Sentence Building Strips

Games & Activities

English Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas

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Description

Master Sentence Construction with Interactive Sentence Building Strips!

The Sentence Building Strips Pack provides a comprehensive and engaging resource for teaching students foundational grammar and sentence construction skills. Through hands-on activities, students learn to create sentences using articles, adjectives, nouns, and verbs, fostering creativity and language confidence. This versatile pack is perfect for literacy centres, group activities, and independent practise.

What’s Included:

Sentence Building Strips:

A range of sentence templates featuring structured prompts (Article, Adjective, Noun, Verb) to guide students in forming complete sentences.
Illustrated examples to inspire creative and meaningful sentence creation.

Option B Sentence Strips:

Additional templates with varied word combinations to extend practise opportunities.

Assessment Rubric:

A detailed rubric to evaluate sentence structure, grammar, creativity, and picture matching accuracy, helping track student progress and provide constructive feedback.

Suitable for

Relief Teachers

Lesson Structure

Individual Activity
Rotations / Group Work
Class Activity

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Curriculum Codes

AC9EFLA05 9

Recognise that sentences are key units for expressing ideas

AC9E1LA06 9

Understand that a simple sentence consists of a single independent clause representing a single event or idea

AC9E1LA07 9

Understand that words can represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs)

AC9E2LA07 9

Understand that in sentences nouns may be extended into noun groups using articles and adjectives, and verbs may be expressed as verb groups

ACELA1435 8.4

Recognise that sentences are key units for expressing ideas

ACELA1451 8.4

Identify the parts of a simple sentence that represent ‘What’s happening?’, ‘What state is being described?’, ‘Who or what is involved?’ and the surrounding circumstances

ACELA1452 8.4

Explore differences in words that represent people, places and things (nouns, including pronouns), happenings and states (verbs), qualities (adjectives) and details such as when, where and how (adverbs)

ACELA1468 8.4

Understand that nouns represent people, places, concrete objects and abstract concepts; that there are three types of nouns: common, proper and pronouns; and that noun groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectives

ENe-9B old

Demonstrates developing skills and knowledge in grammar, punctuation and vocabulary when responding to and composing texts

EN1-4A old

Draws on an increasing range of skills and strategies to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on less familiar topics in different media and technologies

EN1-9B old

Uses basic grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary appropriate to the type of text when responding to and composing texts

ENE-OLC-01 new

Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language with familiar peers and adults

ENE-VOCAB-01 new

Understands and effectively uses Tier 1 words and Tier 2 words in familiar contexts

ENE-RECOM-01 new

Comprehends independently read texts using background knowledge, word knowledge and understanding of how sentences connect

EN1-RECOM-01 new

Comprehends independently read texts that require sustained reading by activating background and word knowledge, connecting and understanding sentences and whole text, and monitoring for meaning

EN1-CWT-01 new

Plans, creates and revises texts written for different purposes, including paragraphs, using knowledge of vocabulary, text features and sentence structure

VCELA143

Recognise that sentences are key units for expressing ideas

VCELA178

Identify the parts of a simple sentence that represent ‘What’s happening?’, ‘Who or what is involved?’ and the surrounding circumstances

VCELA179

VCELA216

Understand that nouns represent people, places, things and ideas and include common, proper, concrete or abstract, and that noun groups/phrases can be expanded using articles and adjectives

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