Build a Sentence: Fall Edition

What your students do

Kids build a sentence one step at a time. First they put a Who card with a Doing What card: "The pig digs." Then a partner asks "Where?" and they add a Where card: "The pig digs in the mud." Last, they add a capital and a period and check the whole sentence. Every card has a picture, so even your earliest readers can build and read on their own.

Why teachers love it

Each step has its own teacher note, work mat, recording sheet, and self-check cards, so you can meet each child at the right step and move them up when they are ready. Picture symbols and color coding help pre-readers sort the cards, and the Roll a Sentence game turns silly sentences into a real question: does it make sense?

What's included

• 40 fall sentences built from a Who + Doing What + Where pattern
• 120 full-color picture cards, plus the same cards in black and white
• Capital and period cards (big pocket chart cards and small mat cards), plus question mark cards
• 4 posters and a sentence anchor page with a "Check my sentence" list
• A whole-class lesson (I do, we do, you do) that models all 3 steps
• 3 landscape work mats, one for each step
• Recording sheets and 40 Write and Draw pages
• Self-check cards and 40 self-check answer strips
• Roll a Sentence dice game
• Assessments, exit tickets, a checklist rubric, and a data tracking sheet
• A 54-slide PowerPoint for whole-class modeling

Perfect for

• Kindergarten literacy centers
• Small groups and intervention
• Morning work
• Fall and Halloween weeks
• Review for early 1st grade, speech, and ESL groups

Standards

Kindergarten Common Core ELA L.K.1.b, L.K.1.e, L.K.1.f, L.K.2.a, L.K.2.b, and W.K.5. The full wording is in the resource.