Sentence Strings

• DOMAIN(S)

  Communication, Language, and Literacy (CLL)
• INDICATOR(S)

  CLL4.3b
• AGE GROUP(S)

  36-48 months

Start with a short sentence and encourage the children to make it longer and longer. Give them Unifix® cubes to match each word they use. Start with, “The dog ran.” Ask the child, “What can you say about the dog, maybe its color?” The sentence becomes, “The brown dog ran.” Ask the child, “Where did he run to?” and the sentence becomes “The brown dog ran to meet a friend.” Ask the child, “Why was he meeting his friend?” The sentence ends as, “The brown dog ran to meet a friend so they could eat lunch together.” Write the sentence on a sentence strip, have the child place one Unifix® cube for each word and count the total number of words. Challenge the children to make longer and longer sentences each time.

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