent practice.

This printable worksheet helps students gain confidence using the present perfect tense to describe progress and results. By underlining verbs with already and yet and responding to questions in the same tense, learners strengthen grammar awareness, reading comprehension, and accuracy in expressing ongoing and completed actions. It is a no-prep resource that works well in both classroom and homeschool language arts settings, supporting clear understanding of tense in context.

This worksheet is part of our present perfect tense worksheets collection.