This is such a wonderful product for syntax! I love how it involves a breakfast food theme- every type of word, adjective, adverb, noun, verb, etc., has its own breakfast food. I think this is such a great idea. You can easily sort different parts of speech into their respective categories, and you can easily see how adding a different part of speech (or two) can change the meaning of the sentence.
Kelly provides a scoring rubric for how many points each part of speech and each type of sentence is worth. Each person gets a place-mat with a plate, and you are ready to go! There are such a wide variety of words (240 cards included!), as well as blank cards of each part of speech for you to add your own. Parts of speech included are:
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- article
- pronoun
- preposition
- auxiliary verb
- interrogative
- adverb
- conjunction
Kelly has included sentence building templates for those students who need a little extra help just starting out.
She has also included two carryover activities- Scrambled Sort (unscramble the sentences and put them in the right order), and Scrambled Eggs in a Cup (unscramble the directions).
What I love:
- The breakfast theme and how each part of speech has its own breakfast food.
- There are literally SO many different cards-the sentence possibilities are endless.
- Not only can you target sentence structure, you have the opportunity to discuss parts of speech, what makes a complete sentence, expanding sentence length, etc. There are endless possibilities with this!
- The carryover/practice activities are GREAT! There are plenty of opportunities for practice.
- My students love making up silly sentences (even though that's technically not part of the rules, it's a fun extra way to play!).
- The sentence templates are so great- I love using them for my kiddos who need to expand on their sentence length. Everything is laid out for you!
You can get this great product here! Check out Kelly's blog, Facebook, and Teachers pay Teachers pages too!
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