Dear Educator,

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• Sentence Says™ is a phenomenal new game concept that adapts to any classroom environment, promoting effective communication skills.

• Originally designed as a great game for group entertainment, Sentence Says™ has not only become a hit within the non-electronic game market, it is now moving into classrooms across the country and overseas.
• With today’s standards requiring quality written and oral communication skills (in all core areas), teachers must emphasize quality sentence construction. Sentence Says™ is fast becoming a perfect addition to any classroom where educators are looking to enhance and improve their students’ communication skills.
• Sentence Says™ will add dynamics and fun to the task of teaching sentence structure and complete thought (statement) responses in all areas of curriculum.
• Spelling anxiety is eliminated in Sentence Says™.
• Vocabulary development is a by-product of Sentence Says™. The very nature of the game will stimulate word usage and understanding. Action cards will stimulate conversation about concepts students often hear but rarely contemplate.
• Computation of basic math facts is practiced in scoring.

Read on! See how and where to apply Sentence Says™ to your lesson plans.

Where can Sentence Says™ be used to enhance communication skills?

• Self Contained Classrooms
• Departmentalized Classrooms
• Special Education Programs
• Title I
• Gifted
• ESL/ESOL
• Afterschool Programs
• Developmental Youth Programs
• Adult Remediation
• Homeschools
• Families
• Group Entertainment
• Professional Training
• Foreign Language Instruction

Concepts Used in Applications of Sentence Says™:

• Bloom’s taxonomy
• Multiple Intelligences
• Learning Styles
• Cooperative Group Activities
• Relationship building
• Daily Oral Language(DOLs)

How Sentence Says™ Can Work in your Program:

• Test Review: Have your students make sentences about something in the materials to be reviewed for an upcoming test. Students can work as teams. To lessen difficulty of this particular activity using Sentence Says™, have a brainstorming session prior to a Sentence Says™ game and write up all significant terms on the board that could possibly be used in the sentences that pertain to content of tested materials.
  
• Parts of Speech Lessons: Quickly review parts of speech. Play teams (2-4 groups) in your classroom. Play to 1000 points. Give student 10 extra points for each word in their sentence they can classify correctly as one of the parts of speech.
  
• Gifted Classroom Fun or Competition: The sky’s the limit!! Those of you that work with gifted kids will really appreciate this game. Warning! Sometimes, competition can get carried away in Sentence Says™. If you want to tone down Sentence Says™ and move away from the competitive aspect of the game, then challenge the students to eliminate the rules and come up with list of their own rules to a brand new game with the same game pieces provided. If you come up with some great ideas let us know!
  
• Bad Weather Day Entertainment: Quality games are a healthy way to add stimulus in a classroom full of anxious students. When that morning arrival time, midday break or end of day is limited to indoor activity, pull out Sentence Says™ and see what happens. Oh yeah! Don’t ask if they want to play, just pull out Sentence Says™ and see where curiosity and creative minds can take them! Ask students to help you figure out how to play. If students are familiar with the game then ask them to create a new version that can be played in a limited time frame. Challenge the student with a specific idea and they will rise to the occasion. If one student tends to be domineering the game, make them either team leader requiring them to provoke active participation from their team players or they can be game referee and conduct the flow of game.
  
• Parts of the Sentence Lessons: Diagramming is an old fashioned way for students to identify the parts of a sentence. Try this to help enhance students understanding of sentence structure: Provide students with a reproducible copy of a list of prepositions and a quick review of subject and predicate phrase on that same sheet. All sentences must have a subject and predicate. Using the sheet as a learning aid, see how well students can discuss and judge each other’s composed sentences. Teachers, you will be amazed how quickly the students start accurately judging sentences using correct terminology.
  
• Motivational Moments (professional and academic training): Professional and academic training can be dreadfully boring sometimes. Spice up a moment of your teaching by using Sentence Says™ as a motivational review of concepts you are covering. Create generic action cards with extra points that would incorporate information you are sharing. This activity can be a group or individual task.