Repairing With the Past

This worksheet helps students in Grades 4 and 5 strengthen grammar accuracy and revision skills by correcting a paragraph that contains a mix of correct and incorrect verb tenses. Students first underline or highlight the errors, then rewrite the entire passage using consistent and accurate simple past tense forms. The task requires careful analysis, critical thinking, and sustained editing rather than automatic rewriting.

Learning Goals

• Editing and Revising Verb Tense Errors (Grades 4-5): Identify and correct incorrect verb forms within a paragraph.
• Simple Past Tense Mastery: Apply correct regular and irregular past-tense verbs consistently.
• Proofreading Skills: Analyze sentences to determine which verbs need correction and which are already correct.
• Paragraph Writing and Revision: Produce a clean, corrected paragraph with clear and logical narration.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource: Designed to mirror real editing tasks students encounter in writing.
• Critical Thinking Focus: Requires students to decide which verbs need fixing instead of changing everything.
• Extended Writing Practice: Encourages careful rewriting and attention to sentence fluency.
• Flexible Use: Suitable for grammar lessons, writing workshops, assessments, or independent practice.

This printable worksheet helps students build confidence editing longer texts for verb tense accuracy. By identifying and repairing tense errors within a paragraph, learners strengthen grammar precision, proofreading habits, and understanding of regular and irregular past-tense verbs. It is a no-prep resource that works well in both classroom and homeschool language arts settings, supporting accurate, fluent, and polished writing.

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