Vietnamese Sentence Builder | Monolingual Heritage Language Kit

Language: Vietnamese only. This is a monolingual Vietnamese sentence-building kit. It does not include a separate English word bank or a bilingual set of word tiles.

Give children a meaningful way to practice the Vietnamese they hear at home and help them turn familiar words into complete sentences.

The JOYA Vietnamese Sentence Builder was created especially for heritage learners, bilingual families, and children learning Vietnamese outside a traditional language school. With 140 removable language tiles, 18 illustrated picture prompts, and reusable learning boards, children can practice vocabulary, grammar, reading, and speaking through hands-on play.

Whether your child understands Vietnamese but usually answers in English, is just beginning to learn the family language, or is ready to create more complex sentences, this kit provides an open-ended way to practice at their own level.

WHAT CHILDREN CAN PRACTICE:

• Building complete Vietnamese sentences
• Vietnamese pronouns and common forms of address
• Everyday actions, objects, descriptions, and locations
• Questions and negative sentences
• Numbers, quantities, and classifiers
• Time and aspect using words such as đã, đang, and sẽ
• Comparisons, reasons, conditions, and connected ideas
• Reading sentences aloud and speaking with greater confidence
• Creating original sentences beyond the picture prompts

WHAT IS INCLUDED:

• 140 removable Vietnamese language tiles: words, phrases, and punctuation
• 18 illustrated picture prompt cards
• 1 main sentence-building board
• 2 Word Bank storage boards
• Guided Challenge Boards
• Laminated, reusable hook-and-loop components

MADE FOR DIFFERENT LEARNING LEVELS:

The open-ended format allows the material to grow with the learner.

Beginning learners can build short, concrete sentences using familiar people, actions, and objects. Developing learners can add descriptions, quantities, locations, questions, and negation. More experienced learners can practice time and aspect, comparisons, reasons, conditions, sequence, and connected clauses.

The kit can support children from Kindergarten through Grade 9, depending on their Vietnamese proficiency and the level of adult guidance provided.

LANGUAGE FORMAT:

The language tiles are printed in Vietnamese and do not include word-for-word English translations. Brief English instructional guidance appears on the learning board to help parents and educators facilitate the activity.

The bank uses standard written Vietnamese, with vocabulary selected to be broadly understandable across Northern and Southern Vietnamese usage.

HOW TO USE:

1. Choose an illustrated picture prompt or create your own idea.
2. Find the Vietnamese tiles needed to express the idea.
3. Arrange the tiles to build a complete sentence.
4. Read the sentence aloud.
5. Change one or more tiles to create a new sentence.

IDEAL FOR:

• Vietnamese heritage learners
• Vietnamese-American families
• Maintaining Vietnamese as a family language
• Homeschool and after-school language practice
• Parents teaching Vietnamese at home
• Tutors, teachers, and community language programs
• Screen-free vocabulary, grammar, reading, and speaking activities

WHY FAMILIES LOVE IT:

• Hands-on and screen-free
• Reusable for continued practice
• Supports multiple ages and proficiency levels
• Encourages children to speak in complete sentences
• Helps connect vocabulary with meaningful communication
• Can be used independently or with an adult

Each kit is assembled by hand. Colors and hardware may vary slightly from the photos.

Adult supervision is recommended.

PHYSICAL VIETNAMESE LEARNING KIT — NO DIGITAL FILES WILL BE SENT.