Sentence Building Dominoes 228pc

SENTENCE BUILDING DOMINOES ARE A FUN, HANDS-ON WAY FOR BEGINNING READERS TO LEARN PARTS OF SPEECH AND PRACTICE SENTENCE FORMATION SKILLS.  

Included are 114 double-sided, colour-coded dominoes (228 words and punctuation marks). There are: 46 blue nouns and endings, 28 light blue pronouns, 56 orange verbs and endings, 38 yellow adjectives, 20 green adverbs, 18 purple prepositions, 10 red conjunctions, and 12 white punctuation marks. Use the dominoes with small groups of students, or place them at a centre for hours of independent, skill-building learning.

Introducing the Sentence Building Dominoes

Encourage students to explore the sentence building dominoes, helping them to read any words that are difficult for them. Point out the different colour dominoes, and explain to students that they show different parts of speech (nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions) and punctuation marks. Remind students that a sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with a punctuation mark and point out those dominoes. Finally, point out the dominoes with the word endings – s -ed and -ing Explain that these dominoes may be added to others to make new words, for example: boy/boys and laugh/laughed. Nouns Have students separate the blue noun dominoes from the rest. Review the words on the dominoes, encouraging volunteers to read them aloud. Tell students that these words are all nouns. Choose three dominoes, such as children park and cake from the pile. Explain that a noun is a word that names a person, a place, or a thing. Ask students to classify each of the chosen words. Then write each category – person, place, or thing – on an index card or small bag. Invite students to sort the rest of the dominoes into the appropriate categories.

Ages 7+

Product Code: EI 2943