From Reading Words to Building Whole Sentences

Once children begin recognising and reading words, the next challenge is understanding how those words fit together.

The Junior Learning Sentence Toolbox turns sentence building into a hands-on activity. Children choose colourful word tri-blocks, arrange them in different combinations and use the sentence cards to explore how words work together.

Instead of grammar feeling abstract, children can physically move words around, experiment with word order and begin seeing how meaningful sentences are created.

🧱 48 Tri-Blocks Hands-on word pieces 🃏 12 Sentence Cards Guided sentence building 🔤 Parts of Speech Nouns, verbs & more 💬 Build Sentences Explore word order ✏️ Early Writing Grammar & vocabulary 🧒 Ages 4+ Developing literacy skills

🧱 48 Tri-Blocks Hands-on word pieces

🃏 12 Sentence Cards Guided sentence building

🔤 Parts of Speech Nouns, verbs & more

💬 Build Sentences Explore word order

✏️ Early Writing Grammar & vocabulary

🧒 Ages 4+ Developing literacy skills

WHY SENTENCE BUILDING MATTERS

Reading a Word Is Only Part of Learning to Read

Children also need to understand how words connect to communicate an idea. Sentence building helps them move beyond recognising individual words and begin understanding who is doing what, what makes sense and where words belong in a sentence.

The Sentence Toolbox makes that process visual and hands-on by allowing children to physically arrange and rearrange words rather than only completing exercises on paper.

SIMPLE TO USE AT HOME OR SCHOOL

How Does the Sentence Toolbox Work?

Children can see the sentence, choose the words and physically put the sentence together.

STEP 1

Choose a Sentence Card

Start with one of the sentence-building cards. The examples provide a clear starting point while children learn how different types of words fit together.

STEP 2

Choose the Words

Select from the word tri-blocks covering different parts of speech. The colourful pieces help make different word types easier to distinguish as children build their sentence.

STEP 3

Build It. Read It. Change It.

Arrange the words into a sentence and read it together. Then swap one of the blocks and see how changing a noun, verb or other word changes the meaning of the sentence.

▶ WATCH IT IN ACTION

See the Sentence Toolbox in Action

Watch the short Junior Learning demonstration to see how the word blocks and sentence-building cards work together.

MAKE LANGUAGE VISIBLE

Let Children See How a Sentence Fits Together

Moving the pieces around gives children a concrete way to explore grammar, vocabulary and sentence structure.

📖 Read Sentences Bring individual words together into meaningful text. 🧠 Understand Grammar Explore how different parts of speech work together. 💬 Grow Vocabulary Experiment with different words and meanings. ✏️ Support Writing Build an understanding of sentence structure before writing.

📖 Read Sentences Bring individual words together into meaningful text.

🧠 Understand Grammar Explore how different parts of speech work together.

💬 Grow Vocabulary Experiment with different words and meanings.

✏️ Support Writing Build an understanding of sentence structure before writing.

GRAMMAR WITHOUT THE WORKSHEET FEEL

Explore Different Parts of Speech

The tri-blocks include different types of words, helping children explore the building blocks that make sentences work.