Ideas That Really Work!: Activities for Teaching English and Language Arts

✍ Scribed by Cheryl Miller Thurston

• Publisher: Prufrock Press, Inc.
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 206
• Edition: 4th, spiral
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

No matter the age (we are a high school), students like to be silly and some of the plans in this book will allow the students to be learning while having fun...

✦ Table of Contents

Copyright
......Page 3
Table of Contents
......Page 4
Ideas, Ideas, Ideas......Page 8
Homemade Bread and English Compositions......Page 10
“I Decided to Just Teach”......Page 14
Helping Students Help Each Other......Page 15
Vocabulary Study Doesn’t Need to Be Boring......Page 17
Cars in Class......Page 19
Cars......Page 21
Imagine That......Page 22
Helping Students Learn to Appreciate Differences......Page 25
Eccentrics......Page 26
Everyone Is Different......Page 28
Following Instructions......Page 29
Following Instructions: A Test......Page 31
Cartoon Prose......Page 32
Cartoon Time......Page 33
The Truth vs. the Whole Truth......Page 39
You Can Prove Anything If You Want......Page 40
The “M”–ey Awards (Teacher Instructions)......Page 41
The “M”–ey Awards (Student Instructions)......Page 42
Kerfuffle......Page 43
Fun with Writing......Page 46
Writing Clearly......Page 48
S-S-S-S-S-Secret Message......Page 51
Word Snapshots......Page 52
Be Specific #1......Page 57
Be Specific #2......Page 58
Groans and Grins......Page 59
Mythological Monsters......Page 60
Good, Clean Slang......Page 61
Slang Is Here to Stay......Page 62
Making Your Slang Dictionary Entries......Page 64
Say It in Slang......Page 66
Twenty-Five Words or Less......Page 68
One Syllable Challenge......Page 69
Toenails and Juice Boxes......Page 70
Ridiculous Similes......Page 71
Lessons in Writing......Page 72
Be as Interesting as Possible......Page 74
The Candidate......Page 75
Explaining Explain......Page 76
What Is a Composition? (Teacher Instructions)......Page 79
What Is a Composition? (Student Instructions)......Page 80
Moving My Curfew......Page 82
Moving My Curfew—Questions......Page 83
I’ll Take a Cat......Page 84
I’ll Take a Cat—Questions......Page 85
Writing an Introduction......Page 86
Introduction to Plenzenarks......Page 90
Hector Hillerman’s Favorite Things......Page 91
Things About Me......Page 94
Things About Hector Hillerman......Page 95
Plagiarism (Teacher Instructions)......Page 96
In Your Own Words......Page 97
What Is Plagiarism?......Page 98
Parts of Speechless......Page 100
What’s That Smell—Writing with the Senses
......Page 101
Alphabet Adjectives......Page 102
Verbs Rule!......Page 103
When Tina Saw the Tortured Can Openers......Page 105
The Dorpersnoodle Assignment (Teacher Instructions)......Page 107
The Dorpersnoodle Assignment (Student Instructions)......Page 108
Hyperbole......Page 109
Summarizing......Page 110
Activities for Speech......Page 112
Helping Students See that Speech Habits Do Make a Difference......Page 114
With Slang /Without Slang......Page 117
Helping Students See the Power of Being Positive......Page 119
Lessons in Grammar and Punctuation......Page 120
Grammar Ideas for Teachers Who Hate Teaching Grammar......Page 122
Prepositions Are Boring Words......Page 125
Activities with Adjectives......Page 128
Using Quotations Marks—An Introduction......Page 131
The Apostrophe......Page 134
Teaching Sentence Structure—Without Teaching a Lot of Rules......Page 138
Sentence Structure......Page 140
The Semicolon......Page 142
Impress Someone; Use a Semicolon......Page 144
Practice with Semicolons......Page 145
Thank Heaven for Pronouns......Page 146
Activities for Different Seasons......Page 148
This Year, I Hope......Page 150
September Brain Strain......Page 151
Fears......Page 152
Not for the Squeamish......Page 154
No More Gore......Page 155
I’m Thankful for......Page 156
Thanksgiving “T” Time......Page 157
Curing December Doldrums......Page 158
Always Wear Clean Underwear......Page 160
Sports Mania......Page 161
75 Ideas for the Last Month of School......Page 162
Spring 100 Challenge......Page 168
Games......Page 170
“Verbing” Down the Alphabet......Page 172
Longer and Longer—A Letter at a Time......Page 173
Vocabulary Puzzle......Page 174
Whining—“I Hate It When”......Page 175
Lipograms......Page 177
English......Page 178
Did You Really Fall Into a Vat of Anchovies?......Page 179
Using List Mania......Page 181
List Mania......Page 182
More List Mania......Page 183
The Name Game......Page 184
Answer Keys and Sample Answers......Page 186
About the Author
......Page 205

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Английский язык;Английский язык как родной / English as a First Language;Teaching English as a First Language;