Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling

Frank Barnes School for the Deaf

19th November 2012

Collections Connect Four

A game to introduce traditional collection names and to tempt pupils into making up more interesting collections.

Collections Connect Four

A game to introduce traditional collection names and to tempt pupils into making up more interesting collections.

Simple to Complex Sentences

An activity to make sentences more complex while incidentally identifying grammatical features.

Frequent Word Track Games

A series of track games to help children play with words that are frequent and quite determindly unphonic.

Silent Letters Snakes and Ladders

or "Rhubarb! Rhubarb!" A game to introduce all the words that we can think of that have silent letters. "Gnu" is probably half silent!

Simile Bingo

A bingo game to collect similes and move from the stereotypical to the imaginative.

There! Their! Bingo and Connect Four

Two activities to help pupils distinguish between the two tricky words with a lot of help from aliens.

Too Many Apostrophes

A game to move apostrophes from sentences with too many to sentences with too few!

What Argument?

Scaffolding for a group preparation of a debate. Arguments for and against seven topics plus a frame work for oral presentations. Designed to build confidence in presentational talk after group planning using exploratory talk. Presentations can be practised in small groups beforepresenting before larger groups. Later they can be written.

Feelings Synonyms

Connect Four Game

Happy, Sad, Angry, Scared. A game to explore all the different words to describe different aspects of these emotions

Old and New Compound Nouns

A sorting activity examining how some old compounds nouns (tramline) are back in fashion, others (bedbug) never go away, while others (treadmill) languish and slowly become extinct unless teased into metaphor.