Silly Sentences — Build a Sentence from Word Cards

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1. Take cards from the different colours — a noun, a verb, an adjective.
2. Slot them into their places on the board.
3. Read the sentence you have built out loud.
4. Laugh at it, then swap one card and read it again.
5. Move up a level and add more words to the sentence.

• Sentence structure — which kind of word goes where
• Parts of speech, learned by colour before they are learned by name
• Reading aloud, with a reward at the end of every sentence
• Understanding that a sentence can be correct and still be nonsense

• Swap only the adjective and see how much the sentence changes
• Build a sentence that is true, which is harder than it sounds
• Let your child build one for you to read