Students will identify and match past and present tense words, and write three past tense and three present tense words. The literacy center activity is for designed for students in second and third grade to practice identify and matching the verb to the correct tense, past or present, and write more verbs in both past and present tense. Students will use hand-eye coordination to place each verb on the trifold Velcro board, and can work with one to two classmates to match the verb tenses. After students identify which words are past and present tense words, students will watch the past and present tense word; for example, student will match the words walked and walk. Once student complete this step, students will then write on the big blue …show more content…
I wanted to create a literacy activity for students I work in my preclinical experience, third-grade students. This activity is a match and sort language skills activity, or match the correct verb tense. Common Core State Standards assesses students on the use of verbs. CCSS that apply to verbs include, “CC.2.L.1.d Conventions of Standard English: Form and use the past tense of frequently occurring irregular verbs (e.g., sat, hid, told) & CC.3.L.1.e Conventions of Standard English: Form and use the simple (e.g., I walked; I walk; I will walk) verb tenses” (CCSS, 2017). The competent teacher should apply CCSS to educational activity, lesson, and for assessment. This activity relates to Howard Gardner Multiple Intelligences by applying the following multiple intelligences: visual-spatial, bodily kinesthetic, interpersonal, linguistic, and logical-mathematical. Howard Gardner states, “Knowledge is not the same as morality, but we need to understand if we are to avoid past mistakes and move in productive directions. An important part of that understanding is knowing who we are and what we can do” (Smith,2002 & 2008). Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences is essential to significant enough to apply to lessons and activities to enhance student