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Caught'Ya Again!: More Grammar With a Giggle

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I used Caught Ya for the first time last year with high schools (up to age nineteen) students who read and write between a third and sixth grade level. This program is excellent and works with all students. It is a strategy that makes even the most challenged students become successful and smart! It is fun and the kids truly enjoyed the challenge of "fixing" the sentence each day. Thanks for making grammar and vocabulary fun to teach! Buy this book.

May I also highly recommend the author's book "Blowing Away the State Writing Assessments". We incorporated it into our curriculum this year and highly recommend her four steps to increasing scores. I only wish the author was part of my faculty.

As a second-year 7th language arts teacher, I found this book to be an invaluable teaching tool! Following Kiester's proofreading sentence strategies, my students' test scores rose dramatically. The author also gives fantastic tips on enhancing reading and writing instruction, providing effective exercieses and ideas that my students thorougly enjoyed.

I have purchased many professional books / journals seeking to improve my teaching and students' attitudes towards grammar. If only these two books could have been my first purchases, then maybe I wouldn't have a dusty bookshelf full of rarely used teaching ideas. The prequel to this book, called Grammar With a Giggle is also a great buy. Both of these books contain strategies that I will continue to implement and expand upon!

i bought the two books together. the first is an absolute must. the second seems less applicable to me as a high school classroom teacher. a lot of it is directed at parents, tutors and homeschoolers -- if you fall into those categories, this book IS a must for you. i didn't get so much out of it. it does have more pre-fab stories, though. if you're not yet comfortable writing your own, you might want this.

Mrs. Kiester has done it again! Before I found Jane Bell Kiester's books, I didn't have a clear path to follow when teaching writing. The Caught'Ya books solve the problem of teaching your students grammar and mechanics. Each day students are given a sentence to correct that adds to a story line appropriate for their age group. Students become engaged in the learning process throughout the story and often can't wait to see what happens next. Students become intimately involved in the story as they become part of the story when the teacher inserts their name as a character in the story. Although Caught'Ya's are integral to the teaching of grammar and mechanics, the greatest bonus I found in using these wonderful sentences was the fact that students naturally and easily learn to paragraph appropriately. This is a difficult task to teach and for students to understand. Caught'Ya's solve this for teachers and students alike. If you can't purchase any other resource this year, you must purchase one of Jane Bell Kiester's Caught'Ya books! Your students will learn to write in a way that will improve all test scores! Do not hesitate! This is the perfect purchase.

I have taught English for more than 20 years, and have never had students look forward to the lessons taught in the Caught'ya style. It is excellent for developing proofreading skills, parts of speech, vocabulary development, and improved my students standardized test scores. It is fun for both teacher and student

I have been using this with my three older kids for the past year and this method has helped fill in some gaps and bring understanding to even my most grammar-phobic child! My boys (16, 13 and 11) are all using the same level and we review the sentence together daily, but they have all progressed nicely and painlessly. We will continue to supplement our English program with this easy program.

This is exactly what I needed to homeschool my 8th grade daughter in grammer. We moved to a new rural area and the public schools are horrible. Drop-out factories. And the private schools are only for the wealthy. We had no other choice. However, even our "good" school on the coast didn't do a very good job teaching grammer. I feel that going through the middle grade caught'yas and doing the suggested writing exercises from chapters 4 & 5, she'll be caught up and more prepared than 90% of her freshman class next year.

She enjoys the story and askes to do more than one sentence a day. She's already learning where the holes are from her previous grammer instruction and asking to work on them extra. This is a great resource. I'm also using Razzle Dazzle writing for supplemental writing work.

I have been using this book as bell work in my sixth grade language arts classes for fifteen years. My students love it, and I've found it to be a creative and effective technique in teaching grammar.

I've struggled for years trying to cram everything into a school year, that my 8th grade students need to be successful high schoolers. This book is a great way to do just that! I am able to successfully teach my students about grammar, punctuation and word usage in a quick, easy and fun manner. We do the "caught'ya" sentences 3x a week and I am already seeing improvement in my students. I'm finding too that my students are eagerly awaiting the next "caught'ya" to find out about our friend Hapless Harold :)! I highly recommend this to any teacher who is looking to add a fun, effective and worthwhile piece to their daily curriculum! Thank you Ms. Kiester for sharing :)!

This book is a must have for any Language Arts teacher. My students love the story line (very age appropriate) and hate it when I "catch" them! It is also a great resource for anyone needing to brush up on their grammar knowledge. I am a first year teacher and I can honestly say I will use the "Caught'ya" method instead of the drab DOL for the years to come. This is a wonderful tool to get my students excited about grammar!!