Awesome Hands-on Activities For Teaching Grammar
Author(s):
Susan Van Zile
Label: Teaching Resources
Publisher(s):
Teaching Resources
Studio: Teaching Resources
Manufacturer: Teaching Resources
Binding: Paperback
Brand: Scholastic
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Customer Reviews
Good for supplemental activities
I needed something fresh and different to use in my 7th grade Literacy classes and this book gave some ideas to make grammar a bit more engaging. The activities are good for review.
Fun
There are a lot of great ideas in this book, I'm sure I'll be using quite a few of them in my classes. Sometimes you read a book of activities and wonder if kids would actually enjoy doing them but even though there are some silly moments in this book I think it was worth the money.
Good...But Not As Good As I Expected
There were several activities in this book which I enjoyed..."Stomp Out Run-Ons" and "Fragment Puzzle." However, many of the activities were not creative and required long paper trails and lots of floor space. I think I would use the noun tree next year, but I received the book after having already covered that topic next year. Overall, I didn't think the book was "hands-on" enough to call itself "awesome."
Very Useful
This book was extremely helpful to us in a 6th Grade Language Arts unit. this is filled with GAMES and ACTIVE ways to explore nouns, verbs, sentences - types, fragments, and run-ons.
Using the student's multiple intelligences, you actually make language interesting! You read the lesson idea beforehand, gather materials, and then lead the child or class through an activity.
I found it the perfect program to mix with dry sentence diagramming from elsewhere - to lift up the lesson. Afte such creative fun, my son didn't mind getting in front of a blackboard with me to diagram a few sentences.
Also, instead of just deciding if a verb was a verb, we now decide if it is "vivid" and look at nouns as specific or general - great for strengthening creative writing...and with activities across all learning styles, not lecture. That is hard to find in middle school language arts.
As a homeschooler, I did notice two teacher terms used (perhaps this is what the earlier reviewer was referring to) - mnemonics (rhymes for teaching) and rubric (like a short chart explaining something) - and some of the activities have to be adapted as they were designed for a group - still most activities didn't need any adaptation and I was totally pleased with the way my child responded to these active lessons.
A bit dated
This book is okay, but there are a lot of references that students today will not get because they are a bit dated. This was probably an excellent book in the 1980's.
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