Build a Sentence

What your child learns

• Reading word by word and building a sentence that makes sense: who, does what, to what
• Word order: "The girl drinks milk", not "Milk drinks the girl"
• A sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a period
• With the Vietnamese voice, kids build simple Vietnamese sentences instead

How to play

1. Press "Play now". Look at the picture, then tap the word cards in order to put them into the sentence, or drag a card into a box.
2. Tap a placed card to send it back. On a computer: Tab moves between cards, Enter places a card, Esc sends it back.
3. When the sentence is full and right, the game reads it aloud. Full but in the wrong order? The sentence gets a yellow outline, so your child can swap cards around.
4. Sure it is right? Press Done: if it is not, the cards in the right place stay and the rest go back.
5. Build it right on the first try to earn a star.

For parents

• It starts with three-word sentences ("The cat sleeps.") and moves up to five words ("Mom rides a purple bike.") after a run of right answers.
• Every sentence has only one right order: no movable phrases like "today" or "on the bed", and no sentences where "a" and "the" could swap.
• Trying different orders is not counted as a mistake. Only pressing Done on a wrong sentence, or trying three different wrong orders, counts. After two mistakes the game reads the sentence aloud and the next card blinks as a hint.
• Play together: point at the picture and ask "Who is it? What are they doing?", then look for those words.