Printable Future Tense Worksheets
Printable future tense worksheets for 2nd through 5th grade, with an answer key on every sheet. The sets below cover 3 different skills, so you can start where your child actually is. Available as fill in the blank and sorting activities.
Targeted Practice by Skill
About Future Tense
What this skill is
Future tense verbs express actions that will happen in the time to come (upcoming time). Future tense is formed by placing the auxiliary modal "will" or the phrase "is/are going to" before the base verb (e.g., "will walk", "going to play"). Solvers master future time signaling, auxiliary modal usage, future verb phrase construction, predictive writing, and verb tenses across reading, creative writing, and planning tasks.
When children learn it
Forming simple future tense with "will + verb" begins in 1st grade and 2nd grade. In 3rd grade and 4th grade, students explore "going to + verb" future phrases, future time adverbs (tomorrow, next week), and converting narrative passages between past, present, and future tenses across language arts units and writing workshops.
Common Mistakes
- Forgetting the helping word 'will', writing a base verb when future action is intended during writing tasks.
- Attaching past tense -ed endings to base verbs after 'will' (writing 'will walked' instead of 'will walk').
- Confusing future time adverbs (tomorrow) with present or past time signals in sentence completion exercises.