This hard worksheet pushes first graders to think about verbs inside longer sentences and across different time frames. Multiple choice items ask which word is the verb in 'She paints a pretty picture' and 'The bird sings every morning,' and students pick the past-tense sentence from options like 'I will run tomorrow' and 'He walked home yesterday.'

Fill-in-the-blank sentences then call for laughs, built, riding, wash, and learned, mixing present action with past memories like 'We ___ a snowman last winter' and 'I ___ a new game yesterday.' The activity builds the kind of careful sentence reading that gets students ready for verb tense study.