Jane Bell Kiester transforms the sentence-a-day approach to teaching grammar, usage, and mechanics into an intriguing and easy skill-builder. Teachers of students in grades 3-12 save valuable planning time with these classroom-proven soap opera plots ready for the blackboard or overhead. One story each for elementary, middle, and high school, easily adapted to your own classroom. Includes machine-readable tests, keys, plot outlines, and spin-off activities.
Jane Bell Kiester, author of the popular Caught'ya! Grammar with a Giggle series, has adapted her effective and fun approach to meet the specific learning needs of middle-school students. This resource improves writing and editing skills, raises test scores, engages students, and creates classrooms filled with giggles! Giggles in the Middle offers middle-school teachers all the benefits of the previous Caught'ya! books, plus some helpful "extras" created especially for the middle-school student. You'll find: One continuous story, "The Bizarre Mystery of Horribly Hard Middle School," divided into three parts, each with enough sentences for an entire school year; Classroom-tested writing assignment suggestions, mini-lessons, and teaching tips; "Almost-midterm" and final exam tests for each grade, with teacher keys; Easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions; Complete vocabulary lists for words used in each story; and A CD with the Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics Guide for easy reference and duplication; the complete, uninterrupted story in narrative form; and the Caught'ya! sentences. Giggles in the Middle gives middle-school teachers the perfect alternative to boring grammar books and dry lectures. With this flexible, proven approach to developing grammar, usage, and mechanics (GUM) skills, as well as vocabulary, everyone has fun while they learn!
Holy Moldy Bread Contest! Kiester strikes again with four more stories plus mini-lessons, writing workshops, and a complete grammar reference. Solid classroom-proven techniques turn students into better writers. Includes teacher keys, tests, and special notes for the home school teacher. A time-saver that really works!
With Putrescent Petra Finds Friends, second-grade students will have fun learning vocabulary and practicing punctuation, capitalization, verb tenses, and paragraphing skills as they follow the adventures of a skunk who befriends a classroom. Clear instructions help you integrate the proven Caught'ya approach easily into your classroom. And for your convenience, the supplemental CD contains the Caught'ya sentences formatted in Word for duplication, along with writing suggestions and activities, a complete and easy-to-use grammar reference with examples and teaching tips, and other helpful tools.
Good grief! Is nothing sacred? Jane Bell Kiester transforms Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Much Ado about Nothing into the best way ever to teach grammar, mechanics, vocabulary, and usage to high school students. Easy to adapt to your specific needs, this fun resource gives you three years' worth of sentences, final tests with answer keys, literary devices, daily vocabulary words, lesson plans, a handy grammar reference, and a mix-and-match menu of Elizabethan swear words. Created especially to meet the needs of high school teachers and students. By the author of Caught'ya Grammar with a Giggle, and Caught'ya Again! More Grammar with a Giggle.
A comanion to the New York Times #1 best-seller Eats, Shoots & Leaves, this is punctuation play at its finest! Just as the use of commas was hilariously demystified in Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!, now Lynne Truss and Bonnie Timmons put their talents together to do the same for apostrophes. Everyone needs to know where to put an apostrophe to make a word plural or possessive (Are those sticky things your brother's or your brothers?) and leaving one out of a contraction can give someone the completely wrong impression (Were here to help you). Full of silly scenes that show how apostrophes make a difference, too, this is another picture book that will elicit bales of laughter and better punctuation from all who read it. A New York Times Bestseller Parents’ Choice Silver Honor Winner
In Juan and Marie Join the Class, third-grade students will have fun learning about the language and customs of Mexico and France as they master vocabulary, punctuation, literary devices, and sentence structure. Clear instructions help you integrate the proven Caught'ya! approach easily into your classroom. And for your convenience, the supplemental CD contains the Caught'ya! sentences formatted in Word for duplication, along with writing suggestions and activities, a complete and easy-to-use grammar reference with examples and teaching tips, and other helpful tools.
The Daily Spark series gives classroom teachers a dynamic way of delivering stimulating and effective exercises to get students motivated at the start of class. Each book in the series features 180 exercises, one for each day of the school year. These small, handy books are brightly designed for quick and easy reproduction. Each Daily Spark prompt is uniquely tailored for subject matter; while one may present a short problem, another may pose a provocative question or ask students to write a brief poem or journal entry.
