Alpha Sentences
Builds grammar (sentence structure) skills and creativity
Select a sentence from text the students have read. Then have students work individually or in pairs to create another sentence in which the words begin with the same letters as the words in the selected sentence. For example, The house was for sale might become Ten helicopters were flying south. Students vote for the best sentences created by their peers.
For younger students, be sure to keep sentences short and choose sentences with words that begin with common letters.