This Subject-Verb Agreement Race game helps students practise identifying and correcting subject-verb agreement errors in a fast-paced and engaging team challenge. Students work collaboratively to race against the clock, fixing mismatched subject-verb pairs on sentence strips. This hands-on activity builds their grammar skills while encouraging teamwork and critical thinking.

How to Complete

1. Print and cut out the sentence strips with mismatched subject-verb pairs.
2. Divide students into small-group teams and provide each team with a set of shuffled sentence strips.
3. Teams work together to read each sentence, identify the subject-verb agreement error and rewrite the sentence with the correct verb form.
4. The first team to complete all sentences accurately wins the game.
5. After the race, review each team’s corrections as a class to ensure understanding.

Additional Tips

1. Provide a quick review of subject-verb agreement rules before starting the activity to refresh student knowledge.
2. Place the pages of sentence strips in reusable write and wipe sleeves so students can write corrections directly on them with whiteboard markers.

Extension Ideas

1. Peer Editing: After completing the race, have teams swap their corrected sentences and peer review each other’s work for accuracy.
2. Creative Writing: Challenge students to write their own sentences with deliberate subject-verb errors for other teams to fix.
3. Timed Challenges: Introduce multiple rounds with increasingly complex sentences and shorter time limits to test mastery under pressure.