Sentence Building Activities

I met a teacher working with a small group of students having some problems with reading skills. The problem is the children don’t fully understand the books they read because they didn’t fully understand how to put sentences together. The children can retell the story and describe what happens in general terms. They can describe the characters and what they do. They can even describe the setting, although not in great detail. What they need is practice with is putting words together to create a sentence. To help solve this problem, the teacher uses FlinkMake to create an interactive sentence-building game on the computer in minutes.


The interactive activity is graphical and engaging, with an appealing Flinkster character. Children see scrambled words that make up a sentence. They must drag the words to the empty boxes to correctly build the sentence. The activity provides immediate feedback without the judgment children often associate with their teacher’s feedback. The teacher can make an activity with twenty or thirty problems in minutes by just entering twenty or thirty short sentences.

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