Quick and Easy Grammar Games to Boost Writing Power
No. of pages 144
Published: 2005
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Jump start students' verbal powers with a series of lively activities designed to hone writing, speaking, and listening skills. Each unit contains: teacher tips (making sure teachers understand the concept-very useful to home schoolers); a game with warm up activities and lesson plan; follow up activities; homework helper; and writing practice. The book offers reproducibles and step- by-step instructions. Topics for instruction include the parts of speech, punctuation, and beginning sentence structure.
Quick and Easy Grammar Games to Boost Writing Power helps teachers jump start their students' verbal powers with a series of lively activities designed to hone writing, speaking, and listening skills. The lesson plans accompanying each activity are user-friendly and easy to follow. This book aims to give children a distinct advantage in becoming better writers and speakers by giving them a knowledge of grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure. Structured for early learners, the activities may be adapted for children in the prewriting stage. Each unit contains: teacher tips (making sure teachers understand the concept-very useful to home schoolers); a game with warm up activities and lesson plan; follow up activities; homework helper; and writing practice. The book offers reproducibles and step-by-step instructions. Topics for instruction include the parts of speech, punctuation, and beginning sentence structure.
There are 144 pages in this book. This book was published 2005 by ABC-CLIO .
Catherine DePino, EdD, has had years of hands-on experience with bullies and the bullied through her work as a high school teacher and student disciplinarian in the Philadelphia school system. She is the author of numerous books for children and adults, including Blue Cheese Breath and Stinky Feet . She lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with her husband, Andrew, a retired teacher. Visit her at www. catherinedepino. com.
This book has the following chapters: Action Verbs Linking Verbs Nouns Pronouns Adjectives Adverbs Prepositions and Phrases Conjunctions Simple Sentences Sentence Purpose Capital Letters Commas More Punctuation (Apostrophes and Quotation Marks) Sentence Problems: Run-On Sentences and Sentence Fragments Appendix Answer Key