Reading Rainbow: Silly Sentence Machine

http://pbskids.org/readingrainbow/games/silly_sentence.html

On the Reading Rainbow website by PBS, I found multiple games that students can use to practice their reading and language arts skills. One of the games that I think 1st grade students would particularly like is called Silly Sentence Machine. Students put together their own sentence by choosing from a group of choices consisting of who, how, type, what, and where. By playing this game, students can learn and make meaning as to what components make up a sentence. I think younger kids would also like this game because pictures go along with the words and because they can make up their own “silly sentence.” This game addresses some of the principles presented by Gee but not many because it is as interactive or extensive because it meant for younger children. It includes the semiotic domains principle, multimodal principle, and the discovery principle. This game is mostly designed for practice by making sentence building fun and interactive.