Materials Collection of objects/animals.

Colour-coded grammar cards - nouns (black), adjectives (royal

blue), verbs (red), articles (grey)
Objectives To learn, through the cards, the grammatical structure of phrases
and
sentences.
Presentation Introduce the child to the box and allow him/her to set up the farm
and discuss the objects and what the various animals are doing.
This is very good for second-language children and language-
delayed children as it
gives them the opportunity to explore in an unpressurised
environment.
When the child has worked with the early grammar noun cards,
you can introduce him/her to the noun cards in the farm. Ask the
child to set up farm and take out the black cards, the naming cards.
S/he can then read the first card and either place it against the
object, or bring the object down to the card.
If the child is enthralled by an object and wants to start with that
particular one, do not worry. It just means that the child has to read
more cards as s/he has to read through the pile to find the
appropriate card.
Again, once the child has worked with the early grammar
adjective cards, you can introduce him/her to the adjective cards in
the farm box, showing him/her how to place the adjective cards in
front of the noun cards (revision of noun and adjective game). The
child reads the noun card, finds the object and is asked to read
through the adjective cards to find a word that describes the
object, e.g., ‘plump’ to go with ‘piglet’. At this point, you can also
introduce the first set of article cards in lower case, showing the
child how to place this in front of the adjective card.
The child then puts the cards at the bottom of their respective
piles, reads the next noun card ‘man’, looks through the adjective
cards and finds ‘strong’, e.g., ‘the strong man’. The child
continues using the cards in this way.
The next cards to be introduced are the verb and upper case article
cards. The verb cards are placed after the noun and the article
cards are placed before the adjective cards. The child reads the
first noun card and finds the object ‘man‘. S/he then finds a
suitable adjective card, ‘strong’. You then ask, “What does the
strong man do?” S/he may respond, after looking through the verb
cards, ‘stands’. You remind him/her that s/he is building a
sentence, so the article card needs to start with a capital letter. S/he
finds the card, ‘The’ and the sentence is complete, ‘The strong
man stands.’ If you are using them, remind the child to place a full
stop card at the end of the sentence.
 On each occasion the cards are returned to the bottom of their
respective piles so that the child can read the next card. The child
then reads
On each the next
occasion thenoun
cardscard and continues
are returned sentence
to the bottom building as
of their
before.
respective piles so that the child can read the next card. The child then
reads the next noun card and continues sentence building as before.
Part of speech Definition and symbol Symbol
Noun Noun (Black triangle)

Work that are names

Things, people and palaces

Artice Article (Small light – Blue

Triangle)

Litle words that go before

nouns to signal their

 presence.
Adjective Adjective (Small Blue

Triangle)

Words which describe nouns

Verb Verb (Red Circle)

Expresses an action or

occurrence