Year 6: Verbs for Tense Teacher Slides

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Introduce tense and auxiliary verbs with clarity and confidence using this comprehensive 30-slide teaching sequence designed to help students identify, compare and deliberately apply verb forms in their writing.

These teacher slides can be used independently. Note: Where the teacher slides reference printable independent activities, these are available in the full lesson bundle available here.

This curriculum-aligned slide deck explicitly teaches how simple present, past and future tense work alongside auxiliary verbs to signal time and meaning, giving students the tools to construct accurate, purposeful sentences and short paragraphs. Structured around the Gradual Release of Responsibility model, the lesson moves students from teacher modelling, to guided practice, and finally to independent application ensuring concepts are understood and transferred into writing.

Students explore how auxiliary verbs function within sentences through worked examples, choral reading opportunities and sentence-level analysis. Built-in check-ins for learning allow teachers to quickly gauge understanding mid-lesson, while the reflective exit ticket at the end supports targeted follow-up and differentiation.

What’s included in this 30-slide teaching resource?

• Clear learning intentions and success criteria
• Explicit explanations of simple present, past and future tense and auxiliary verbs
• Modelled examples demonstrating accurate verb usage
• Guided practice tasks with scaffolded support
  
• Mid-lesson check-ins for formative assessment
• Teacher prompts and discussion questions embedded throughout

Perfect for upper primary classrooms, this slide deck equips students with the grammatical precision needed to write clearly and confidently—supporting strong verb choices, effective communication and curriculum outcomes.

Format: PowerPoint Slides

Aligned to Australian Curriculum Outcome: Understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice of verbs, elaborated tenses and a range of adverb groups (AC9E6LA06)

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