One of my tutor students needed a bit of help with her
sentences. She was great with her basic sentences but getting her to expand on
those was a bit harder. She would add a
detail here or there, but it was hard for her to see where she could add more.
To make this tedious task fun, I came up with this “Building
Better Sentences” activity.
This activity allowed Allie to see the basic sentence and then
add the adjectives where she thought they sounded best. To my surprise, instead
of just adding one or two adjectives, she made it a challenge to try to use all
of them. This in turn, gave me a great teaching opportunity.
When she was done with the sentences we were able to talk
about how the adjectives worked in the sentence she created, as well as
deciding if they were really needed or if the sentence sounded better without
certain words.
Overall, this turned out to be a great activity, and with
continued playing, she is getting to the point of adding those adjectives
automatically.
You can find this in either one of my stores.
Enjoy!
Great activity! Thanks for sharing. :)
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Thanks Brandee, my kids had a lot of fun with this.
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I love this teaching activity! Having fun while learning is really the best way to educate kids. If only more tutors and teachers as well will be creative like you, then I'm sure that more kids will enjoy learning just as they do with playing. Keep it up, Shawna!
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