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Sentence Builder Workbook

From single words to super sentences · Ages 7–11 · Colour-coded throughout

✔ WHO / DOING / WHAT / WHERE colour-coded sentence frames
✔ Word banks for every activity — no blank-page fear
✔ Silly Sentence Spinner (grammar practice that causes giggles)
✔ Conjunction power-ups: because, but, so, when
✔ Sentence expanding — same idea, growing stronger
✔ Based on the colour-semantics approach used in speech therapy

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Adventurers · Builder 1

The Sentence Machine

Name:

Date:

Every sentence is built from blocks: WHO + DOING + WHAT + WHERE. Pick one word from each colour, write it in the machine, read your sentence aloud!

the doga penguinmy teacherthe dragon is eatingis hidingis jugglingfound a sausagethe homeworkten eggsa treasure map in the gardenunder the bedat the poolon the bus

WHO?

DOING?

WHAT?

WHERE?

WHO?

DOING?

WHAT?

WHERE?

✏️ Write your two full sentences (capital letter → full stop!):

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Adventurers · Builder 2

The Silly Sentence Spinner

Name:

Date:

Roll a dice for each column and build the sentence you land on. Yes, it will be ridiculous. Ridiculous sentences that are grammatically PERFECT are the whole point!

🎲	WHO	DOING	WHAT	WHERE
1	A sleepy sloth	is baking	a birthday cake	on the moon
2	The head teacher	is riding	a skateboard	in the supermarket
3	My grandma	is wrestling	a giant jelly	under the sea
4	A ninja hamster	is painting	fifty bananas	at the bus stop
5	The queen	is losing	a welly boot	in the jungle
6	A polite crocodile	is knitting	a tiny hat	behind the sofa

✏️ Write your three best rolled sentences — then DRAW your favourite:

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Adventurers · Builder 3

Conjunction Power-Ups

Name:

Date:

Conjunctions join ideas and level-up your sentences: because (gives a reason) · but (adds a surprise) · so (shows what happened next) · when (tells the time).

Finish each sentence — the conjunction tells you what KIND of ending it needs:

1. The dog hid under the table because

2. I wanted to play outside but

3. The cat knocked over the plant so

4. The owls wake up when

Join the sentence pairs with the best conjunction (because / but / so / when):

1. The penguin was hungry. ______ it went fishing.

2. I like dogs. ______ I'm a bit scared of very big ones.

3. We cheered. ______ our team scored.

4. The hamster is happy. ______ he has a new wheel.

⭐ Power sentence: write ONE sentence about an animal using TWO conjunctions. (e.g. "The fox waited until dark because the garden was quiet, so nobody saw him.")

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Adventurers · Builder 4

Sentence Bodybuilding

Name:

Date:

Watch a sentence grow: The dog ran. → The muddy dog ran. → The muddy dog ran through the kitchen. → The muddy dog ran through the kitchen because it heard the biscuit tin. Same idea — four levels stronger!

Train these sentences through all four levels:

Level 1: The cat slept.

Level 2 (add a describing word):

Level 3 (add WHERE):

Level 4 (add because/when/but):

Level 1: The bird sang.

Level 2:

Level 3:

Level 4:

⭐ Shrink-ray challenge (the reverse!): take this overstuffed sentence and cut it down to its Level 1 core:

"The extremely enormous, incredibly hairy, quite smelly orange orangutan happily munched seventeen delicious yellow bananas noisily in the tallest tree of the steamy jungle."

Level 1 version:

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Adventurers · Tutor Page

Answers & Notes

Conjunction joins

1. so · 2. but · 3. when · 4. because

Shrink-ray

"The orangutan munched bananas." (accept any version keeping who + doing + what)

Why colour-coding?

The WHO/DOING/WHAT/WHERE colour frame mirrors the colourful-semantics approach speech therapists use: it turns the invisible structure of a sentence into something a child can SEE and physically build. Keep the colours consistent everywhere — on word cards, in marking, on displays.

Progression through the book

Machine (structure) → Spinner (fluency + fun) → Conjunctions (complexity) → Bodybuilding (control). A child who can grow AND shrink a sentence understands sentences — that's the exit skill.

For reluctant writers

Everything here works aloud first. Build it speaking, then write what was said. Speech is the rehearsal; writing is the recording.