Grammar Games & Activities That Boost Writing Skills: Dozens of Engaging Grammar Manipulatives, Games, and Activities to Teach and Reinforce Parts of Speech, Capitalization, Punctuation, and More (Paperback)

Posted by qpen on April 30, 2010

Make grammar skills stick with dozens and dozens of highly motivating, hands-on games and activities! Packed with reproducible game boards and engaging manipulatives, this resource provides fresh, fun-filled activities on all the key topics: capitalization, punctuation, parts of speech, plurals, contractions, and more. Great for learning centers! For use with Grades 2-4.

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Engaging the Online Learner: Activities and Resources for Creative Instruction (Online Teaching and Learning Series (OTL)) (Paperback)

Posted by qpen on January 15, 2010

Review

“Conrad and Donaldson have definitely written a book that an inspire teachers to be creative and resourceful!”  (Authors Journal Compilation, Winter 2007)

Engaging the Online Learners includes an innovative framework—the Phases of Engagement—that helps instructors become more involved as knowledge generators and cofacilitators of a course. The book also provides specific ideas for tested activities (collected from experienced online instructors acros (more…)

Quick Nonfiction Writing Activities That Really Work!: 64 Engaging Reproducible Activities That Help Students Develop Strong Topics, Organize Information, and Present Their Ideas Effectively (Paperback)

Posted by qpen on November 11, 2009

Developed by a widely published writer and humorist, these 15-minute reproducible activities teach key nonfiction writing skills—and have major kid appeal! Activities cover all the essentials, including finding and developing a topic, describing vividly, using quotations, organizing ideas effectively, strengthening sentence structure, and many more. For use with Grades 4–6.

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