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Word Study & Vocabulary 1: Unit 6: Unusual past tense words ©2010 Benchmark Education Company, LLC

3 3

3 3

3 3

3 3

3 3

3 3

3 3

3 3

freeze

froze

grew

grow

hear

heard

sang

saw

see

sing

sleep

slept

tell

threw

throw

toldWord Cards (BLM 3)


Name ___________________________________ Date ____________________________________

Word SortParent Directions: Have your child read each word and then write it under the correct heading.

Word Bank

sleep froze grow sang

see told grew sing

slept saw freeze throw

tell hear heard threw

Present Tense Past Tense

Parent Directions: Have your child choose one present tense word and write a sentence. Then have him or her write another sentence using the past tense form of the word.

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Take-Home Activity (BLM 6)


Name ___________________________________ Date ____________________________________

Past or Present?Directions: Read the following sentences and write the correct word on the blank line.

1. Yesterday at the baseball game I ________________ the ball to home plate.

throw threw

2. I was afraid I was going to ________________ a cold from my little sister.

catch caught

3. Our teacher told us to ________________ a report about our science project.

write wrote

4. I think I must have ________________ through the best part of the movie.

sleep slept

5. We ________________ a buried treasure in our backyard.

find found

6. What do you ________________ will happen when we read the next chapter

in the book?

think thought

7. My dad ________________ that we could have pizza for dinner tonight.

said say

Classroom Activity (BLM 7)


Name ___________________________________ Date ____________________________________

Monday, March 4thAunt Mandy knew I had slept late, as usual. She knocked on my

door and said, “Today is Monday, March 4th. You must march forth to

school on time!” Aunt Mandy likes to make jokes and tell puns.

“Okay, I am marching,” I answered, as I opened my eyes. But then

I got up quickly, because I needed extra time to put Bumps into his travel

cage. We are studying lizards and other reptiles at school. So Ms. LaGrange,

my teacher, invited me to bring Bumps to school for a visit.

Aunt Mandy drove me and Bumps to school. The cage took up half

of the backseat of the car.

I thought Ms. LaGrange would be happy to see Bumps. But she

said she had expected him to be a tiny lizard, like a gecko, and she didn’t

seem very pleased. I’m sure I told her that Bumps is a young bearded

dragon. He’s almost a foot long and may grow to be twice that size.

For half an hour, the class watched Bumps eat pieces of banana.

No one did any work. Somehow, Larry opened the door of the cage and

Bumps escaped. He crawled under a bookshelf and stayed there until I slid

my hand under and pulled him out.

Ms. LaGrange kept his cage on her desk the rest of the day. When it

was time to go home, Ms. LaGrange said I couldn’t take him home on the

bus. She said Aunt Mandy had to come and get him.

Now Bumps is still at school, and I miss him. Aunt Mandy promises

we will go in early, so he can come home before school starts. I know I

will not sleep late: tomorrow will be March 5th, but I will march forth.

Reading Passage (BLM 9)

uNIT 6

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Word Study & Vocabulary 1: Unit 6: Unusual past tense words ©2010 Benchmark Education Company, LLCAnchor Chart (BLM 1)

Unusual Past Tense Words

You can add -ed to some words to make past tense.

jump + ed = jumped (Today I jump, but yesterday I jumped.)

smile – e + ed = smiled (Today I smile, but yesterday I smiled.)

Other words change their spellings to make past tense. In some words, vowel letters and sounds change.

freeze froze (Today I freeze, but yesterday I froze.)

tell told (Today I tell, but yesterday I told.)

In other words, the vowel stays the same but changes from long to short.

feed fed (Today I feed the horses, but yesterday I fed the horses.)

sweep swept (Today I sweep, but yesterday I swept.)

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Word Study & Vocabulary 1: Unit 6: Unusual past tense words ©2010 Benchmark Education Company, LLCCategory Cards (BLM 2)


Long to Short Vowel Changes

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3 3

3 3

3 3

3 3

3 3

3 3

3 3

3 3

freeze

froze

grew

grow

hear

heard

sang

saw

see

sing

sleep

slept

tell

threw

throw

toldWord Cards (BLM 3)

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4 4

4 4

4 4

4 4

4 4

4 4

4 4

4 4

blew

blow

drive

drove

fall

fell

knew

know

lead

led

ride

rode

shine

shone

sweep

sweptWord Cards (BLM 4)

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5 5

5 5

5 5

5 5

5 5

5 5

5 5

5 5

break

broke

catch

caught

fed

feed

find

found

keep

kept

speak

spoke

think

thought

write

wroteWord Cards (BLM 5)

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Name ___________________________________ Date ____________________________________

Word SortParent Directions: Have your child read each word and then write it under the correct heading.

Word Bank

sleep froze grow sang

see told grew sing

slept saw freeze throw

tell hear heard threw


Parent Directions: Have your child choose one present tense word and write a sentence. Then have him or her write another sentence using the past tense form of the word.

__________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________


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Name ___________________________________ Date ____________________________________

Past or Present?Directions: Read the following sentences and write the correct word on the blank line.

1. Yesterday at the baseball game I ________________ the ball to home plate.

throw threw

2. I was afraid I was going to ________________ a cold from my little sister.

catch caught

3. Our teacher told us to ________________ a report about our science project.

write wrote

4. I think I must have ________________ through the best part of the movie.

sleep slept

5. We ________________ a buried treasure in our backyard.

find found

6. What do you ________________ will happen when we read the next chapter

in the book?

think thought

7. My dad ________________ that we could have pizza for dinner tonight.

said say

Classroom Activity (BLM 7)

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Name ___________________________________ Date ____________________________________

Past or Present?Parent Directions: Have your child read each sentence and then write the correct word on the blank line.

1. Will you ________________ a song for me?

sing song

2. My mom ________________ my best friend and me to the park.

drive drove

3. How do you ________________ that is the right answer?

know knew

4. Where do you ________________ the bowl of fruit?

keep kept

5. My mom said if I wasn’t careful I would fall out of the tree and

________________ my arm.

break broke

6. We all ________________ scary stories one night when our lights went out.

tell told

7. My friend and I ________________ at the school assembly last week.

speak spoke


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Name ___________________________________ Date ____________________________________

Monday, March 4thAunt Mandy knew I had slept late, as usual. She knocked on my

door and said, “Today is Monday, March 4th. You must march forth to

school on time!” Aunt Mandy likes to make jokes and tell puns.

“Okay, I am marching,” I answered, as I opened my eyes. But then

I got up quickly, because I needed extra time to put Bumps into his travel

cage. We are studying lizards and other reptiles at school. So Ms. LaGrange,

my teacher, invited me to bring Bumps to school for a visit.

Aunt Mandy drove me and Bumps to school. The cage took up half

of the backseat of the car.

I thought Ms. LaGrange would be happy to see Bumps. But she

said she had expected him to be a tiny lizard, like a gecko, and she didn’t

seem very pleased. I’m sure I told her that Bumps is a young bearded

dragon. He’s almost a foot long and may grow to be twice that size.

For half an hour, the class watched Bumps eat pieces of banana.

No one did any work. Somehow, Larry opened the door of the cage and

Bumps escaped. He crawled under a bookshelf and stayed there until I slid

my hand under and pulled him out.

Ms. LaGrange kept his cage on her desk the rest of the day. When it

was time to go home, Ms. LaGrange said I couldn’t take him home on the

bus. She said Aunt Mandy had to come and get him.

Now Bumps is still at school, and I miss him. Aunt Mandy promises

we will go in early, so he can come home before school starts. I know I

will not sleep late: tomorrow will be March 5th, but I will march forth.

Reading Passage (BLM 9)

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Name ___________________________________ Date ____________________________________

Spelling Dictation

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Sentence

Spelling Dictation (BLM 10)

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Name ___________________________________ Date ____________________________________

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Spelling Peer CheckDirections: Work with a partner. Follow the directions from your teacher to use this BLM to write your spelling words.

Second Try (if needed)

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Correct Spelling

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Spelling Peer Check (BLM 11)

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