Build-a-Sentence

For six players

Game 1Adjectives

Requires 6 copies of the red bordered game board, and 1 set each of the yellow, grey, peach and green word cards.
Children choose an animal card (peach) and then take it in turns to choose from the yellow, grey and green card piles until they have constructed a sentence, e.g. The friendly cat ran. The first child to build 3 sentences wins. Game 2Adverbs

Requires 6 copies of the orange bordered game board, and 1 set each of the yellow, peach, green and blue word cards.
Children choose an animal card (peach) and then take it in turns to choose from the yellow, green and blue card piles until they have constructed a sentence, e.g. A dog sneezed loudly. The first child to build 3 sentences wins. Game 3Adjectives and Adverbs

Requires 6 copies of the blue bordered game board, and 1 set each of the yellow, grey, peach, green and blue word cards.
Children choose an animal card (peach) and then take it in turns to choose from the yellow, grey, green and blue card piles until they have constructed a sentence, e.g. The sad mermaid swam slowly. The first child to build 2 sentences wins. Game 4Complex Sentences

Requires 6 copies of the green bordered game board, and 1 set each of the yellow, grey, peach, green, blue, pink, pale green, orange and red word cards.
Children choose an animal card (peach) and then take it in turns to choose from the yellow, grey, green, blue, pink, pale green, orange and red card piles until the have constructed a sentence, e.g. The pink parrot flew lazily because it was tired. The first child to complete their sentence wins.

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The

The

The

The

The

The

The

The

The

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red

green

pink

blue

black

orange

yellow

purple angry

big
scary

little

large
sad

small

kind

happy

friendly

cat rabbit

dog

hamster

mouse

elephant

giraffe lion

tiger

fish

monkey

donkey

parrot

dolphin

peacock

shark

hen

panda

mermaid

dragon

ran

walked

hopped

swam

flew

moved

sneezed crawled

ate

drank

ran

walked

hopped

swam

flew

moved

sneezed crawled

ate

drank

fast

slowly

quickly

lazily

happily

thirstily hungrily

loudly

suddenly

swiftly

fast

slowly

quickly

lazily

happily

thirstily hungrily

loudly

suddenly

swiftly

and

because

but

when

as

and

because

but

when

as

and

because

but

when

as

and

because

but

when

as

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it

it

it

it

he

he

he

he

he

she

she

she

she

she

he

he

it

she

she

was

was

was

was

was

was

was

was

was

was

felt

felt

felt

felt

felt

felt

felt

felt

felt

felt

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starving

hot

tired

lazy

excited

worried

cold

busy

surprised

angry

nervous

happy

cross

grumpy

hungry

thirsty

ill

sleepy

energetic