Select a short, simple passage to use. Make sure that it is short enough to fit on one 24 inch by 36 inch poster board with large enough print for the whole class to read. Consider using a short poem or saying that your students are familiar with.
Write the passage on three inch high sentence strips with black marker. Omit the words that correspond with the parts of speech you are teaching. For example, if you are teaching nouns, leave a blank space where all of the nouns would go.
Glue the sentence strips to the poster board.
Cut enough blank pieces of sentence strip paper to have two or three pieces per blank space in your passage. You will want more than that (three to five) if you are working on synonyms. Affix a piece of velcro or magnetic tape to the back of each cut piece and the corresponding piece to the center of the blank space in the passage.
Explain to the class that you are going to play a game, but do not show them the chart.
Challenge your students to make a list of words corresponding to your target part of speech. For example, if you left all of the nouns in your passage blank, ask the students to make a list of nouns. You can have them write synonyms for a logical word choice changing the chart activity to a vocabulary lesson instead of a grammar lesson.
Write your student's words on all of the cards that you cut except one for each blank space.
Uncover the literacy chart so the class can see it. Place the cards that the students labeled on the chart in the order that the students said them. You will have created a silly passage. Alternatively, fill the blanks with the synonyms for logical word choices that your students found, for a vocabulary lesson.
Read the passage with the class. Take turns if you are also working on fluency, or read it to them if you want to focus on the grammar lesson. Let the class laugh and be silly in response to the passage.
Write the original words to complete the passage on the cards you set aside. Replace your students' words with the original text. Re-read the passage.