Year 3 Past Present Future Tense Unit | Worksheets, Games & Assessment

Help Year 3 students identify, change and use past, present and future tense with this ready-to-teach English grammar unit. Students practise time clues, regular verb endings, spelling changes, irregular verbs, sentence rewrites and tense consistency in short paragraphs.

This Australian Curriculum-aligned unit supports explicit grammar lessons, writing groups, literacy centres, independent practice, revision and assessment.

What's Included

• An editable PowerPoint presentation for explicit instruction
• An editable 10-question quiz
• A colour Tense Time Travel Toolkit classroom display
• Two colour games and activities: Time Zone Verb Sort and Tense Trek
• Six black-and-white student worksheets
• Matching answer and suggested-answer pages
• The School Garden Tense Challenge assessment and answer/model page
• A marking rubric
• A final unit plan PDF

Learning Focus

• Identify past, present and future tense
• Use time clues and regular verb endings
• Apply spelling changes and irregular verb forms
• Rewrite sentences in different tenses
• Maintain tense consistency in short paragraphs

Classroom Use

Use the presentation for explicit instruction, the display for classroom reference, the games for partner or centre practice, the worksheets for consolidation, and the assessment and rubric to collect evidence of students' control of tense in words, sentences and short writing.

This is a digital resource licensed for single-classroom use. No physical product will be shipped.