Book Description
Five-Minute Activities is an invaluable source of ideas for language teachers. It contains resources of over 130 short activities for the language classroom: some are well-tried favourites clearly restated, others are new ideas or variations. Teachers will find activities which can be used to: * help learners to learn or practise particular aspects of language * help students and teacher to get to know each other * provide a smooth transition between two major parts of a lesson * supplement a coursebook * introduce or round off lessons. The activities are designed to combine learning value with interest and enjoyment. Most of them can be adapted to suit classes of different levels of ability, and in many cases there are additional suggestions for variations or extensions of the basic activity. Almost all the activities can be student-led.
Customer Reviews:
Endlessly useful.......2007-08-11
I taught adult EFL in Poland this summer, and this book was the most popular by far with all the teachers. Even if you don't use an activity straight out of the book, flipping through helped me generate ideas of my own. Yes, it very much depends on your students, class size, level, etc.--but what's new about that? The activities range from the true quickie "filler" to sound ideas on practicing grammar points. And yes, I did have to adapt most of the ideas, but that's nothing new either. It's pricey, but I think worth it.
Ideas, but they are few and obvious.......2007-02-19
I only found one idea that I'd consider using in this book. It's thin for $25.00 and the activities are largely variants on very simple ideas I've already seen in fifty other places. I don't think you need this book unless you really have no ideas at all, in which case it's as good as any other book.
Useful.......2007-02-13
I have already used some of the activities in class.
Oriented more to high school, and I have early college ESL
I take exception for its usefulness for EVERY teaching situation..........2006-03-20
This book has been of limited usefullness for me. I've found only a few activities in here that would be practical for my classes of 40 Korean middle schoolers, but I also believe I'm in a bit of an unusual situation trying to teach English to such big classes. That being said, I did find it useful for, if nothing else, getting my own ideas rolling. I would also like to add that it's rather pricey for a flimsy little book, but I'm sure that if my situation were different it would have been well worth the money. I can pretty much recommend it to everyone EXCEPT those with unusually large class sizes, but it would be good for them too if they could find it used. Otherwise there are good resources to be found online for free.
Good Activity Resource Book.......2005-07-20
This book contains many quick activities that require little preparation. It's a good tool for use in the EFL classroom. Many of the activities seem geared for middle school and up, though they can be easily adapted for elementary students. This book would be quicker to use if the activities were marked as appropriate for beginner, intermediate and advanced at the beginning of the description.
Book Description
How does Toni Morrison make bad times seem sweet? How can Shakespeare make a character say one thing and mean another? Help your students understand how writers control voice so they can express a voice of their own.
Voice Lessons procides 100 historically and culturally diverse passages from world literature. Each sharply focused exaples targets a specific component of voice, presenting it in a short manageable exercise that functions well as a class opener. Activity pages may be reproduced.
The activities also serve as writing promprs, with space on the reproducible pages for students to respond to discussion suggestions for teachers.
Use Voice Lessons with any high school curriculum. Prepare your high school students for Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, and other examinations tha tdemand an understanding of the subtle elements that comprise an author's unique voice: diction, detail, imagery, syntax, and tone.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent resource for teaching voice.......2007-01-06
This title was recommended to me by our AP English teacher and she was right. A few simple lessons from each section and my high school students had a much better understanding of voice.
Great book for HS English teachers!.......2006-06-14
Voice is perhaps the hardest of the 6 traits to teach. With my sophomore core English students, I would do 1 voice lesson each week for their warm up and it was amazing how much more accessible that vague idea of "voice" came to both myself and my students over the school year. The whole English department at my school uses Voice Lessons...9th grade teachers do a certain number, 10th grade, etc. By the time a student graduates, they will have done all the voice lessons. I wholeheartedly recommend this book to any English teacher or teacher who teaches writing (and which teachers don't?!).
Good Beginning!.......2006-03-09
This book is good for a class warmup. It probably could benefit from more indepth questions or more complex examples built on the
basic ones in the book, but it is very easy for the students to
comprehend. It might be a bit too basic for anything more than
grade level classes. The questions and answers are very obvious
for my Pre Ap students. I think it is a very good start!
Wonderful highschool english activities to introduce students to Voice!.......2005-08-26
My students love these activities. It allows them to view voice in other authors' works and then to create their own. Great resource!
You mean... writing can be FUN?.......2005-08-07
This is an amazing find. Nancy Dean creates simple exercises that invite students to notice the craft behind all great writing. With intriguing quotes and delicious discussion starters, students cannot help but start to talk about word choice, sentence structure, tone, etc. Instead of force-feeding students with heavy terminology and rote memorization of how grammar works, Dean instead helps teachers create an environment in which those students ask for that same terminology in order to better express their thoughts. This book goes beyond forcing students to regurgitate dry terms by engaging students' innate abilities to critically assess what they read. A must have!
Product Description
3 - 8 years. Children who are aware of phonemes move easily into inventive spelling and reading. Activity cards can be cut out and laminated to create a handy file of activities. Includes a selection of reproducible picture cards, word cards, and manipulatives. Organized by stages of reading and writing acquisition. 128 pgs.
Customer Reviews:
From a 32 year veteran teacher........2006-08-30
This is a great book to use with prek students as well as kindergarten and first graders. The lesson plans are there to use as is or to be modified to fit the needs of your students.
Woderful!.......2006-03-08
I have found this book wonderful. It brings us tools to teach phonemic awareness to children that are struggling readers. It has a lot of activities they like and step by step are taking them to the beautiful world readers have.
This book is a must for every teacher!
No Regrets Here!! This is the BEST book EVER!!.......2003-01-18
I am a new teacher and I am trying to build up a library of resources. I bought this book hoping it would be helpful. I am so glad I purchased it. The activities are simple and concise, but they were developed with the children in mind. They will enrich your higher kids and strengthen your lower readers. Great for Kindergarten to intro basic phonics, super for first grade!! They will be fun to use in the classroom. The book is also FULL of information about phonics and linguistics. Do not hesitate purchasing this book.
A must have!!!.......2001-06-21
If you are teaching kindergarten through second grade, you must have this and use it in your classroom. It has activities that covers every area of phonemic awareness. It gives you many activities for each section so your children will never get bored with your lessons. Uses all modalities. I can't say enough good things about this book.
An excellent book for kindergarten teachers!.......1999-06-16
This book was recommended to me by my sister (also a k teacher), and I used these phonemic awareness activities during the last school year -- not only did the activities help my whole class overall, but they also helped me identify which kids were struggling and needed more help. And they were fun for the kids, too, which made teaching it so much easier. My school has been buzzing about phonemic awareness and phonological awareness for a couple of years now, but we haven't had a good way to actually teach it directly until we used these activities. I highly recommend this book!
Book Description
"I thoroughly enjoyed reading this user-friendly book, and plan to share the activities with teachers working with struggling readers."
-Catherine Duffy, English Chairperson
Three Village Central School District, East Setauket, NY
"Teachers and students will find this collection filled with a variety of fun and practical approaches to instruction in the language arts which are classroom-tested and based on the most current research."
-Dr. William T. Hammond, Literacy Coordinator
DeKalb County Schools, Stone Mountain, GA
What if your students were motivated and actively engaged in reading and language arts activities?
According to experts in the field, reading and language arts skills are best acquired when students are actively engaged in their own learning
. Reading and Language Arts Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites focuses on brain-based literacy strategies for Grades K-12, structured around the International Reading Association and National Council of Teachers of English standards. It contains over 300 activities from hundreds of teachers as well as the author’s own classroom models.
This practical resource is dedicated to literacy strategies that apply to the way students learn to read and read to learn. These hands-on techniques will help you teach reading in relevant, motivating, and engaging ways. The activities cover essential areas of literacy instruction, including:
- Phonemic awareness
- Phonics and vocabulary instruction
- Text comprehension
- Reading authentically, widely, and strategically
- Writing strategically
- Creating, critiquing, and discussing texts
- Conducting research
- Using technological resources
- Respecting diversity in language
- Participating in literary communities
- Using language to accomplish purposes
Unless students are involved and actively engaged in learning, true learning rarely occurs. Invite your students to use their higher-level thinking skills, increase their comprehension, and make the learning their own!
Customer Reviews:
GET THIS BOOK!.......2005-08-09
If you teach English in middle school or high school, you need this book! If you're tired of the "same old way" of teaching and find you often have discipline problems because your students are bored, GET THIS BOOK!
Book Description
Building Reading Comprehension Habits in Grades 6-12 offers middle school and high school teachers in all curricular areas research-based, innovative activities to strengthen students' reading comprehension.
The activities in the book are organized around six automatic habits of reading comprehension that help proficient readers actively construct meaning as they read:
1) Organizing text information by sculpting the main idea and summarizing
2) Connecting to background knowledge
3) Making inferences and predictions
4) Generating and answering questions
5) Understanding and remembering word meanings
6) Monitoring one's own comprehension
The chapters define and describe the habits, then provide activities that you can use to strengthen students' use of the habits. Each activity offers a brief description of the activity's purpose and a step-by-step procedure for putting it into place.
SPECIAL FEATURE: Most activities offer reproducible graphic organizers reproducible graphic organizers and variations on the activities to help English language learners, struggling readers, and other students who need extra support.
AUDIENCE: Middle school and high school preservice and inservice teachers, teacher educators, remedial teachers, reading specialists, supervisors and administrators.
Customer Reviews:
Great tips on teaching.......2007-07-26
Mr. Zwiers has come up with some great reading activities for the classroom. They are easy to understand and modify. It is a great resource for teachers looking for ways to reach their students.
Reading Comp Made Easy.......2006-03-05
This book gives good strategies to use with students to increase their reading comprehension. I am using the textbook for my reading and writing class but I know I will refer to it once I start teaching.
Great Ideas.......2006-02-27
The book arrived in time for me to use it for my Master's class. It was also utilized by a friend of mine who is already a teacher. She said the book is one of the best she's seen and needs to be used as textbook by Master's Programs in Education.
This is definitely a must-have for anybody who is going into teaching
An excellent and highly useful resource.......2004-05-11
Of the many books on reading strategies, this one had the highest quantity of innovative activities (tools) that I need for my social studies and language arts classes. I love the many clever reproducibles and how they help develop the six reading strategies (habits) in engaging ways--especially for my students who are not usually interested in reading or becoming better readers! This book inspired me to model my thinking more as I read to students and to create my own visuals and activities that build comprehension processes. This will be a well-used book. Thanks!
Product Description
Looking for tips on how to teach a student who speaks only a little English or none at all? This quick and easy guide provides advice for preparing for a new student, assessing needs and abilities, communicating with a student's family, and more.
Customer Reviews:
For US students only!.......2007-07-08
I teach English to children in France and this book has very little content geared for my needs and not worth the $12 I spent. I love to teach with mini-books that I create myself, so I was drawn to the title. However, I found the ones offered here very dull, i.e. copying number words, rather than engaging their creativity by having them illustrate the number word. Other mini-books teach the Pledge of Allegiance, This Land is Your Land, and writing the alphabet - also not appropriate for my needs. But as someone who is always looking for appropriate clip art for my lessons, I agree with the other reviewers that the illustrations are appealing and helpful for teaching basic vocabulary, and can be used in many ways.
Excellent.......2006-03-10
I used this book to teach 2nd graders of an Elementary school in Mexico. They loved the activities!
Beginning ESL.......2005-09-14
Although this book is more for children, there are some pages I was able to use for my adult ESL course. There are some nice diagrams along with good ideas on how to begin a level one class.
Invaluable resourse.......2004-07-31
I recently taught ESL in China for a few weeks and found this book incredibly useful. Although marketed as being for grades 1-4, I found this book helpful for even high school students--it depends more on the level of language proficiency than anything else. For example, I used the "parts of the body" page to review what my students already knew, and then they filled in more complicated words such as thigh, shoulder, ankle, etc. The money page has very realistic drawings of the various coins, all of which were new to my students. The food pages were very helpful before moving on to more complicated lessons on ordering in a restaurant. A great book for a modest price!
Excellent for Young Learners!.......2003-04-27
As a teacher of young learners, I struggle to find resources that truly meet the needs of my students, most of whom are just beginning to read and write in English. This book, however, has proven to be a goldmine. Kids and parents alike love the make-and-take books, while I love the flexibility of each unit. I've used the simple drawings to make charts, flashcards, games, etc. to accompany thematic units and have even used a few of the worksheets to review basic concepts with older kids. I'm giving the book a four instead of a five because the unit topics are quite basic. Once students know colors, numbers, letters, shapes, body parts, basic food items, and basic school terminology, this book basically goes back on the shelf until you get your next room full of beginners. But if you teach young learners with limited language skills, this book is a must have.
Product Description
An innovative, developmental approach to teaching phonics and spelling. Contains lessons in which students select letters to build short and long words. Effective tools for strengthening spelling and phonics skills. Making Words is a multilevel book that explores words and letter patterns while increasing vocabularies. Gr. 1-3 (192 pp.) Brand: FRANK SCHAFFER PUBLICATIONS Item # GA-1498
Customer Reviews:
Creative.......2007-01-10
This concept keeps kids interested. They want to figure out the little words and the big words created by the letters, so it's an excellent one for phonics. If you already use Open Court, it would be a good supplement. There is some prep time involved in writing and cutting the letters, unless you're smarter than me and use die-cut letters from a bulletin board!!
Making Words.......2006-02-25
This book is great! There are many word activities to choose from, which I find very helpful and a time saver!
Primary/ ESL class must have!.......2005-09-14
This book is wonderful for primary grades as well as ESL classes. It's interactive and the kids love it. We use it every morning when we enter the "Wonderful World of Words." There is also a Making Big Words for intermediate grades! I definitely recommend it!
Best spelling book!.......2002-12-12
This is the best spelling book I have seen. I am a homeschooling mom of 2 boys (9 & 8) and this is the easiest method and they enjoy it too!
Super primary resource.......2001-06-28
I use this resource with my first graders in conjunction with our phonics program. It is a super hands-on way to reach those tactile-kinesthetic learners!
Book Description
75 Quick Activities & Games that Help kids Learn About Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs & More
Grammar That Sticks!
These 75 classroom-tested games and activities will help your students learn and remember the grammar they need to know. Noun Tick Tac Toe, Adjective Bingo, Adverb Charades, Hinky Pinky Adjectives, Poetic Prepositions, and Verb Detectives are just some of the engaging games and activities sure to make your grammar lessons lively and memorable.
Customer Reviews:
Grammar Lessons.......2007-09-30
Great addition to the classroom. Adds some fun and creativity to teaching grammar in the elementary classroom. Easy to prepare for activities.
Not what I expected for homeschool.......2005-09-11
If you are looking for a workbook with pages to do, this is not it. I guess this would be "Fun with Grammer" if you have more than one child. It's mainly games you can play to learn grammer, which takes more than one child to play. Classrooms and larger groups could benefit greatly with this book.
Hands on grammar!.......2003-06-12
I have many grammar activity books, but this is definitely the best! It includes many ideas for learning grammar in a way kids don't even realize they are learning because they are having so much fun doing them! For example, my students loved to make "animal prepositional poems". I had another teacher borrow the book, and she bought it herself! With this book you are teaching quality not quantity.
Hands on grammar!.......2003-06-12
I have many grammar activity books, but this is definitely the best! It includes many ideas for learning grammar in a way kids don't even realize they are learning because they are having so much fun doing them! For example, my students loved to make "animal prepositional poems". I had another teacher borrow the book, and she bought it herself! With this book you are teaching quality not quantity.
Book Description
25 Lively Learning Games That Make Teaching Phonics Easy and Fun
Includes Ready-to-use Patterns!
Alphabet Soup, Cereal Box Consonant Search, Clown Slide Blends, Flip the Vowel Flapjacks . . . . Kids will clamor for these irresistible games and activities that teach the alphabet, consonants, blends, vowels, and more. Classroom tested!
Customer Reviews:
Most games geared for preschool to first grade.......2006-03-15
While the Grade level on the book states Grades K-2 much of the
games and activities in the book are geared more towards alphabet and letter learning.
Excellent Resource!.......2001-05-24
I have checked this book out from the library numerous times and am now waiting to recieve my own copy!! This book contains the best hands-on phonics games I have ever seen. Each activity is throughly explained, vividly pictured, and uses skills much needed in the early primary classroom. The activities are fun, colorful, effective, and requires materials you have on hand or can easily and cheaply purchase. All activities are made by you and full patterns are included within the book. I have used the activities in several different ways: at home with my own children as review, part of a lesson as an introduction in the classroom, at the end of a unit of study as review and reward, and as centers all over the room to promote retention of skills already taught. The games are so fun and creative that the children do not know the depths of knowledge they are requiring by playing! SHHHH it's our little secret!! A great find!
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Customer Reviews:
Must Have For Teachers.......2000-10-02
One of the most truly useful books to come along in a long time. This book needs to be in the hands of every elementary teacher. The ideas are useful, practical and easy to implement. Once more, all of the suggestions that I have used in both my elementary class and my masters college classes have been met with success. They show ways to bring the joy back into learning in this test concious atmosphere. As adjunct faculty to Nova Southeastren University in Ft. Lauderdale, I recommend this book to all of my college students as a source they must have. It is always wonderful to see a book by real teachers for teachers. My thanks to them for sharing some of their "tricks of the trade" that make them such successful teachers. Education needs more like them.
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