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Games for Types of Sentences

Teachers are always on the lookout for games to help strengthen concepts they teach in the classroom. One such topic involves sentence types, which can range from teaching about statements and questions to teaching about complex and simple sentences. Fortunately, Internet resources provide fun, interactive games for students to play both in and out of the classroom.
  1. Types of Sentence Game

    • Ed on the Web (edontheweb.com) offers a simple and colorful game for young children that teaches them about different types of sentences. The student clicks on the game to begin, and receives a lesson from Ed the Owl on the different types of sentences. Once the tutorial is over, the students begin a game that incorporates the previous lesson, in which they are asked a variety of questions regarding sentences, such as what type of sentence it is and which punctuation belongs at the end. If they get the answer wrong, Ed provides the correct answer before moving on to the next questions.

    Acting It Out

    • In this game, the parent or teacher demonstrates each of the sentence types (statement, question, exclamation and command) and acts out how each would be used in real life. Then the teacher hands out a variety of sentences to the students, who must then act out the type of sentence in the same way the teacher or parent did. All sentence types do not have to be given at once; in fact, educators and parents can start with a couple of sentence types, adding others as the students progress.

    Sentence Clubhouse

    • The Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School Publishers page (harcourtschool.com/activity/clubhouse) contains a game titled Sentence Clubhouse in which students build a clubhouse using different types of sentences as their materials. For example, if the student wants a brick clubhouse, he must select the statement button and answer the questions that follow correctly. If he is successful, he receives that material.

    Sentence Sort

    • Another fun game from The Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School Publishers Page (harcourtschool.com/activity/sensort/index_pre.html), this game for older children (around fifth grade) deals with simple, complex and compound sentences. Students are provided a board game with a spinner, on which they must click to begin. The goal is to move the dog through the park by answering each question, which asks the student to correctly identify a sentence as simple, compound or complex. If the student is incorrect, he must spin again.

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