Sentence Rummy

Sentence Rummy Strategy: Students brainstorm to compile a list of ten nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. Those words are copied onto separate note cards. Twelve other cards will be made; four cards for the word “the,” four for the word “and,” and two for the words “a” and “an.” Students will be put into groups of four. Each student is dealt seven cards. A student wins when he/she can make a sentence with all seven cards in his/her hand. If, however, he/she does not have the right cards to form a sentence, he/she can discard one card and choose another. As the students become more comfortable with this game, prepositions and conjunctions can be added to the deck; the students will be dealt more than seven cards, however. The students
can even participate in a Sentence Rummy tournament, and a class champion can be crowned.