What are sentence building cards?

What are sentence building cards?

Introduction

Sentence building cards are a teaching aid that is inexpensive and easy to make and use.

They are useful to give learners practice in

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Definition
	Sentence building cards are a teaching aid. They allow learners to build sentences by matching individual words to words in a sentence that has already been written.

Features
	Each set of sentence building cards consists of
	a large sentence card with pictures and sentences, and several small word cards.
	The large sentence card has several illustrations drawn in boxes down the left side of the card. Each illustration has a sentence written in a box beside it. The illustrations serve as clues to the sentences.
	The small word cards have words that match the words in the sentences on the sentence card.
	The learner
	looks at the pictures reads the sentences, and builds the same sentences by placing the matching word cards in the space below the sentences.

Example
	Here is an example of a set of sentence building cards:
	Sentence building cards

See also
	What is a sentence building grid?

Sources
	Brown, G. 1984

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