Grammar Gumballs is a sweet game for teaching and reinforcing basic grammar skills to young children. It targets nine of the early morphemes and grammatical structures identified by Roger Brown (1973). Children with language and learning difficulties often leave these structures out of their speech. Grammar Gumballs includes five levels of difficulty for each illustration. You begin with a simple listening/imitation task and gradually progress to spontaneous production.
Grammar Gumballs includes 180 illustrated cards (20 for each area) to teach nine grammatical forms:
Present Progressive Verbs
Irregular Past Tense Verbs
Subjective Pronouns
Copula Verbs (Is/Are)
Regular Plurals
Possessive Nouns
Regular Past Tense Verbs
Irregular Plurals
Possessive Pronouns
To play, fill up the Gumball Machine Game Board with the foam "Gumball" Tokens. Choose the card set(s) you wish to teach. Have the students draw a card. Then, read them the questions that match the card from the Lessons and Activities book. As the students answer the questions, they spin the spinner and take that number of "gumballs" from the machine. At the end of the game, the student with the most "Gumball" Tokens is the winner!
Grammar Gumballs includes
Gumball Machine Game Board (9 ½" x 13 ¾")
100 Foam "Gumball" Tokens
64-page Lessons and Activities book with fun, reproducible homework sheets