Yesterday’s Market

This worksheet helps students in Grades 4 and 5 strengthen grammar accuracy and revision skills by transforming a present-tense passage into the simple past tense. Students read a short story about Emma’s trip to the market with her father and rewrite the entire passage so it clearly describes events that already happened. The task requires careful attention to both regular and irregular past-tense verbs while maintaining meaning, sequence, and narrative flow.

Learning Goals

• Verb Tense Transformation (Grades 4-5): Convert present-tense verbs accurately into the simple past tense.
• Simple Past Tense Application: Use correct forms of regular and irregular verbs consistently across a paragraph.
• Rewriting and Editing Skills: Revise an extended text while preserving meaning and clarity.
• Sentence Fluency and Narrative Structure: Maintain smooth, logical storytelling after tense changes.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource: Designed to provide sustained, meaningful practice with verb tense changes.
• Paragraph-Level Editing: Moves beyond isolated sentences to full-text revision.
• Meaning-Based Grammar Practice: Requires students to understand the story in order to revise it correctly.
• Flexible Use: Ideal for grammar lessons, writing workshops, assessments, or independent practice.

This printable worksheet helps students build confidence rewriting longer texts for verb tense consistency and accuracy. By converting Emma’s market trip from present to past tense, learners strengthen grammar control, reading comprehension, and fluency in narrative writing. It is a no-prep resource that works well in both classroom and homeschool language arts settings, supporting clear, accurate, and polished past-tense storytelling.

This worksheet is part of our simple past tense worksheets collection.