SENTENCE SEQUENCING:



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|What is it? | |

|An activity/game that allows children to practice combining nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc to make a sentence.    | |

|"Helpers" is the term I am using to describe articles, conjunctions, punctuation and the passive verb "was".  It is the last template in | |

|the set -- you may want to print two of these helpers templates so you have extras. | |

|Nouns - I've provided 8 nouns.  If your children really enjoy these games/activites, that may not be enough.  Provide them with some blank | |

|cards and clipart or magazine pictures and let them create some additional noun cards. | |

|Verbs - I've provided 6 verbs.  It's hard to show verbs as images, but I hope I've done ok.  I colored the background of the verb cards to | |

|help distinguish them.   | |

|You have a choice between past tense and present tense verbs.  I would print one or the other, not both since the images are the same for | |

|both templates. | |

|Colors - 6 color cards are provided.  If you chose the B&W templates, you'll need to color in these cards.  You can create additional color| |

|cards on your own if you want extras.  You can also create your own additional adjective cards (fat, thin, tall, short, etc) using | |

|drawings, coloring books, clipart, magazines, etc. | |

|Emotions - I've provided 4 emotions cards.  Again, it's a bit tough to show these as images, but I think they turned out ok. | |

|NOTE:  This page is fairly long -- the templates are all the way at the bottom. | |

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|Activity Suggestions | |

|1.  Free Play | |

|arrange the cards into piles (the verbs have a colored background to make it a tad easier for the kids to sort things) | |

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|allow the children to create their own sentences using the cards.   | |

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|If you pre-sort the cards for them it makes it simpler.  You may not want to provide them with all the sets at once.  Here are some set | |

|ideas. | |

|three piles:  helpers, nouns and emotions   | |

|Example sentence:  The boy was happy. | |

|four piles:  helpers, nouns, verbs and nouns | |

|Example sentence:  The boy ate the apple. | |

|five piles:  helpers, nouns, verbs, colors and nouns. | |

|Example sentence:  The boy ate a red apple. | |

|six piles:  helpers, emotions, nouns, verbs, colors and nouns. | |

|Example sentence:  The happy boy ate a red apple. | |

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|Get silly!  It's fun to create silly sentences (like "The angry boy ate a green monster.")  Encouraging the children to create silly | |

|sentences can help keep them involved and motivated in this activity. | |

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|ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY:  Have the child spend some time creating their favorite sentence.   | |

|Once the sentence is completed, encourage them to write (or dictate, depending on their skill level) a short story to go with the sentence.| |

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|With young children, 3 sentences is a great story length.  It helps reinforce the fact that a story has a BEGINNING, a MIDDLE and an END.  | |

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|Let them illustrate their story (draw pictures). | |

|Talk about the roles of the author and the illustrator of a story. | |

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|2.  Memory (Guided) Play | |

|In this activity, we'll use sight (showing), sound (reading) and repetition (memory) to reinforce sentence structure. | |

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|arrange the cards into piles (the verbs have a colored background to make it a tad easier for the kids to sort things)  If you pre-sort the| |

|cards for them it makes it simpler.  You may not want to provide them with all the sets at once.  Here are some set ideas. | |

|three piles:  helpers, nouns and emotions   | |

|Example sentence:  The boy was happy. | |

|four piles:  helpers, nouns, verbs and nouns | |

|Example sentence:  The boy ate the apple. | |

|five piles:  helpers, nouns, verbs, colors and nouns. | |

|Example sentence:  The boy ate a red apple. | |

|six piles:  helpers, emotions, nouns, verbs, colors and nouns. | |

|Example sentence:  The happy boy ate a red apple. | |

|Create a sentence, show it to the child and read it aloud twice.  | |

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|Now put one of the cards back in the appropriate (noun, verb, emotion, color) pile  | |

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|(you may want to mix up the pile and then set some or all the pile out so the child can see their options, like so: | |

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|Now have the child chose the correct card from memory to replicate the sentence you showed them. | |

|When the child has mastered replacing a single card, try removing two of the cards (maybe kissed and dinosaur in our example above).  Then | |

|remove three, etc.  Progressively make the sentences longer until they are successfully replicating complex sentences -- For example, "The | |

|happy dinosaur and the green monster ate a red apple."  | |

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|Eventually you can move away from showing them the sentence.  You can just READ the sentence to them and have them replicate it. | |

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|Don't forget to throw in some silly sentences to keep the children's energy level up! | |

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|Template Instructions | |

|Flash card type templates.  You can use these in a variety of activities (see activity suggestions above).  | |

|Print out the template of choice.  | |

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|Colour pieces, as necessary.  | |

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|OPTIONAL:  Glue to a thin piece of cardboard (ex:  old cereal boxes) and let dry (you can also laminate or cover with clear contact paper | |

|to make them last longer) | |

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|Cut out the cards.  This step may require adult assistance.  | |

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|Close the template window after printing to return to this screen. | |

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|Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).  | |

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|6 NOUNS   (color)   or   (B&W) | |

|2 MORE NOUNS + 4 EMOTIONS   (color)   or   (B&W) | |

|6 VERBS (past tense)   (color)   or   (B&W) | |

|6 VERBS (present tense)   (color)   or   (B&W) | |

|(I would only print one of the verb templates as the images are the same) | |

|6 ADJECTIVES - COLORS   (color)   or   (B&W) | |

|6 HELPERS   (color)   or   (B&W) | |

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|Word Families (phonics) theme | |

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