What can you do when it's just before the holidays, your students can't concentrate, and you've depleted your bag of tricks? This hilarious sentence game is productive, easy, and will engage even the most squirrelly students. All you need is paper, pens, and a pair of scissors.
The instructions and pre-printed forms are available for free in my store. Click here to download. Or, follow these instructions:
1. Cut two paper strips for each student. Ask students to label one strip "If" and one strip "then."
2. Ask the students to write
the first part of a sentence on the “If” paper, such as: “If I go ice skating
over break,” and finish the sentence on the “then” paper, “then I will want to
bring my mittens.” You can direct them to a topic, such as the holidays, or
leave it open-ended.
3. When everyone has written
a sentence, collect the “If” papers in one basket, and all the “then” papers in
another basket.
4. Mix up the papers in each
basket and have each student draw a piece of paper from the “If” basket and the
“then” basket.
5. Go around the room and
have each student read his or her new sentence out loud.
