Christmas Sentence Scramble with Prepositions of Place

by English with Imagination

Price: 325 points or $3.25 USD

Subjects: ela,englishSecondLanguage,christmas,elaLanguage,elaLanguageGrammar,conventionsOfStandardEnglish,eslGrammar

Grades: 1,2,3,4,5

Description: Your English learners will practice prepositions of place and the determiners "some" and "any" with this fun Christmas grammar game. On each randomly presented slide, the students will form a sentence to describe a photo of a Christmas holiday scene. Each sentence contains six or seven word tiles that follow a consistent pattern: a "there is" / "there are" clause followed by a prepositional phrase. Students will move the tiles to form simple declarative, interrogative, and negative sentences. In the process, they'll review the following prepositions of place: above, behind, between, in, in front of, next to, under. The sentences are illustrated with vibrant color photography to support reading comprehension and vocabulary acquisition. A variety of cozy Christmas scenes illustrate the following vocabulary: angel, bag, balcony, ball, book, box, cat, dog, door, fireplace, food, house, lights, number, package, paper, people, present, reindeer, roof, sign, sled, sky, sofa, star, stocking, table, teddy bear, toy, tree, wall, window. I regularly use digital sentence scrambles to review grammar concepts with my students. They enjoy seeing the pictures, moving the word tiles, and getting instant feedback. I find that these activities can be a great bridge between receptive and productive language use. The sentence scramble gives them the structured experience that they need to confidently use the language in conversation.