The Text Toolkit contains 5 programs that are designed to enhance children's text and grammar skills.
The teacher will usually create activities using the tools in advance of the lesson, tailored to the learning objectives of the lesson. This activity can then be opened in 'play' mode during the lesson and used for whole class teaching and group or individual work.
These programs can be accessed from the Tools tab in Purple Mash by clicking on the Text Toolkit icon.
See the following sections for details about each program:
Word Spot is designed to help children understand and recognise Word Classes such as nouns, verbs and adjectives.
Cloze is designed to help children understand sentence structure and composition, developing awareness of punctuation and grammatical techniques to support writing.
Sentence Pairs is designed to help children explore tense, enabling them to recognise and understand verb forms.
Word Combos is designed to help children understand the structure of sentences and phrases using a variety of word types including nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and suffixes. It also offers the opportunity for creative writing.
Developing Tray is a game that draws children into making guesses and assumptions on a piece of text. Encourages work not just on a word level but on a sentence and whole text level.