Title – Sentence Game

By – Athena Schrank

Primary Subject – Language Arts

Grade Level – Second

Have each child make a game board to practice recognizing types of sentences. Have the children make game boards with at least 20 squares of red, green, blue, and yellow. The squares should form a path leading to a picture of a reward of the maker’s choosing. Each child should make a spinner which is divided into four colors. When the children make their games, they should include at least twenty index cards on which they have written twenty sentences-five each of statements, questions, commands, and explanations-but without the end punctuation.

To play, the player spins the spinner and goes to the square of the indicated color. The player then chooses a sentence from the pile of sentences. If he or she can tell what kind of sentence it is, the player can stay on the square. If he or she cannot identify the sentence type, the player must return to the next square. The first player to reach the reward wins.

Gifted and talented students may adapt the game to be used with nouns. For example, the player who lands on a red square must think of a plural noun, the blue square could ask for the name of a month, and so on.

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