Sentences with color-coded parts of speech build usage concepts.

This ingenious strategy shows how nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, and pronouns are used in sentences. Prepositional phrases are identified as adverbial or adjective phrases.

In the final analysis, the part of speech of a word or phrase is determined by how it is used in a sentence. So what better way is there to teach these confusing concepts?

First students put the 5 sequential scrambled sentences together. Then, as they analyze the sentences, students see the function of the words and phrases, or their parts of speech. Students link adjectives and adverbs to the words they modify. Repeated exposure to adverbial and adjective phrases clarifies these challenging usage concepts.

There are 18 sets of scrambled sentences per level. Each set has 5 sentences about high-interest, nonfiction topics.

There are an average of 9 words per sentence in level A. Word and sentence length in Level B average 20 percent more. Sentence structure and concepts are also more difficult.