Scrambled Sentences! {no prep therapy}

If you're like me, you love therapy activities that require minimal to no prep, especially on Fridays! I wanted to share one of my favorite go-to language activities called "Scrambled Sentences". All you need is a piece of paper and a pen!

This activity can be used to target the following goals:

- Sentence structure; (duh)

- Judging whether a sentence is grammatically correct or not;

- Expanding basic sentences using modifiers and the like;

- Tense and other parts of grammar;

- Sight word recognition; AND

- Articulation practice depending on your choice of words

This activity works best for children kindergarten and up who at least are beginning to decode words and utilize sight words for reading. The first-grader I use this activity with loves using his emerging literacy skills and I will usually prompt non-frequent words after allowing him to attempt to decode the word initially. You could also do this activity using Boardmaker pictures cut up and scrambled for non-readers. :)

All you do is simply:

1) Write a sentence on your paper containing either language or articulation targets and then tear off the words one by one. 

2) Allow the kiddo to "shake, shake, shake!" them up in their hand and then let them re-order the words into a complete sentence. In the picture above I used sentences to help my friend describe his day at school using past tense words. After we order the sentence correctly we usually read it through 1-3 more times.

That's it! It's like a puzzle you can make on the fly and it really gets kid's brains thinking on multiple levels. Hope someone else can make this activity work for them!