READING and WRITING OPTIONS 

Writing Options: Word Work

Silly Sentences

Objective:

Students create silly sentences using three cards [name, action, object].  They point and tap each word as they read it. 

Materials:

Pocket Chart

Pointers

When to Introduce:

After students have had exposure to listening for, identifying, and creating rhymes, I introduce this task.

How to Introduce:

Gather students at the pocket chart.

Distribute student picture/name cards to each student (don't have to give them theirs necessarily).

Distribute action picture/word cards.

Distribute object picture/word cards.

Calling one student to the front at a time, have them place their cards into the pocket chart.

Demonstrate how to read each sentence with the pointer by tapping each word as they read it.

Show the class the container/drawer/bin where the activity will be stored.

Have students place their cards into the drawer.

Remind students that when they go to the Pocket Chart Literacy Corner, they may do the activity.

Differentiating:

Have students write their own silly sentences.

Have students write the silly sentences they constructed.

Storage Ideas:

The activity is stored in a vinyl [plastic] pencil case

I've purchased these pencil cases Target, Wal-Mart, Office Max, Office Depot, Walgreen's, etc.

The container is labeled with a sticker that indicates where the item belongs (pocket chart corner), and with a title, and picture of what the activity is.

The pencil case is then stored in it's own drawer of a Sterilite storage unit that is located on a shelf next to the pocket chart.