Page 14 - Literacy Skills

COLOURFUL

SENTENCES

• Work with a partner; both children have their 6 bricks
randomly spread in front of them.
• Teacher calls out a word, e.g. “car”.
• Child No. 1 makes up a sentence around that word,
using bricks for each key word, and building the
sentence into a tower; turn tower on its side and
“read” L to R.
• No repetition allowed in the sentence.
• Child No. 2 builds the sentence tower and repeats
the sentence.
• Swop over.

Variations:

• Increase the length of the sentence and bricks.

HOW MANY

WORDS CAN

YOU HEAR?

• Place your 6 bricks in your lap.
• The teacher says: I am going to say a
sentence. I want you to listen and place a
brick horizontally for every word you hear in the
sentence. Let’s try one together: “I sit on the
chair.” How many words in that sentence?
• Learners place 5 bricks horizontally on their
desk.
• Give other sentences, e.g. “Can you run fast?”
(4 bricks), etc.

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