Make the sentence match its subject and time
Day 33 · Make the sentence match its subject and time
Use subject–verb agreement and time choices in short supplied descriptions.
Teacher preparation
Use the full source in the learner’s usual communication route. Choose a small useful product; models are teaching help, not independent evidence. Note actual help, model exposure and source version. This is a sequence day, not a dated class calendar.
Complete source C05
Complete original grammar card: One tab shows the title. Two tabs show the titles. Yesterday, one tab showed the title. These are three possible description sentences for three different invented records.
These invented sentences do not report an actual tab user or establish every English agreement or tense pattern.
Complete source C06
Original toy-story record: Yesterday, Bo carried a flat paper shield. Today, Bo carries a round paper shield in the story. Tomorrow, Bo plans to carry a striped shield. The story supplies no tomorrow result.
A plan is not a completed event; future wording needs to preserve that distinction.
Six complete teaching moves
1. Read the three complete C05 sentences. Point to the one-tab, two-tab and yesterday records as separate possibilities, not a sequence of actual child actions.
2. Model finding the subject and its verb: one tab shows, two tabs show. Say the complete clause, then compare its meaning and written form.
3. Use the yesterday example to show showed as a past choice; contrast this with C06’s tomorrow plan, whose result is not known.
4. Invite one selected sentence to keep or change. Avoid a compulsory worksheet count; reread the whole chosen source when needed.
5. Notice whether the child can connect a verb choice to its subject or supplied time, and keep the route/help record. Separately observe actual independent spelling only when attempted.
6. Return to the guide job: keep a sentence that says the intended thing clearly, with a brief reason or open question.
Three meaningful routes
1. Choose one C05 tab description and explain its subject–verb match.
2. Use C06 to write/say a careful yesterday or today sentence, or a clearly named tomorrow plan.
3. Indicate one supplied subject and a matching verb through speech/sign/AAC or exact dictation; an adult handles the written form.
At a genuinely taught word point
If show/showed is taught, compare the base and ed spelling with the actual spoken whole words. Do not teach every ed sound or generalisation through this single pair.
Observe a useful contribution
A chosen clause matches the supplied singular/plural subject or preserves the stated time/result distinction.
Next teaching
Offer One label names / Two labels name as new supported practice, then return to a guide sentence chosen by the learner.
Curriculum opportunity
AC9E3LA06, AC9E3LA08, AC9E3LY06
These are partial or conditional opportunities. Adult-read sources do not establish independent reading, handwriting or spelling. Use the full curriculum account and actual school folio.