The sentence factory, cards to print

Lexikit sorts the words of the resource into sets of cards to cut out. Nouns and adjectives keep their picture. The determiners are the ones these nouns take, and the verbs are written in the chosen form: present, past or going to future. If you need them, you add pronouns, is and has, time words like yesterday or tomorrow, and little words like in, with or to. The child lays the cards, builds a sentence and reads it. The cards are made from the words alone, with no sentence to write in advance.

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Sets of word cards to cut out and build sentences with — First page, made in Lexikit with twelve animal words.

In 3 steps

Start from a theme or add your words: they make the sets of cards.
Choose the sets: determiners, verbs and their form, pronouns, time words, little words.
Print and cut out: the cards and a box to fold to store them. Or play on screen.

What you can set

Card sets: words of the resource, determiners, pronouns, verbs, to be and to have, time words, little words, capital and full stop
Determiners the, a, an, my, this, depending on the nouns of the resource
Verb form: present, past or going to future, one form or several, in the third person singular. The time words follow the forms ticked
The little words have the pictogram ARASAAC draws for them: a triangle for “the”, an oval for “a”
Picture: with or without. Without it, the word is alone on a smaller card, and a page holds more of them
On the back: the word behind the picture, or the picture behind the word, on a back page to print double sided
Board printed by default before the cards, three to eight places their size
Card size, capitals, print or cursive, marker and colours
Colour of each card by its part of speech, by default: determiners in brown, nouns in blue, pronouns in violet, verbs in red, adjectives in green, other words in black. Or a single colour of your choice
On screen: “Build a sentence”, the sets on the table and the sentence read aloud
The new cards: after a PDF, the factory remembers the cards it printed, and the next PDF can print only the cards of the words added since

Ways to use it

Saying sentences with the words of a theme, then reading them
Word order, the determiner that goes with the noun, the tense of the verb
In speech therapy, building a sentence word by word

Frequently asked questions

Does every word have a picture?

Yes. The nouns, verbs and adjectives have the picture of their lexicon card. The determiners, the pronouns, the time words and the little words have the pictogram ARASAAC draws for them, and “No picture” takes it off in the window of the word. A word added without a card is written alone on the card.

Why are the verbs in the third person?

A card carries one form of the verb, the one that goes with he, she, it or a noun. The child puts the subject before the verb. The other persons would need one more card per verb.

Where is the “Put the words in order” worksheet?

It has left “Create a resource”. The cards made before still open, with their sentences and their boards. To have a sentence written in advance copied, choose “Copy the sentence”: it starts with ready sentences that hold the words of the file.

How does the box grow over the year?

Print the factory of each theme with “On the back: The set” and keep every card in the same box: each card finds its compartment by its back. Each theme brings its own determiner cards, and a class box needs several copies of them. If you add words to a factory already printed, the PDF button offers “The new cards”.

See all 1 resources of “Use the words again”

Your turn

Open Lexikit, write your words, choose a resource. All that is left is to print or to play. Free, no account, and your words stay on your device.