Sentence Creator

Quick start

Make decodable sentences in a few clicks — a 30-second refresher.

1. In Sounds taught, switch off the sounds you haven’t taught yet (or jump to a stage with the quick-select). Only words you can build from those sounds are used.
2. In Tricky words, tick the common words you’ve introduced — pronouns, the, a, is, and so on. These don’t follow the usual sound rules, so you control them by hand.
3. Set your options — include he / she / it, adjectives, or a short phrase like on the mat — and how many sentences you want.
4. Press Make sentences. Click any sentence to drop it, then Copy the rest for a worksheet, slide, or dictation list.

Sentences are generated, so they’re sometimes a little silly — that’s fine for decoding practice, and you can drop any you don’t want. Your choices are saved on this computer.

How the Sentence Creator works

This tool writes short sentences using only the words a child can actually read — words built from the sounds you’ve taught, plus the “tricky words” you’ve introduced by hand. It pairs a subject, a verb, and (often) an object or describing word into a simple sentence.

1 · Sounds taught. Pick exactly which consonants, vowels, vowel teams, pairs, trigraphs, and glued sounds you’ve covered, or jump to a whole stage with the structured-phonics quick-select. A content word (a noun, verb, or adjective) is used only when every sound in it is one you’ve selected — so blends need nothing special: if you’ve taught b and l, words with bl are fair game. Weld glued sounds (on by default) keeps rimes like ing, ank, all as one chunk, matching Blending Practice.

2 · Tricky words. These are the high-frequency words that don’t play by regular sound rules — pronouns (I, you, he…), articles (a, the), the “to be” words (am, is, are, was), prepositions, and a few others. They’re needed to glue a sentence together, so you switch them on by hand as you teach them, regardless of their letters. If a tricky word you ticked happens to contain a letter-sound you turned off above, it’s still used (your tick wins) — but the tool shows a note so you’re aware.

3 · Your own words. Add words you’ve already taught or want to include — including extra tricky words this tool doesn’t list. They’re used exactly as typed and skip the sound check, because you’ve decided the child can handle them. Sort each into the right box so it can be placed grammatically: naming words (nouns) become subjects and objects; action words (verbs) become the doing part, with -s added automatically for he / she / it; describing words (adjectives) work like the big cat or it is soft; and little linking words (joining words like prepositions) appear in short phrases such as near the pond. Capitalize a naming word (Sam) and it’s treated as a name — used on its own with no the or a, and allowed to do actions (Sam hops); lower-case naming words take an article and act as things (I see the pond).

4 · Sentence options. He / she / it & -s verbs adds third-person-singular subjects and the matching verb form (he sits, the dog runs) — only when that -s form is itself decodable. Describing words adds adjectives (the big cat, I am sad). Short phrases adds a place phrase like on the mat or in a box (needs a preposition and the/a). Keep it sensible (on by default) loosely checks that an action verb has a subject that could do it — turn it off for more variety (and more silliness). Set how many sentences to make at once, and optionally a fewest / most words range to keep them short or stretch them longer — every word counts (even the and is), and sentences range from two words to about a dozen. Leave a box blank, or type 0, for no limit.

5 · Results. Press Make sentences for a fresh batch. Click a sentence to drop it (click again to bring it back); Copy puts the kept sentences on your clipboard, one per line. Press Make sentences again any time for new ones.

Single-syllable content words only, for now — the focus is short, readable sentences while children are still building their sounds. Everything is remembered on this computer; use Clear saved settings at the bottom to start fresh.