Green (approaching grade-level) – capital letters, punctuation attached to last word
Yellow (on grade-level) – no capital letters, punctuation is unattached to the last word
Blue (above grade-leve) – no capital letters, punctuation is unattached, the must-know word is a blank where students have to arrange the sentences and then, decide which of their must-know words fit
Although sometimes when students get really ‘stumped’ (i.e. the pink sentence) they will take a break from that sentence and try another one. When they go back, they can almost always figure it out. It’s sweet to see the lightbulb moments. If friends have tried with a partner AND taken a break, to no avail – they may ask me for a hint. When students ask for a hint, I will give them the first 2 words or the last 2 words of the sentence.
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Lena Troxtell says
I really like this idea. Great way to work with sentence structure and context clues within a sentence for unknown words.
~*~Lena~*~
4th Grade with Glitter
Raye says
I don't use it but plan to start now. What a great idea! I especially love that you have them "level up" because I think you are right that it excites them to know they are making that progress. I'm going to think about how I can incorporate this with my 3rd graders.
Chris Saunders says
Catherine–if a student does not complete their word scramble paper in one day, do they have a folder for work to be finished another day? Thanks Chris
Em Hutchison says
I really like doing these scrambles too!! Mine happen in my small group bc I am title. But it gives me so much information about the student! And I can even differentiate by the amount of words per sentence. Such a great post!! Thanks for giving me some more to think about!
Em
Curious firsties
Netalia Laconti-Riggle says
Where do you get the sentences you use?
Joy Simpson says
Can you share sentences that correlate to 1st grade Reading Street? Are you using high frequency words, amazing word or spelling words? Thanks.
Joy Simpson says
Can you share sentences that correlate to 1st grade Reading Street? Are you using high frequency words, amazing word or spelling words? Thanks.
basketball stars says
This concept is great. Excellent approach to use phrase structure and context hints to find unknown words.
Sarah Adams says
For my third graders who haven’t been in school for about 1-1/2 years. This works well for my grade 1 EAL students. This activity will help my students a lot. one thing i will add that the PowerPoint is a great teaching material to use in the classroom.
Joy says
For my third-grade students who haven’t attended class in around 1.5 years. For my EAL pupils in first grade, this is effective. My pupils will benefit much from this activity. I’ll just say that PowerPoint is a fantastic teaching tool to utilize in the classroom.
David says
A challenge that forces kids to think and apply their problem-solving abilities is a jumbled phrase. It consists of a phrase that is grammatically incorrect and hence unintelligible. Children must rearrange the sentence such that it makes sense.