This is a great activity for engaging active kids in learning how to spell. Spelling can be an inherently boring subject for children who are active. There isn't much action in just simply asking a child to spell words over and over so engage them with "The Silly Sentence Game!"
Try this:
- Make index or flash cards with one word on each card. Place cards in shoebox or container. Cards should be a mix of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verbs.
- Ask child to take out 3 cards and make sentence with those 3 words…the sentence can be silly. The whole idea is just to get them encouraged to want to construct and read a sentence. For example, they pull out the words: fish, car, and talk. Ask them to lay them out, and make a silly sentence. So the child puts the words in this order: car, talk and fish. Then they say, “The car drove down the street to take me to go talk to the fish.” Be sure to show excitement, no matter how silly the sentence.
- Add to this by pointing to each chosen word to teach whether it is a verb, noun, adjective, etc. Then mix the words up and you make a sentence with them for your child.
- Continue mixing them in the shoebox til you have made all the silly sentences you want.
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