This free sentence-building activity is designed to give children a hands-on way to explore how sentences are put together. Children use the picture for support, cut out and arrange the word cards to build a sentence, and use the subject, verb and object prompts to help them understand the different parts of their sentence. They then become the teacher and add the missing punctuation themselves.

I created this as a simple, practical activity that can be used with the whole class, in a small intervention group or as an independent task. It is particularly useful for early writers and children who benefit from seeing and physically manipulating the parts of a sentence before writing independently.

The resource includes:

Five sentence-building activities, with photographs and mixed-up word cards for children to cut, order and edit.
My aim is to help children move beyond simply writing a sentence without understanding the fundamentals around how a sentence works; building confidence with sentence structure one step at a time.

And this is just the beginning! ♥ This is the first of many Little Lights Classroom resources I’m creating to support children with the foundations of writing and sentence structure. I’ll be adding lots more practical, engaging activities that break writing down into manageable steps and help children really understand how sentences are built.

Please follow Little Lights Classroom and keep an eye on my store for lots more exciting writing and sentence-building resources to come! ♥