Children choose an animal card (peach) and then take it in turns to choose from the yellow, grey, green, blue, pink, pale
green, orange and red card piles until the have constructed a sentence, e.g. ‘The pink parrot flew lazily because it was
tired.’ The first child to complete their sentence wins.
Requires 6 copies of the green bordered game board, and 1 set each of the yellow, grey, peach, green, blue, pink, pale
green, orange and red word cards.
Game 4—Complex Sentences
Children choose an animal card (peach) and then take it in turns to choose from the yellow, grey, green and blue card piles
until they have constructed a sentence, e.g. ‘The sad mermaid swam slowly.’ The first child to build 2 sentences wins.
Requires 6 copies of the blue bordered game board, and 1 set each of the yellow, grey, peach, green and blue word cards.
Game 3—Adjectives and Adverbs
Children choose an animal card (peach) and then take it in turns to choose from the yellow, green and blue card piles until
they have constructed a sentence, e.g. ‘A dog sneezed loudly.’ The first child to build 3 sentences wins.
Requires 6 copies of the orange bordered game board, and 1 set each of the yellow, peach, green and blue word cards.
Game 2—Adverbs
Children choose an animal card (peach) and then take it in turns to choose from the yellow, grey and green card piles until
they have constructed a sentence, e.g. ‘The friendly cat ran.’ The first child to build 3 sentences wins.
Requires 6 copies of the red bordered game board, and 1 set each of the yellow, grey, peach and green word cards.
Game 1—Adjectives
For six players
Build-a-Sentence
The
The
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A
The
The
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A
A
A
The
The
A
A
The
The
A
A
The
The
scary
kind
sad
large
little
big
yellow
orange
black
green
red
brown
happy
small
pink
friendly
angry
purple
blue
shark
hen
donkey
monkey
panda
parrot
giraffe lion
dog
rabbit
cat
hamster
dragon
peacock
dolphin
mermaid
fish
elephant
tiger
mouse
moved
ran
moved
ran
hopped
hopped
sneezed crawled
walked
sneezed crawled
walked
ate
swam
ate
swam
drank
flew
drank
flew
quickly
loudly
slowly
thirstily hungrily
loudly
thirstily hungrily
fast
quickly
slowly
fast
suddenly
lazily
suddenly
lazily
swiftly
happily
swiftly
happily
because
because
because
because
and
and
and
and
but
but
but
but
when
when
when
when
as
as
as
as
it
he
she
he
it
he
she
he
it
she
he
it
she
she
he
it
she
she
he
it
was
was
felt
felt
was
was
felt
felt
felt
felt
was
was
felt
felt
was
was
felt
felt
was
was
starving
worried
nervous
thirsty
scared
excited
angry
hungry
ill
happy
cold
hot
sleepy
cross
busy
tired
energetic
grumpy
surprised
lazy