We have been working on how to build a sentence that includes a subject and a verb. We've also been working on making sure the sentence makes sense, has a capital letter and has an end punctuation mark at the end. The biggest trouble I find with my students is that they struggle with making sure the sentence makes sense. Currently, I'm using a program called, "Fundamentals of Writing." It's a Kanasa Strategy Instruction Model program. I really like how it starts out easy and contiues to build harder. I also like to have games that are fun, build team work and another way of learning about sentences. I have a couple different boxes that have cards in it that you can build sentences with. The first box, which is what we started out with has pictures along with words. This is the one I will be showing you today. There are 250 cards in the box. I took them all out and layed them upside down on the floor. Each student took 2 cards and moved to the carpet. They worked together to form a sentence. The trick with this is, they sentence had to start with a capital letter, but if they had more then one capital letter that they picked, it could not be used for the middle of the sentence. This make it tricky, because it may have not made sense to use it at the beginning, but may have made sense to use it in the middle of the sentence. They could use the picture cards anywhere in the sentence and not just at the end of the sentence.
Once they did have a sentence together, which they did not have to use all the cards, I would count up how many cards they used and we would write the number on the board. Besides having to form correct sentences we also kept track of points. With this game, you could form teams to see who could make the longest sentence.
Laying out their cards to see what everyone had.
Happy Learning!
Shannon
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