Can anyone please recommend a good kit or book to help with sentence construction?

[ArtisanLentilWeaver]

Primary Two dc has been asked to write sentences for homework and is struggling as the school have only touched on eg nouns.
Is there an easy to follow book, kit or something where we can help him understand how to create a sentence?

We had a book at school (very long ago) which was helpful but I cannot remember what it was called plus individual cards with eg jumping then verb written underneath.

Is there anything similar?

My dd is a bit little of it but my niece uses these

Hi - retired TA here -

I suppose an easy way might be for you to make cards for each word on a page or two of his current reading book (depending on his reading standard; if it is advanced, just do one or two sentences).

Give him a handful of word cards that form ONE of the sentences (plus cards for punctuation, and to make it more difficult add in an extra card or two of words that are NOT in the sentence, if you wish.)

Without him looking at the original book, see if he can re-construct the sentence. Then talk about the importance of each word; what would it do to the sentence if a word was changed, or left out? Which words are 'things' (nouns), which are 'doing' words (verbs), which 'describe' something (adjectives)?

In a way, words in a sentence are a bit like pieces of Lego, that can be assembled to make a complete model (the sentence).

I have found this site, but don't know anything about it - could be worth looking at: www.theschoolrun.com/

If I come across anything else, I'll try and come back.

Thank you all very much for your help.

He is given a list of ten words to copy out each evening then must make a sentence from each word. 'It' threw him and the remaining words were either days of the week or words like 'table'.

We will make some cards and write the description underneath which will help him. I am sure he will enjoy snipping up the paper.
He was a bit confused as he has only learned nouns but we have spoken to him about verbs.

I will have a look at those websites - the dominoes are a good idea plus the homework gnome in the schoolrun site looks promising.

Write a story - versions of fairy stories or about a day out or a holiday, preferably with your ds as the main part/hero, are good - missing out the part of speech you are trying to teach him - eg adjectives are a good one.

Put a blank space/line in the story where you want to insert adjectives eg "William [or whatever ds's name is] and the dragon. In the land of Blog, everyone was very scared, because there was a very dragon. etc"

Then explain you want him to give you describing words to fit in the gaps - get him to give you lots of examples. Write them down on little bits of paper, put them in a hat, draw them out as you read the story. As the adjectives are chosen at random and the story about him it is usually v funny - you get lots of "smelly" dragons, "purple" Williams, "silly" princesses etc etc - a fun way to learn what an adjective is and what it does.

You can do this with verbs etc as well.