Subject-Verb Agreement Worksheets

About this resource

"The dog run" and "The dogs runs" are both one word away from right. Children learn subject-verb agreement best when the rule is worked the same way every time: a subject that means one (he, she, it, or a noun that means one) takes the -s verb; a subject that means more than one (they, we, or a noun that means more than one) keeps the plain verb. This is a full subject-verb agreement kit for first and second grade, worked four ways, with room to work on every writing page.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (31 pages)

• 14 student pages in 6 page types (below), each with a big "My name" line and one short instruction
• 72 different sentences, all invented, short and neutral, built from a controlled subject/verb/place bank; no practice sentence repeats across the student pages
• The rule practiced: he, she, it and a noun that means one take the -s verb; they, we and a noun that means more than one keep the plain verb
• 18 cut-and-glue sentences, six a page, in a block that takes 3 straight cuts
• 1 rules page for the teacher (with a blank line for your program's own wording), 3 answer keys generated from the same data as the pages
• 1 tracker (12 rows), 1 class progress grid, 1 team note, 1 home page, 1 filled example (an invented student), 1 phrase bank (17 starters)
• 1 binder cover and 6 divider tabs with a spine label to cut out
• Start Here, a how-to-read-a-page page, and a back page

THE SIX PAGE TYPES (dots show the level, never color)

1. Subject and Verb Helper (1 dot) — one subject, one matching verb, in kid words: add -s when the subject is one, keep the plain verb when it is more than one.

2. Circle the Verb (1 dot, 3 pages) — a sentence with a blank; the child circles the verb (from two choices) that matches the subject.

3. Sort the Sentences (2 dots, 3 pages) — cut six sentences from a 3 by 2 block (three straight cuts) and glue each under One or More Than One.

4. Write the Verb (2 dots, 3 pages) — the wrong verb is printed small and underlined; the child writes the correct verb on the line next to it.

5. Fill in the Blank (3 dots, 3 pages) — a word box of six verbs at the top of the page; the child chooses the matching word and writes it in the sentence's blank.

6. My Sentences (3 dots, 1 page) — He, They, a noun: write a sentence with each word and draw one.

Sentences come in three sets of six (A, B, C), so a child never meets the same sentence twice on one page type.

Built For The Child Holding The Page

A big "My name" line, one short instruction with a picture, large rounded letters, and writing boxes on primary lines at least 0.6 inch tall. Nothing on a student page is written for an adult. Cutting is limited to Sort the Sentences: six pieces a page, touching edge to edge, each wider than 2 inches and taller than 1.

Type In, Or Print

The name and date lines, the tracker, the class grid, the team note, the home page and the rules-page note box are type-in fields in any PDF reader. The letters a student writes in the boxes are pencil work. This is a fillable PDF; it is not a Google Slides or PowerPoint file.

Who This Is For

First and second grade classrooms, self-contained and resource rooms, and any teacher working with an older student who still needs subject-verb agreement. The home page sends the same job to a family; the team note hands off what changed since the last meeting.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

Subject-verb agreement practice with the record-keeping around it. It is not a probe, a goal bank or a score sheet, not a writing assessment, and not a claim about any student's age or rate of progress. Collective nouns treated as one (team, class), indefinite pronouns (everyone, someone), compound subjects joined by "and", nouns that mean more than one without an -s (children, people), and the verb be (is/are) are not practiced here — those are an older-grade rule and the store's Subject-Verb Agreement Editing probe's own territory.