Write the (61 words) sentence to the board, plus # box areas

Put students in # groups

Students can send one person to the board to “capture” words
Students capture words by erasing 1,2 or 3 consecutive words and re-writing them in
their box on the board
Grammar must stay correct at all times (punctuation excluded)
Winning team has captured the largest number of words.
Final sentence usually has 2 words only (e.g. I had or a man)

I had never before this morning seen with my own two eyes a tall dark and handsome
Indian man sitting quietly cross legged on a red and green wool carpet with both his eyes
closed and his two hands on his knees slowly rise from the ground and quickly fly away
by the open window in the bright blue morning sky!