The Wright Brothers Biography Past Simple Irregular Verbs

by English with Imagination

Price: 250 points or $2.5 USD

Subjects: ela,eslGrammar,englishSecondLanguage,elaLanguageGrammar,conventionsOfStandardEnglish,elaLanguage,textTypesAndPurposes

Grades: 2,3,4,5,6

Description: Your students will have fun reviewing past simple irregular verbs while learning about the Wright Brothers, the inventors of the airplane. In this engaging mystery picture reveal game, twenty sentences are presented one by one. The sentences are accompanied by audio recordings to support emergent and struggling readers. Each sentence contains an irregular verb in the past simple form, which students must type correctly to complete a piece of the puzzle. The following verbs and phrasal verbs are included: be, become, break, build, buy, can, fly, go, grow up, see, sell, make, teach, win, write. A list of infinitive and past simple forms is given on the first slide to review and clarify verb forms and spellings. The text is a brief biography of Wilbur and Orville Wright, the famous Ohio inventors who built and flew the first plane in 1903. Their story of ingenuity and persistence would tie in well with National Inventors Month in May. This resource supports the following second and third grade common core standards for English language arts: 2.1.D: Form and use the past tense of frequently occurring irregular verbs. 3.1.D: Form and use regular and irregular verbs. 3.1.E: Form and use the simple verb tenses. This resource would also be appropriate for English language learners in upper elementary, middle, or high school who are learning to use past simple irregular verbs correctly.