SENTENCE STANDARD:

W.2.10.

ROLLS
DEMONSTRATE
COMMAND OF THE
CONVENTIONS OF
STANDARD ENGLISH
GRAMMAR AND
USAGE WHEN
WRITING.

OBJECTIVE
Students will produce,
expand, and rearrange
complete simple and
compound sentences.

2nd Grade
Facilitation
1. Roll for who goes first.
Creation: 2. First player rolls a
number and picks that
(1.) When creating this game, you will need a word number of cards, each
bank with a wide range of grade level player takes turns doing
appropriate verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, the same.
pronouns, prepositions, and conjunctions. 3. When a player creates
Commonly used words should have several a sentence, they get a
repetitions (i.e. and, but, when, a, I, you, they, etc.). purple star card and put all
(2.) Then each word will need to be turned into a their word cards back in
card. My choice for making these was to make a the deck.
grid table on a word document and put one word 4. First player to 3-star
per box on a horizontal setting, centered, and with cards wins.
2pt spacing above and below.
(3.) Then, print the tables on cardstock paper and
cut them out. For my purple star cards,
(4.) I chose to fold a piece of construction paper and Variations
cut it accordingly to make 18 cards, I then drew on 1. Students gain one-
stars. Any type of card or object, like a toy coin, star card for every word
could be used for these pieces and stickers can on their sentence – this
make them more appealing than drawn on stars. is motivation for more
(5.) Lastly, for the die you can use a regular store complex sentences.
bought one or create a makeshift die with left over
construction paper strips. Creating a die allows for
customization of the numbers that can be rolled in 2. Add in punctuation
the game. For instance, my die contains three 2’s, cards so students can
two 1’s, and one 3. work on complete
complex sentences and
Resources: grammar.
- Computer/Word Doc - Printer/Card Stock –
Dice - Construction paper- Ziploc