Irregular Past Tense ought endings

This resource is for use with children who have developed an understanding and use of regular past tense but who have not yet acquired the correct use of irregular forms of past tense. They are likely to exhibit immature forms of irregular past tense, such as ‘I buyed some sweets,’ or ‘I teached him how to play football’. Before using this resource, it is therefore important to ensure that the child understands that we change some words when we talk about things that have already happened.

The activities are designed for verbal production of the words, but teachers will find the resources helpful to assist the pupil to identify and use the irregular form and could adapt the worksheets to include a written target. When a worksheet requires some reading, the adult should always read it out aloud for the child.

The fun illustrated activities are designed to help the child remember how to change some words when we talk about things that have already happened. For example:

• Spiders catch things in their webs. This morning, Spotty Spider caught all sorts of things. Colour and cut out the small pictures, then stick them on the web. Talk about what the spider caught.
• Yesterday, four people brought different things to our house. Draw a line between each person and what you think they brought.
• Mr Smith was my teacher last year. He taught me lots of things. Draw and write on the boards and say what he taught me
• I read a good book last week, about a brave princess who had to rescue the people in the castle. She fought some scary things on the way. Follow the princess along the road. Join the dots to see who she fought.
• Ryan plays lots of tricks on his sister. Last night, he dressed up. His sister thought he was somebody else. What did she think Ryan was?
• Clear instructions and colourful illustrations make them suitable for clinic, home and/or school. Devised and illustrated by Helen Rippon, Highly Specialist SLT, the resource deals with one-to-one and group settings to facilitate repetition, modelling and reinforcement.

Please also refer to the Black Sheep Press website for a wide range of packs which offer direct and focused intervention for a range of grammatical markers.

Aims: to develop understanding and use of irregular past tense verbs with the ‘ought’ ending.

Age Range: Foundation Stage – KS 1+, 4years – 7years+.

Format: PDF file, 4 pages of instructions and 30 coloured activity pages. (Black and white duplicate activity pages are included)

Snippets: Upgrade your account to send specially selected extracts of this resource, via our website, to parents and carers for homework exercises. The snippets for this include the following:

• A drawing and talking activity involving children who were playing catch. What have they caught?’
• A game involving 4 people who ‘brought’ different things to the house. The challenge is to draw a line between the people and the item that each of them brought with them!