Hot Fudge Monday: Tasty Ways to Teach Parts of Speech to Students Who Have a Hard Time Swallowing Anything to Do with Grammar (Spiral-bound)

by Randy Larson (Author)
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Product Description

Since its initial publication in 1993, this entertaining grammar book has helped thousands of middle school teachers teach even the most reluctant learners using lessons that de-emphasize rote learning and treat the parts of speech as building blocks for crazy writing assignments. Prompts include using at least 10 prepositional phrases from a list to write a scene from the new vegetable horror novel Squash Cemetery, and using lively verbs to write the monologue of a soda can telling his miserable life story to a psychologist. This new edition offers quirky quizzes to check student progress, even more writing ideas, and a guide to Internet enrichment activities, including "Stupid Roadside Attractions," in which students research goofy tourist traps in America and use vivid adjectives to describe the six that they think are the stupidest.

About the Author

Randy Larson is an English teacher and the author of many books for teachers, including DownWRITE Funny and Short and Sweet. He lives in Gillette, Wyoming.

 

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 180 pages
• Publisher: Cottonwood Press, Inc.; 3rd edition (April 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1877673749
• ISBN-13: 978-1877673740
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 8.7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #5,892 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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45 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More Grammar Please!, March 12, 2000

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This review is from: Hot Fudge Monday: Tasty Ways to Teach Parts of Speech to Students Who Have a Hard Time Swallowing Anything to Do with Grammar (Spiral-bound)

What a great book for teaching grammar. Very anectodal ways to teach grammar to even 8th graders. The book is nicely organized and instructions are clear. The author used a fair amount of creativity to feed grammar to students with a spoonful of sugar! Definitely worth having in a library.

40 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a grammar book that teachers and students actually like, March 9, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Hot Fudge Monday: Tasty Ways to Teach Parts of Speech to Students Who Have a Hard Time Swallowing Anything to Do with Grammar (Spiral-bound)

This book is definitely not boring, even if it is about grammar. It doesn't just teach about more effective verbs, students learn how to use Five Hundred Horsepower verbs. It teaches independent clauses by having students write about people picking their noses -- just the kind of gross stuff kids like. This book is a must for anyone stuck with teaching the parts of speech.

53 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The perfect compromise, September 26, 2003

By	T. Arnold (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Hot Fudge Monday: Tasty Ways to Teach Parts of Speech to Students Who Have a Hard Time Swallowing Anything to Do with Grammar (Spiral-bound)

If you are a teacher struggling to make grammar interesting and relevant to your students, while also trying to follow an established curriculum (and not work yourself to death in the process) do not hesitate to buy this book! I am a first-year teacher struggling to find a compromise between how I have to teach and how I know I should be teaching--and this book is it! While it appears to be simply a book full of grammar worksheets ('yippie' shouts the administration), it really is a back door to teaching grammar in the context of writing ('woo hoo' exclaims the English teacher). Each exercise is intended to teach concrete grammar rules and skills as well as to apply these new skills to the writing process. It is a collection of the excellent, creative kinds of activities I would come up with myself--if only I had the time!