Games and anchor charts

Sentence Builders

Sentence Builders takes the blank line away. Instead of staring at an empty page, your student builds a sentence one card at a time from seven color-coded piles: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, where phrases, when phrases, and articles.

Start with a noun and a verb. Add one card, then read the whole sentence out loud. Add another, read it again. Your student hears exactly what each new card adds. They finish by choosing "a" or "an" and checking the sentence with CAMPS. Every combination makes a grammatical sentence, so there is no wrong draw.

Three ways to play keep it fresh: flip the top card of each pile, choose from cards laid face up, or roll a die to decide how far down to count.

What's inside

• 147 picture cards in seven color-coded piles, with matching card backs
• A build-a-sentence mat with numbered slots and a CAMPS editing checklist
• A 2-page How to Use guide with setup, variations, and teaching ideas
• A printing guide for double-sided printing

Builds: complete sentences, expanding with describing words, choosing a or an, moving sentence parts around, capitals and end punctuation.

Good to know: start with just two piles and add more as your student is ready. Print on cardstock and laminate if you can.

Sentence Heist

Players take turns stealing words from a shared sentence, called the vault, and swapping in one of their own. Then the other player reads the whole sentence out loud and decides: does the new word still do the job?

If it doesn’t, the thief takes it back. If it does, the steal stays. To judge a steal, your student has to think about what each word is doing in the sentence. The ear learns first. The name comes next.

What's inside

• A game board with a reminder strip, starter sentences, and place tiles
• Two player decks of word cards and call cards, plus blank cards
• How to Play guides, with tips for 1:1 and two-student sessions
• The Vault Key, sorting every word by its job, and a score sheet

Builds: nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs by the job they do, reading aloud to check a sentence, explaining why a word fits, and vocabulary.

Good to know: a round takes about 10 to 15 minutes. Works 1:1 with you as the other player, or with two students.

Writing Games

Two games for complete sentences, capitals, and end punctuation, from two different directions.

In Roll & Write, your student rolls a die for each column, builds a sentence from the words, reads it out loud, and checks it with the CAMPS checklist. Every combination on the boards makes a correct sentence. In Fix-It Tic-Tac-Toe, every square hides one error, like a missing capital or the wrong end mark. Find it and fix it to claim the square. Three in a row wins.

What's inside

• 3 Roll & Write boards
• 3 Fix-It Tic-Tac-Toe boards with 9 sentences each
• 3 answer keys with tips for support staff
• A 1-page Quick Start guide

Builds: complete sentences, capitals, choosing a period or a question mark, reading aloud to check, and moving the "when" part of a sentence to the front with its comma.

Good to know: each game takes about 10 to 15 minutes. All you need is the printout, a die, and a pencil.

Writing and Grammar Anchor Charts

A matching set of 17 charts, each focused on one writing or grammar idea. Every chart has a short definition, a visual, examples, and a Watch Out box for the most common mistakes. Sentence structure charts show the patterns as building blocks, so students can see how a sentence fits together.

Each chart is labeled with the Structured Steps to Writing unit it supports, so they slot right in alongside the program. They work just as well on their own.

What's inside

• Parts of speech and sentence building: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and how to build a sentence
• Sentence variety: four sentence types, five sentence beginnings, simple, compound, and complex sentences, and appositives
• Grammar tools: prepositions, subject and object pronouns, contractions, and homophones
• Revising versus editing, plus commas, quotation marks, semicolons, and colons

Good to know: print as 18 x 24 inch posters or on letter-size paper. Both sizes are in the same file.

Parts of Speech Anchor Charts

"Wait... what’s an adjective again?" These four charts are for the student who needs a quick reminder right in the middle of a sentence.

Each one has a short definition, a picture for every category, and example words students can borrow. It’s a free sample of the full 17-chart set.

What's inside

• Nouns: person, place, thing, animal, and idea, plus common and proper nouns
• Verbs: action and linking verbs, with example words
• Adjectives: a before-and-after example and six kinds of describing words
• Adverbs: how, when, where, and how much

Good to know: print as 18 x 24 inch posters, or letter size for binders and folders.