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📖 5th Grade · ELAL.5.1dUnit 8: Grammar & conventions

Shifts in tense

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🎯 Objective: Students recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense.

Lesson outline

  1. Find errors.
  2. Fix.
  3. Edit writing.
  4. Exit: fix two.

Lesson 3 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

L.5.1d

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 5 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Use conjunctions, prepositions and interjections
  • Use perfect verb tenses and correct shifts in tense
  • Use commas correctly

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

📚 All 5th Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Grammar & conventions”

  1. Conjunctions, prepositions, interjections
  2. Perfect tenses
  3. Shifts in tense
  4. Correlative conjunctions
  5. Commas

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