Fun support with handwriting, reading, and structuring a sentence

Silly Sentences

August 12, 2024•2 min read

One of my favourite games when structuring sentences and focusing on handwriting or punctuation, is silly sentences. It’s easy to create and can be quite funny. A couple of people I’ve played it with in the past haven’t enjoyed writing sentences that they see as not making sense rather than bizarre, but I will explain it just in case you want to give it a go.

Write, maybe 10 or so sentences along the lines of:

The black cat ate quietly.

The orange fish swam quickly.

The old dog snored loudly.

The green parrot flew gracefully.

The wise owl looked eagerly.

Once you have all 10 cut them up and put the face down in piles of openers, adjectives, noun, verb, adverb. Then individually shuffle each pile.

The first person then takes a word from the top of each pile and writes it down to create a new ‘silly sentence’. They might reveal something like: The orange dog flew eagerly.

Silly sentences: An orange dog flew eagerly

Other times you might get something less inspiring such as: the black dog ate eagerly.

You can use multiple adjectives if you want to which will make the sentences more entertaining and descriptive, but it very much depends on your focus.

You may decide to change the game slightly and having cut your words up create a board that tells you to place a adjective here, noun her, verb here, etc. Then you take it in turns to turn a word and put each one in its designated spot. The first person to fill their board wins. That way if you don't want to make 'silly sentences' as such you will hopefully get the opportunity to make sentences which make more sense.

Enjoy it though, and I hope you get some ‘interesting’ results.

Our goal at Clara James Tutoring is to make learning fun and accessible to everyone. If children are engaged in what they are doing they are more likely to want to participate, if they are enjoying it, they are more likely to relax and retain the information.

If they are retaining the information it will help boost their knowledge and with knowledge comes confidence.

If you have a child who enjoys learning through games and being more creative, and you enjoy spending time with them, you might be interested in the Clara James Approach, the membership group we have put together to support you in supporting your primary school aged child with their maths and English.

Interested?

Click here to learn more: The Clara James Approach

Dawn Strachan

For the past 20+ years I have been a firm believer that learning should be an enjoyable experience. I appreciate that traditionally education has revolved around worksheets, textbooks, listening to teachers. But a grounding in early years and working with children who had a variety of learning styles from I learned that it is an individual activity that is personal to all of us. We don’t all learn in the same way. Our influences, our experiences, our capabilities all influence how we retain information. But through it all, I believe that if we can make it enjoyable and engaging, they will want to participate. With participation comes practice which in turn boosts skill and confidence. With an increase in skill and confidence comes a willingness to have a go. This in turn leads to more practice which leads to a positive spiral of success. The moral, we need to make learning fun, engaging, use a range of techniques.

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