Noun Hounds and Other Great Grammar Games (Grades 3-6) [Paperback]

Lorraine Hopping Egan (Author), Lorraine Jean Hopping (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2001

20 Fun and Easy Reproducible Games That Help Every Kid Grasp the Essential Rules of Grammar
Grammar Made Fun!
Fun, cooperative games help reinforce what students know about the parts of speech, sentence structure, spelling, and more!

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About the Author

Lorraine Hopping Egan is a prolific education writer and game inventor, whose books for Scholastic include 25 Super Cool Math Board Games and Great American History Games.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic (February 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0439051746
• ISBN-13: 978-0439051743
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,023,817 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lorraine Jean Hopping grew up in a small town in Michigan, went to a small college in Michigan (Kalamazoo College), and then began to dream big. At the age of 21, she moved to New York City to launch a career in publishing as a writer and editor.

Her mantra is "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten." In other words, Lorraine thrives on the new, the different, the unknowns in life.

A combination of curiosity and fear of boredom have led her into the worlds of magazines, books, radio, software, board games, toys, websites, and . . . what next? She has enthusiastically tackled an ever-expanding range of topics with special passions for languages, international cultures, science, math, and technology.

Today, Lorraine still dreams big as she creates out of a cozy home office in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Learn more about her and her game development company--Hopping Fun Creations--at lorrainejeanhopping.com.

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is *so* useful!, September 15, 2001

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This review is from: Noun Hounds and Other Great Grammar Games (Grades 3-6) (Paperback)

I was surprised and relieved after buying Noun Hounds online to see that the grammar games were not too long or too complicated. My favorite is one of the simplest ones--a variation of the game Buzz--you say buzz in place of nouns (or adjectives, or other parts of speech) instead of in place of certain numbers. We use it as a warm-up for every grammar lesson. It takes less than 5 minutes for the students to thoroughly learn a list of words. There are also board games, puzzles, mazes--even a really fun charades-like game about adverbs for kinesthetic learners. The class hams really ham it up!