Spellling homework driving me mad

[bumpy06]

the homework is to unscramble the following
of lights lots days. of traffic the over signal removal the next few The jams

He couldn't care less. Driving me mad. Best I have gotten is -
The removal of lots of the traffic lights signal jams over the next few days.

is this

The removal of the lights signal lots of traffic jams over the next few days.

I think you are probably correct, and the word The having the capital 'T' gives the clue that it is probably the first word in the sentence. (But I don't offer any money-back guarantee!)

Probably the best way to approach things like this is to write each word on a separate slip of paper, then you can shuffle them around until you are happy (?) with the result.

bumpy06

I get that your DS doesn't like this but if you're in an 11+ area I suspect this will oddly be of benefit. Either for Cloze type questions where a word is missing or for reordering garbled sentences questions - which indeed are on some CEM exams.

Treat it as a puzzle - rather than torture.

With DD1 when she had this kind of thing for 11+ prep - we found it was more fun (and straightforward for her) to cut out individual words and then swap them round on the table until it made a sensible sentence.

Just print out sentences in larger font - maybe add extra spaces between words.

I'd say The removal of the lights signal lots of traffic jams over the next few days.