Past, Present and Progressive Tense
Your child can show when something happens by changing the verb. They use forms like she is drumming or he was shouting.
In curriculum terms
Use verbs to convey past and present tense correctly and consistently, including the progressive form (e.g., she is drumming, he was shouting), understanding how tense indicates time
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How to tell they’ve got it
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If your child is writing about something that happened yesterday versus something happening right now, do they change the verb — for example, writing "she jumped" for the past and "she is jumping" for right now?
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 2 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
understand that verbs are anchored in time through tense
understand how verbs represent different processes for doing, feeling, thinking, saying and relating
understand past, present and future tenses and their impact on meaning in a sentence
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
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