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[Ya-ta Boy]

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My co-teacher and I have been struggling with our Grade 1 boys to get them to remember how to make Y/N questions out of sentences. It seems so simple to us, but the boys were frustrated and just not getting it. It was painful for all of us.

Today we played Sentence Scrambles and it did more to straighten out the problem than anything else we have done.

We divided them into teams of 4 or 5 students, making sure each team had at least one stronger student. Then we made them number off so they would take turns going to the board.

Next, we wrote a scrambled sentence at the top of the board.

Each team worked out the correct word order, capital letters and punctuation in the group. Their representative then ran to the board and wrote the sentence. The winner was the group who finished with a 100% correct sentence. The best examples were when they wrote a sentence and in the next round had to change it to a question. The first time we did that to them they were confused and it took a while for any group to get it right, but by the third example, they had it down.

We would like to improve our activity by increasing the amount of speaking. As it is, the activity focuses on word order, but allows only reading and writing; the only only speaking is shouting out a correction.

Anyone with any ideas?

[JacktheCat]

[Ya-ta Boy]