Interactive Game
Sorting Orchard
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- Ages 4–11
Teacher guide · Sentence Factory
Sentence building game: how to play in class
Sentence building on the board: the machine jumbles a sentence and the class puts it back.
Open the gameAt a glance
- Ages
- 3–11
- Players
- Whole class · Up to 4 teams
- Time
- 5–20 min
- Prep
- Pick a word topic in the game — the words are already inside
- Online lessons
- Works by screen share
- No wifi
- Keeps working once it has been opened
How to play
Choose the words to build with, then start the machine.
The word tiles ride out on the conveyor, out of order.
Tap them one by one to put the sentence back together.
Tap any tile again to hear that word out loud.
Fix it hides one wrong word; Match it asks which sentence fits the pictures.
Silly story asks the class for words, then reads the nonsense back.
Variations
Three ways to play it differently once the class knows the rules.
Fix it
The machine slips one wrong word into the sentence. Whoever spots it reads the corrected sentence aloud.
Match it
The class decides which sentence fits the pictures, then explains what gave it away.
Silly story
Collect a word from each child, let the machine read the nonsense back, then act the story out together.
Best topics for this game
Each one opens Sentence Factory with that pack already loaded.
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