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Echidna's Sentences
Reading a sentence: put the words in order to match the picture · ages 4-7
1. Warm-up, 5 minutes
Say a short sentence and have the class clap once for each word: "Frog. Puffs. Up." How many words?
2. The game, on the projector
Show the picture and ask the class what the sentence might say. Then a helper taps the words in order while the class reads each one aloud.
Projector mode is the game with ?projector on the end of its address. It's big and landscape, a win waits for you to press Next, and nothing is saved on the computer: no progress, no animal cards, no login.
3. Away from the screen
Sentence strips: groups get a cut-up sentence from a Little Roos Reader, build it, read it, then draw its picture.
Questions to ask
- Which word comes first? How do you know?
- Where does the full stop go?
- Can you change one word to make a new sentence?
Curriculum
- AC9EFLA06: recognise that sentences are made up of groups of words that work together in particular ways to make meaning
- AC9EFLY04: read decodable and authentic texts using developing phonic knowledge, and monitor meaning using context and emerging grammatical knowledge
- AC9EFLY12: write consonant–vowel–consonant (CVC) words by representing sounds with the appropriate letters, and blend sounds associated with letters when reading CVC words
- EYLF 5.4: Children begin to understand how symbols and pattern systems work
More detail, and every word it says: the page for grown-ups.