Ocean & Sea Animals Sentence Scramble with Prepositions
by English with Imagination © 2025
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Price: $3.25 USD
Subjects: ela,seasonSummer,englishSecondLanguage,eslGrammar,elaLanguageGrammar,elaLanguage
Grades: 1,2,3,4,5
Description
Your English learners will practice prepositions of place and the determiners "some" and "any" with this fun grammar game about animal life under the sea. On each randomly presented slide, the students will form a sentence to describe a photo of ocean animals. 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, inside, next to, on, and under. The sentences are illustrated with vibrant color photography to support reading comprehension and vocabulary acquisition. The photos of underwater scenes and beach landscapes illustrate the following sea vocabulary: beach, cave, coral, crab, dolphin, fish, jellyfish, ocean, octopus, penguin, plant, pool, rock, sand, sea, seagull, seahorse, shark, shell, starfish, turtle, water, wave, and whale. 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.
Acknowledgements
Copyright © Lauren Hamilton Sáez, English with Imagination, 2025. Images licensed from Deposit Photos, Alamy, and Canva.