Silly Sentences
When?
This activity could be scaled up or down depending on the vocabulary used. This could be used as individual work at a center at a table or at a pocket chart. This will help teach sentence structure to students by having them create sentences on their own that are grammatically correct.
How?
The teacher will have to prep this activity before hand. Words are color coded and laminated, for example all of the articles would be one color, and all of the nouns a different color, and so on. The pocket chart will have a guide at the top, so students can easily create a sentence by placing words under the corresponding colors. Once a sentence is created, the student will write a story using the sentence.
Materials?
Why?
Students need practice creating more complicated sentences on their own. This is an opportunity for students to play with words and how a sentence sounds and feel successful knowing it is grammatically correct. Once students become more familiar with the structure, they may be able to incorporate these structures into their own independent writing.
Resources:
http://firstgradefresh.blogspot.com/2012/01/workstation-revamp-silly-sentences.html
This activity could be scaled up or down depending on the vocabulary used. This could be used as individual work at a center at a table or at a pocket chart. This will help teach sentence structure to students by having them create sentences on their own that are grammatically correct.
How?
The teacher will have to prep this activity before hand. Words are color coded and laminated, for example all of the articles would be one color, and all of the nouns a different color, and so on. The pocket chart will have a guide at the top, so students can easily create a sentence by placing words under the corresponding colors. Once a sentence is created, the student will write a story using the sentence.
Materials?
- Pocket Chart
- Empty Container to Store Words
- Laminated words color coded by type
- Paper
Why?
Students need practice creating more complicated sentences on their own. This is an opportunity for students to play with words and how a sentence sounds and feel successful knowing it is grammatically correct. Once students become more familiar with the structure, they may be able to incorporate these structures into their own independent writing.
Resources:
http://firstgradefresh.blogspot.com/2012/01/workstation-revamp-silly-sentences.html