Halloween Sentence Scramble with Prepositions & Determiners

by English with Imagination

Price: 325 points or $3.25 USD

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

Grades: 1,2,3,4,5

Description: Your English learners will practice prepositions of place and the determiners "some" and "any" with this fun Halloween grammar game. On each randomly presented slide, the students will form a sentence to describe a Halloween celebration. 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. A variety of spooky and festive photos illustrate the following vocabulary: bag, bench, bowl, bucket, candle, candy, cat, cloud, crow, dog, fence, flag, ghost, ground, house, jar, moon, people, pumpkin, scarecrow, sheet, shoulder, sign, skeleton, sky, spider, stairs, story, street, tree, web, window, and witch. 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.