Present Perfect Continuous Skills

This worksheet supports students in Grades 5 and 6 as they learn to recognize and form sentences using the present perfect continuous tense. Through sentence checking, rewriting, and completion tasks, learners practice auxiliary verbs, verb-ing forms, time expressions, and tense meaning while developing fluency with actions that began in the past and continue into the present.

Learning Goals

• Present Perfect Continuous Tense (Grades 5-6): Identify and form sentences using has/have been + verb-ing.
• Auxiliary Verb Recognition: Distinguish correct and incorrect combinations of helping verbs.
• Time Expressions in Grammar: Use for and since accurately to show duration and starting points.
• Sentence Accuracy and Meaning: Understand how tense choice reflects ongoing actions and relevance to the present.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource: Designed to clarify a challenging verb tense with step-by-step practice.
• Error Analysis and Revision: Encourages students to evaluate sentences before rewriting them correctly.
• Meaning-Based Grammar Focus: Connects tense structure to real time relationships, not memorization alone.
• Flexible Use: Works well for grammar lessons, review sessions, test prep, or independent practice.

This printable worksheet helps students build confidence using the present perfect continuous tense accurately and fluently. By identifying errors, rewriting sentences, and applying time markers like for and since, learners strengthen grammar understanding, sentence construction, and clarity of expression. It is a no-prep resource suitable for both classroom and homeschool language arts instruction, supporting precise and meaningful verb tense use.

This worksheet is part of our verb tense review worksheets collection.