FREE Kindergarten Sentence Building and Writing Center

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I’m sure you already know this but… writing sentences in Kindergarten is hard!

We need all of the practice we can get making and writing simple sentences.

I started search for sentence building and writing centers and activities for my students, but I couldn’t find any that were “just right” for my kindergarteners.

Then the idea for this freebie was born!

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Kindergarten Making Sentences Center

Your students will LOVE building and writing simple sentences with this free Kindergarten making sentences activity.

yes please!

Do you love free stuff?

Kindergarten Making Sentences Center

Your students will LOVE building and writing simple sentences with this free Kindergarten making sentences activity.

Why should we teach students how to build a sentence?

Have you ever gotten to independent writing time in your writing workshop and had a students just sit there? When you ask them what’s wrong, they reply, “I just don’t know what to write!”

While sometimes that is true, often our Kindergarten students know what they want to write about, they just don’t know how to write it. Making words into a sentence might seem simple to us, but it’s a complex skill for our beginning writers!

The more practice students get with building simple sentences, the easier it will be to be able to come up with and write their own sentences.

Activities like this free sentence building center are perfect for allowing students to practice writing sentences in a stress-free way.

Kindergarten Sentence Building Center

I knew when I began creating this free Kindergarten sentence building and writing center that it couldn’t be too complicated.

It needed to be simple enough that all students could use it, but also interactive enough to keep every student engaged. That’s a tall order!

This Kindergarten sentence building activity only asks students to combine two parts of a sentence – the naming part and the telling part. They can create a realistic sentence or a silly sentence. The possibilities are endless!

Then, it becomes a sentence writing activity when your kindergarten students rewrite the sentence and illustrate it. This is their favorite part!

How to use this center activity

One of the best parts about this Kindergarten sentence building and writing center is that it can be as low maintenance as you want it to be.

First, print the parts of a sentence cards. I suggest printing the naming part on one color paper, and the telling part on a different color paper.

This just helps your kindergarten students know that they’re building the sentences correctly; especially when they are just starting out.

Your kindergarten students will start out by choosing a naming part for their sentence. In this free center activity, the naming cards include a variety of animals.

Then, they will choose a telling part, or action, for their animal to do.

Watch out, because giggles will erupt pretty quickly once they get going building and writing sentences! Nothing is funnier to a kindergartener than a dog dunking a basketball!

Students will glue these cards at the top of their paper.

Writing simple sentences

Next, your kindergarten students will get to practice writing their simple sentences.

Students will rewrite the sentence they made on the lines (a few different options for writing lines are included).

Then, they will get to illustrate their sentence.

This is my kindergarteners’ favorite part!

How are teachers using this center activity?

You may be wondering how you can best use this freebie in your classroom. Teachers in our free teacher Facebook group shared some of the ways that they used this free Kindergarten sentence building and writing center activity:

• Use together in small groups
• Add to your writing center
• As a morning tub activity
• In your literacy center baskets
• Send home for more practice

The possibilities are truly endless!

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Do you love free stuff?

Kindergarten Making Sentences Center

Your students will LOVE building and writing simple sentences with this free Kindergarten making sentences activity.

yes please!

Do you love free stuff?

Kindergarten Making Sentences Center

Your students will LOVE building and writing simple sentences with this free Kindergarten making sentences activity.

Looking for more Kindergarten sentence building activities? You can find them in the Kindergarten Making Sentences Bundle!