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SYNTAX
Constructing Sentences
Visitors at this station used lego to build the structures of ambiguous sentences.
What Did and Didn't Work
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Children love lego!
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Parents enjoyed the educational aspect and were keen to use the activity at home.
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Younger children found the activity difficult and could not read upper case letters.
Improvements
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For younger visitors, try an activity where words slot into different positions in a sentence and change its meaning.
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Consider a simplified version for younger children using colour coded bricks for different parts of speech.
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Make sure all letters are lower case to make words easier to read.
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Allow parents to take home activity worksheets so they can continue the exercise at home.
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