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Visual Sentence Building Strips

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Visual Sentence Building Strips

Read the word strips. Choose a subject and a verb to make a complete sentence. Then use a joining word to connect two ideas.

Sentence strips

A subject tells who or what the sentence is about. A verb tells what the subject does.

SUBJECT — Who or what? 🐦 The bird 👩 The chef 🐸 The frog 🧒 The child

VERB — What does it do? 🪽 flies 🥣 stirs 🦘 jumps 📖 reads

Joining words

Use a joining word to connect ideas. “And” adds an idea, “but” shows a contrast, and “then” tells what happens next.

AND — adds BUT — contrasts THEN — next

1.Choose one subject strip and one verb strip. Write a complete sentence. Remember the capital letter and full stop.
2.Make a different complete sentence with a subject and a verb from the strips.
3.Join these ideas with a suitable joining word to make one sentence: “The chef stirs.” “The child reads.”
4.Draw a scene to match this sentence: “The frog jumps and the bird flies.”
5.Write your own compound sentence using a joining word. Include two ideas and finish with the correct punctuation.
6.Select every joining word from this list: and, frog, but, jumps, then.

3 printable pages

  • Visual Sentence Building Strips, page 1 of 3: Sentence strips, Joining words

    Page 1

  • Visual Sentence Building Strips, page 2 of 3: 3. Join these ideas with a suitable joining word to make one sentence: “The chef

    Page 2

  • Visual Sentence Building Strips, page 3 of 3: 6. Select every joining word from this list: and, frog, but, jumps, then.

    Page 3

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