Unscramble the Sentences - Amrita Learning Equality

Unscrambling sentences is a widely used method to teach children the structure of sentences. Struggling readers find it difficult to understand the ... Togglenavigation Home Mainnavigation English Hindi Malayalam Tamil Telugu French SelectFont Raleway Ubuntu Dyslexic Arial UnscrambletheSentences Activity Intro Howtouse Resources Activity Unscramblingsentencesisawidelyusedmethodtoteachchildrenthestructureofsentences.Strugglingreadersfinditdifficulttounderstandthesequencesofwordsinasentence.Thiscomesinthewayofcomprehendingwhattheyread.Poorunderstandingofsentencestructuresalsomakesthempoorinmemorizingwhatisreadbecausetheyarenotabletoorganizeorsummarizewhattheyhaveread.Whattheyreaddoesn’tgetstoredintheirlongtermmemoryandthereforetheycan’trecallorrememberwhattheyhadread.Learningtounscramblesentenceshelpspoorreaderstobebetterreaders,writers,andhelpsthemtobebetterorganizedinstoringinformation. Thebenefitsofthisactivity,UnscrambletheSentence,arelistedbelow. UnscrambletheSentenceisagoodactivitytounderstandthepatterns,sequencesandstructureofsentences. Thisactivityhelpschildrentounderstandpatternsinasentence.Almostallthesentencesusedinthisactivityareinactivevoice.Thesubject(thepersonwhodoestheactionoraboutwhomwearetalkingabout)comesfirst.Whatthesubjectdoes(verb)comesnextinthesentence.Wedescribe(adjective)thesubjectorotherobjects(nouns).Thenthereare–adverb,pronoun,prepositionetc.Agoodgraspofusageofpartsofspeechisrequiredtowritegoodsentences.Thesequenceinwhichtheseappearistobeunderstood.Somestrugglingreadersfailtounderstandthesequenceofwords.Childrenshouldalsoknowtheuseofsingularverbs.Theyshouldlearnabouttenses.Thisactivityhelpsthemtolearnthebasicsofgrammar.Agoodknowledgeofsentencestructurehelpsstudentstopredictwhatcomesnext.Theycanbecomefluentreadersandwriters. EmphasisonCapitallettersatthebeginningofasentenceandpunctuationattheend. Strugglingreadersoftenomittostartasentencewithacapitalletterandtheydon’tusepunctuationattheendofasentence.Capitalletterandpunctuationarecluesforunscramblingthesentences.Thechildislikelytobemoreawareoftheuseofcapitalletterandpunctuationmarks.Thismaybeagoodremedialmeasureforthosewhofailtousecapitallettersandpunctuation. Improvementinvocabularyandcomprehension. Anyactivityinvolvingreadingorwritingimprovesvocabularyandcomprehension.Thisactivityalsoimprovesthevocabularyandcomprehensionofchildren.Inthisactivity,frequentlyusedwordsareonlyincludedandchildrencanbecomefamiliarwithcommonlyusedwords. Thisactivityhassixsections.Thechallengeistounscramblethesentences.Giveyourchildmorepractice.Thesentencescanbetakenfromthechild’stextbooks,storybooks,oryoucanmakeyourownsentences.Searchthenetforsentenceexamples.Youcangetavarietyofsentencesfromthenet. Tipsforparents: TranslationworkisrarelyusedathometoteachchildrenEnglish.PeculiaritiesofEnglishcanbebetterunderstoodbycomparingEnglishwithyourmothertongue.Whetherweadmititornot,silenttranslationisgoingoninourbrainfrommothertonguetoEnglishandfromEnglishtomothertongue. Usetranslationactivityathome.DictatedailytensentencesinyourmothertongueandmakeyourchildtranslatethemtoEnglish.ThechildcanalsobemadetotranslatesentencesinEnglishtomothertongue.Usageofhasandhave;doesanddocauseenormousconfusion.InEnglish,bothsingularandpluralverbsareusedwith‘I’.Example:IhaveandIwas.ItisdifficultforthechildtounderstandtheusageofyouinEnglish.Theverbusedwith‘you’isalwaysplural.Example:Youare,Youhave.Weteachthechildrentousesingularverbwithsingularsubject(he,she,it).WeuseShehasorsheeats.Butwithdoesweusepluralverb.Example:Doeshehave....?Doesheeat.....?Allthesecauseconfusiontothechild. ComparethestructureofsentencesinmothertonguewiththestructureofsentencesinEnglish.Thiswouldhelpyourchild. Useofcapitalletterandpunctuation.Tellyourchildthatasentencestartswithacapitalletterandendswithpunctuation.Thishelpsthechildtoidentifytheheadandtailofthesentence.Oncethisisdone,thenthechallengeistorearrangetheremainingwordstomakeasentence.Makethemawareoftheneedtousecapitallettersandpunctuation. Teachyourchildpartsofspeech.Yourchildcanbeabetterreaderandwriterifshe/heisawareofthepartsofspeech.Athoroughunderstandingofwhatisnoun,adjective,verbandadverbhelpsthechildtouselanguagepurposefully.Thiswouldalsomakeher/himunderstandthesequenceofpartsofspeechinasentence. Teachyourchildtenses.Correctuseoftensesisrequiredforeffectivecommunication.Childrenusetensescorrectlywhenspeakingorwritingintheirmothertongue.ButtheygetconfusedabouttheuseoftenseswhenusingEnglish.AmismatchoftensesisacommonmistakemadebychildrenlearningEnglishasaforeignlanguage.Spendtimewithyourchildrentomakethemproficientintheuseoftenses. TeachthepeculiaritiesofEnglishthroughtheuseoftranslationfromthemothertonguetoEnglishandfromEnglishtothemothertongue. Usedictionaries.EnglishisauniversallanguageandexpertiseinEnglishisrequiredtodowellinhigherstudiesandtogetwellpayingjobs.AgooddictionaryisamusttoteachchildrenEnglish.Initially,childrencanusepocketdictionaries.Butparentscanstartusingdictionariesmeantforadvancedstudents. Pocket/AdvancedEnglishdictionary. MothertonguedictionarywithmeaningsinEnglishalso. Englishtomothertonguedictionary. Theuseofamothertonguetomothertonguedictionaryimprovesthevocabularyandcomprehensionofyourchildren.Strugglingreadershavepoorvocabularyandcomprehensionskills.Youcanpreparealistof1000commonlyusedwords.Thewordlistcanhavenouns,verbs,adjectivesandadverbs.Commonlyusednouns,verbs,adjectivesandadverbscanbeaccessedfromtheinternet.HavethelistinbothEnglishandthemothertongue.Youcanquizyourchild:Whatdowesayfor_____inEnglish?Orwhatdowesayfor_____inmothertongue? Thesecanbeoralactivities.Writingthesedownwouldtaketime.Alsoalotofwordscanbecoveredinanoralactivityinalimitedtime.Askthechildrentotellsentencesusingthesewords.Ifyouareteachingtheword,intelligent(adjective)talkaboutintelligence(noun)andintelligently(adverb). Masteryactivity:Haveyourchildpreparetestsforyou!Lether/himcorrectyouranswers. Theinternethasmanyexercisesonunscramblingsentences. Start Proofreading SentenceStrips-JointoMakeaSentence Comprehension