180 Reproducible Activities to Teach Spelling, Phonics, and Vocabulary

Teach elementary students the proper spelling rules in English language in a fun and easy way!

The Spelling Teacher's Lesson-a-Day supplies teachers with 180 engaging and effective lessons that would fill spelling knowledge to students of grades 3-6 everyday for the rest of the school year. These lessons can be a good introduction, for it provides five-minute lessons and activities to start off each school day, or teachers may use it as a resource for occasional spelling lessons. Fry helps the students understand spelling patterns in complex words by teaching homophones (like-sounding words). He also boosts students' spelling skills by including lessons about demystifying contractions, abbreviations, capitalization, silent letters, suffixes and prefixes, and many more. 

* Offers an easy-to-use method of teaching that has been proven to be effective in boosting students' spelling skills
* Includes 180 ready-to-use, reproducible lessons and activities that are sufficient for each day of the school year
* A new and updated volume added to the series 5-Minute FUNdamentals with new fun spelling lessons and activities

This book was designed to be used by classroom teachers, homeschoolers, tutors, and parents.

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Take Five! for Language Arts by Kaye Hagler

180 bell-ringers that build critical thinking skills
Ever looked at your class during those hellish first five minutes of class, and wished you could somehow use that precious time for actual learning? Then you must not know about Take Five! This useful resource enables students to exercise mental muscles while honing language arts skills, as they engage in Common Core Standard-based lessons and exciting activities.

These range from inventing secret codes and concocting potions all the way to rewriting history and making conjuction paper chains, thinking like newspaper editors, and dozens upon dozens more. Variety and creativity abound in these tasks that will surely have your class anxiously looking forward to that moment of the day when you ask them to Take Five for critical thinking.

Over 180 prompts establish a learning environment from the instant that students step into your class. Each ready-to-use prompt includes a corresponding Common Core standards, supply lists, language arts links, teacher tips, assessment options, rubrics, and digital connections that add over 100 extension lessons.

Pupils in grades 3-9 will be delighted to begin every day of their school year with an invigorating rush of fun-based critical thinking thanks to this comprehensive resource. Ready? Set? Take Five!

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The Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day by Mary Ellen Ledbetter

180 Reproducible Prompts and Quick-Writes for the Secondary Classroom
Classroom-tested techniques that enhance secondary students' writing skills

The Writing Teacher's Activity-a-Day allows teachers, homeschoolers, and parents a range of 180 ready-made, reproducible activities that drastically improve writing skills in secondary students. Ledbetter's extensive consulting experience among language arts teachers and school districts across the country makes the basis for these classroom-tested activities; included in this book are compelling literary and writing lessons that teach students terms such as allegory, elaboration, irony, personification, propaganda, voice, and much more, while simultaneously offering them engaging samples to use as models for their own Quick Writes. 

* Includes writing skills activities in language easy to digest for students that links abstract literary notions to your student's daily lives 
* The author is well-known workshop presenter and veteran educator Mary Ellen Ledbetter 
* Features an accessible resource chock-filled with value for anyone teaching writing skills to secondary students.

Designed with English language arts teachers grades 6-12 in mind, as well as tutors, parents, learning specialists, homeschoolers, and educational consultants.

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The Grammar Teacher's Activity-a-Day by Jack Umstatter

Simple and speedy lessons that improve student grammar and writing skills

This thorough tome includes 180 lessons and activities, ready-made for classrooms, in the areas of grammar and usage. Students of grades 5-12 will acquire, amass and augment their grammar skills, becoming more adept and confident speakers and writers in the process. Long-time veteran educator and best-selling author Jack Umstatter guides teachers in ways to familiarize their students with the grammatical content they can expect to find in standardized tests at the local, state, national and college admissions levels. 

* Featuring ready-made and thorough, pedagogical activities for use as sponge activities, additional homework, even regular daily lesson plans* Reproducible activities are designed to be approachable and comprehensible for students * 

Additional titles by Umstatter include Grammar Grabbers!, 201 Ready-to-Use Word Games for the English Classroom, Brain Games!, and Got Grammar?

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Teach Terrific Grammar by Gary Muschla

Grades 6-8: A Complete Grammar Program for Use in Any Classroom
Improve grammar skills of all students grades 6-8!

This powerful teaching resource is the answer to those practical grammar exercises you've been searching for. Or to that supplemental material you wanted to spice up your lesson plan. Or if you simply want your students to better grasp the skills that will make them feel confident in their handle of language, this is it! All of the above! 

Teach Terrific Grammar, Grades 6-8 includes over 160 self-correcting grammar lessons in fun, puzzle-like format--complete with answer key--so inherently versatile, it is meant to be adapted to any pre-existing program or approach. Also included are 30 reproducible "Tip Sheets" to share with your students. These "Tip Sheets" review parts of speech and other important grammar rules, teaching them to:

Recognize sentence structure
Classify types of sentences
Identify parts of speech
Avoid fragments and run-ons
Use punctuation and capitalization together
Find grammatical mistakes
...and much more!

Before you know it, your pupils will be the masters of using language correctly, and true sharpshooters of grammatical mistakes!

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Awesome Hands-on Activities For Teaching Grammar by Susan Van Zile

Teachers across the nation have adopted daily proofreading exercises as a method for students to practice finding and fixing their own errors. These large-company-published exercises have also unleashed a "dozed off pupil" epidemic of similar proportion.

These typical proofreading exercises fail due to biting more than they can chew. Facts and information are endlessly crammed down a student's throat, as they are also supposed to learn how to write properly. A Sentence A Day is an entirely different approach. It's all about manageable, capricious, quirky sentences with a sense of humor about themselves. Students in practice receive small, daily doses of proofreading that don't overwhelm them. A few minutes of class time is all any exercise will require, permitting a very frequent and consistent reinforcement strategy over time.

Every page of the book displays an incorrect sentence, an example of a correction, and notes for the educator.

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Caught'ya! Grammar with a Giggle for Middle School by Jane Bell Kiester

Jane Bell Kiester, author of popular Caught'ya! Grammar with a Giggle series, has employed her trademark approach of equal measures of fun and effectiveness, this time to satisfy the specific learning requirements of middle-school students.

Giggles in the Middle is ideally suited as an alternative for teachers who wish to change up their routinary grammar books and tedious lectures. It is an adaptable, proven method for teaching grammar, usage and mechanics (GUM) skills and vocabulary. It's all laughs and learning, skills being used within their real context.

Included:
- A single,ongoing story, "The Bizarre Mystery of Horribly Hard Middle School," divided into three parts--each of which is designed to contain sufficient material for an entire school year.
- Classroom-tested writing assignment suggestions, mini-lessons, and teaching tips for the material.
- "Almost midterm" and final exam tests for each grade, with corresponding teacher answer keys.
- Easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions.
- Complete vocabulary lists for words used in each of the three parts of the story.
- For easy reference and duplication, a CD with the Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics Guide; the complete, uninterrupted story in narrative form; the midterm and final exam tests; and the Caught'ya sentences.

Giggles in the Middle will allow you to improve writing and editing skills in your class, raise standardized test scores, motivate students in learning, and fill your classroom with giggles!

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Grammar for Middle School by Don Killgallon

A Sentence-Composing Approach--A Student Worktext

For a long time now, the renowned sentence-composing approach pioneered by Don and Jenny Killgallon has been touching and changing the way in which writing is being taught in a myriad language arts classrooms. They have helped students from all over America in acquiring a deepened proficiency and sophistication in their writing. Finally, the Killgallons have compiled this highly effective method into a compelling textbook, one that truly fleshes out good writing in terms of its ever-so-unpleasant to teach cousin, grammar.

Grammar for Middle School: A Sentence-Composing Approach offers your class the opportunity to experience and emulate grammatical structures employed by the best writers of our times. There are over 150 featured authors, who have written in excess of 200 titles appearing over 400 model sentences in Grammar for Middle School. These authors include award-winning young-adult literature, such as Cynthia Voigt's Homecoming, popular favorites like J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter, and curricular staples such as John Steinbeck's The Red Pony and The Pearl.

Fourteen grammatical structures are played out in familiar, repeating, recognizable patterns, making use of the sentence-composing approach. Tools are promptly and unambiguously defined as well as characterized upon introduction to the student. Five activities then reassert the acquired tool immediately thereafter: matching, unscrambling, combining, imitating, and expanding. Afterwards, creative writing plunges the student into the field of writing, whether composing or revising a paragraph, by making independet use of the sentence-composing tools they have learned thus far. Conveniently, review activities finish off each section, and are ideally suited for practicing all skills together at once, as well as for grading as partial or final tests.

There is also an online teacher's guide that accompanies Grammar for Middle School--it includes advice, tips, resources, answer keys, even curricular plans for new teachers to the Killgallon approach as well as sentence-composing veterans.

Time and again it's been said that grammar and writing are paired together in education by Don and Jenny Killgallon in a manner unseen elsewhere. You too can try for yourself or rediscover how sincerely powerful the sentence-composing approach can be, and simply observe your students grasp grammar like never before--while writing better sentences too.

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