Featured Activity Kit: The Big Box of Sentence Building
The Big Box of Sentence Building is a fun yet instructive game that helps develop English literacy. Meant for children five years of age and older, this activity kit provides a colourful and interactive alternative to learning how to read, write, and formulate sentences in English. With 250 word and punctuation puzzle pieces, the Big Box of Sentence Building is perfect for those visual and hands-on learners, and for those looking for a little bit of fun!
Along with its 250 word and punctuation puzzle pieces, the Big Box of Sentence Building also comes with a 4-page resource guide that includes directions, suggestions for teachers on how to use the kit, and possible games to play in the classroom. The tiles themselves are both connective and colour-coded. While the connectivity of the tiles allows for ease-of-play, each colour of the tile is indicative of the part of speech that is represented by the word or punctuation printed on the tile. This helps to provide visual aid for learners who need help in differentiating between the different parts of speech. The parts of speech included in this kit are: Action, Linking, & Helping Verbs, Nouns, Adjectives, Adverbs, Pronouns, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Articles, Pronoun/Determiners and Punctuation Marks. The kit also includes four blank spaces that allow students to create their own puzzle pieces.
Teachers can use this kit when giving lessons on punctuation, grammar and sentence formulation. It is also a great resource when building a student’s vocabulary and fluency, helping to improve sight recognition and showing students the many ways that the different parts of speech are meant to, and not meant to, fit together. With this kit, students are able to interact and experiment with the English language first hand in a fun and visually-stimulating way. With 250 tiles, many combinations of parts of speech are possible, providing students with a great source of practice.
The Big Box of Sentence Building kit is currently on display on the ground floor of the OISE Library next to the service desk—please feel free to check it out!
