Pack your bags and get ready for a mountain-sized challenge! In this digital game, students answer grammar questions to climb their way to the top of a scenic mountain trail. With each correct answer, they hike a little further—progressing through changing environments like forests, cliffs, and snowy peaks.

The game can be played solo or as a team. When played with more than one character, all players work together to answer questions and help the group climb higher as a united team. The journey ends with a polaroid-style snapshot that shows how far they made it up the mountain, along with a final score.

In this version, students will work through multiple-choice questions designed to help them identify clauses within sentences. Questions focus on recognising basic clause structure—including the presence of a subject and verb—and distinguishing between complete clauses and fragments. This supports students in developing stronger sentence construction and editing skills.

Students are encouraged to replay the game, aiming to reach the summit by answering all questions correctly. This creates a powerful learning opportunity around persistence, determination, and grammar fluency.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• ✅ Identify clauses in simple and compound sentences
• ✅ Recognise subject-verb agreement as a key feature of clauses
• ✅ Distinguish between complete clauses and incomplete sentence fragments
• ✅ Strengthen sentence-level grammar knowledge
• ✅ Engage in grammar learning through interactive, visual gameplay

How to Play:

1. Students are presented with a sentence and asked to identify the clause or determine if a clause is present.
2. Each correct answer helps them climb higher up the mountain trail.
3. The game can be played individually or cooperatively with multiple characters working as a team.
4. At the end of the game, a polaroid snapshot shows how far they made it and their final score.
5. Students can replay the game to climb higher and aim for the summit by answering all questions correctly.

Ideas for Classroom Use:

• 💡 Use during grammar lessons to support sentence structure and editing practise
• 💡 Great for Year 3–4 students learning to build complete, grammatically correct sentences
• 💡 Pair with a follow-up writing task that asks students to expand sentence fragments into full clauses
• 💡 Include in literacy rotations for independent grammar practise with visual reinforcement

Top Teacher Tips:

• 💛 Let students personalise their experience by choosing from six characters before the game begins
• 💛 Select the number of players or teams at the start of the game to suit individual, paired, or group play
• 💛 Send the QR code home for students to play as a homework or revision task

Let’s Hike – Identifying Clauses helps students scale new grammar heights—building confidence with clauses one step at a time!