Enhance Your Grammar Lessons with These Present Tense Verbs Worksheets

While present tense may seem like one of those grammar concepts that our students will learn through osmosis, this is an inaccurate assumption. Explicit teaching and targeted practice are essential in ensuring that students can identify and use present tense verbs correctly in a variety of contexts.

This set of present tense verbs worksheets includes 7 engaging activity pages to help your students explore this fundamental grammar concept. The pack progresses from word-level tasks to sentence-level activities to paragraph-level exercises, guiding students from basic recognition through to contextual application.

This worksheet pack downloads as an easy-print PDF or an editable Google Slides file. Answers are included in both file options.

Whether you’re introducing present tense for the first time or revisiting it during a writing unit, these activities offer structured learning opportunities for students of all abilities.

A Present Tense Worksheet Pack with Embedded Differentiation

One of the strengths of this resource is how the worksheet activities (word-level, sentence-level and paragraph-level) naturally support differentiation across a range of abilities. Here’s how:

• Word-Level Activities – These focus on identifying single-word present tense verbs, reducing the cognitive load for less confident learners.
• Sentence-Level Activities – These require students to identify present tense verbs in the context of simple sentences, which is a good starting point for average learners.
• Paragraph-Level Activities – Students who are already confident in identifying present tense verbs can move straight to working with longer texts.

Download This Verbs in Present Tense Worksheet Pack

Simply use the dropdown menu on the Download button to access the quick-print PDF or the editable Google Slides version of this resource. (Note: You will be prompted to copy the Google Slides version to your personal drive before accessing it.)

As this resource contains answer sheets, we recommend printing one copy of the entire file. Then, remove the answer sheets and make photocopies of the worksheets as required.

Looking for more ways to save time and paper? Simply project your chosen worksheet onto your interactive whiteboard and have your students write the answers directly into their notebooks.

This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher in Michigan and a Teach Starter collaborator.

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