What are sentence building cards?

Sentence building cards are a teaching aid that is inexpensive and easy to make and use.

They are useful to give learners practice in

• word recognition, and
• sentence recognition and building.

Sentence building cards are a teaching aid. They allow learners to build sentences by matching individual words to words in a sentence that has already been written.

Each set of sentence building cards consists of

• a large sentence card with pictures and sentences, and
• several small word cards.

The large sentence card has several illustrations drawn in boxes down the left side of the card. Each illustration has a sentence written in a box beside it. The illustrations serve as clues to the sentences.

The small word cards have words that match the words in the sentences on the sentence card.

The learner

• looks at the pictures
• reads the sentences, and
• builds the same sentences by placing the matching word cards in the space below the sentences.

Here is an example of a set of sentence building cards:

• Sentence building cards

• What is a sentence building grid?

• Brown, G. 1984

• Concept module: sentence building cards
• In overview module: Glossary (Literacy): S
• In modular book: Glossary of literacy terms
• In document collection: Reference materials
• In bookshelf: Literacy

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