You’ve reached the tomb, and it’s time to get the treasure! Do you play it safe and take the small pieces of treasure, or risk it all to get the big score? With every correct answer, you move closer to collecting rare and valuable treasure - but get it wrong, and you might lose it all through the trap door!

This version helps students recognise and select full sentences. They are presented with two options: one complete sentence and one sentence fragment. By identifying the full sentence, they practise early grammar and sentence structure in a context that’s fun, adventurous and high-stakes.

The exciting gameplay keeps students engaged as they choose between treasure or risk in each round, building foundational literacy skills along the way.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• ✅ Identify complete sentences versus sentence fragments
• ✅ Strengthen early grammar and sentence structure understanding
• ✅ Develop confidence in recognising meaningful sentence construction
• ✅ Practise critical thinking when comparing sentence options
• ✅ Engage in interactive, risk-reward based learning

How to Play:

1. Students are shown two written options - one full sentence and one fragment.
2. They must decide which one is the complete sentence.
3. If correct, they collect treasure and move closer to the final reward.
4. If incorrect, the trap door opens and their treasure is lost.
5. The game continues until all questions are complete - who will walk away with the biggest haul?

Ideas for Classroom Use:

• 💡 Use during sentence-level writing or early grammar lessons
• 💡 Great for Foundation to Year 1 students learning to identify full ideas in writing
• 💡 Pair with sentence building cut-and-paste tasks to extend the learning before gameplay
• 💡 Replay to reinforce recognition of complete sentences through varied examples

Top Teacher Tips:

• 💛 Let students personalise their experience by choosing from six characters before the game begins
• 💛 Select solo or team mode to support individual or small group work
• 💛 Send the QR code home so families can explore sentence structure practise through play

Let’s Steal – Select the Sentence helps students strengthen early writing and grammar skills while adventuring through a tomb full of treasure and tricky traps!