Stimulating, reproducible word games make it fun for students in grades 7-12 to learn and review word origins, vocabulary, spelling, literary devices, authors and their works, and other language skills.
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For secondary English teachers, here is an exciting collection of over 200 stimulating reproducible word games that make it fun for students in grades 7-12 to learn and review word origins, vocabulary, spelling, literary devices, and other language skills!
For easy use, all of these ready-to-use word games are organized into the following seven sections, each focusing on a different area of the curriculum:
The Root and Limbs of Our Language: Boost students' word curiosity through 26 activities covering Latin and Greek roots and prefixes, as well as contributions of other languages of English.
For easy use, all of these ready-to-use word games are organized into the following seven sections, each focusing on a different area of the curriculum:
The Root and Limbs of Our Language: Boost students' word curiosity through 26 activities covering Latin and Greek roots and prefixes, as well as contributions of other languages of English.
The Tools of Communication: Challenge your students with 29 activities on figures of speech, proverbs, expressions, and words used in everyday communication.
The World Around You: Here are 37 high-interest activities featuring celebrities, sports, science, math, music, food, historical figures, and more.
The Land of Literature: Introduce and review writers, books, poems, and magazines from contemporary and historical eras through your choice of 20 activities.
Making Language Work for You: Add these 29 activities to your grammar and usage lessons to challenge and delight students on both ends of the spectrum. This section includes parts of speech, agreement, often-confused words, and more.
Taking the Tests by the Horns: The 22 activities here help students improve their scores on standardized high school and college admissions tests.
Just Plain Fun: This section contains a potpourri of 38 creative activities that have been favorites with students in the author's classes.
The activities in each section include a variety of formats-riddles, concealed quotations, unscrambling, mazes, crossword puzzles, cryptoquotes, word constructions, and more. Complete answer keys are included at the end of the book.
You'll find these activities ideal when you want to spark interest in a new topic, award extra credit, supply substitute teacher plans, or begin or end class with something different. What's more, you'll give your students an exciting new awareness of what they can do with words and what words can do for them!
About the Author
Jack Umstatter, a master English teacher with over 25 years' experience, is a multiple winner of the Teacher of the year award. He currently teaches in Cold Spring Harbor, New York and Oakdale, New York. He is the author of numerous teacher resources such as Brain Games and Hooked on English! Both published by the Center for Applied research in Education. Mr. Umstatter lives in Islip, NY.
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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
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A Handy & Excellent Resource,
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This review is from: 201 Ready-to-Use Word Games for the English Classroom (J-B Ed: Ready-to-Use Activities) (Paperback)
As a secondary-level English Language, I find this book to be a wonderful resource for teachers. It contains a potpourri of word games that make language learning interesting and fun. Activities are varied and include riddles, crossword puzzles, mazes, word constructions etc. The book is divided into sections (including one on Literature) focusing on different aspects of the curriculum, and teachers will easily find an activity to suit their own needs and lesson plans, as well as cater to the abilities and standards of their students. An added advantage is that the book is printed in a big spiral-format that allows materials to be easily photocopied. This book will be a valuable and handy tool to the busy teacher, whether s/he is looking for materials to use as a filler in class, or to reinforce concepts taught.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Great Collection of Word Games,
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This review is from: 201 Ready-to-Use Word Games for the English Classroom (J-B Ed: Ready-to-Use Activities) (Paperback)
This book contains a gold mine of word games. However, many of the games were to complicated for my ninth graders. I enjoyed working them though!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent English Games,
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This review is from: 201 Ready-to-Use Word Games for the English Classroom (J-B Ed: Ready-to-Use Activities) (Paperback)
This is a very handy book for students in grades 9 - 12. My regular ed. and night school kids enjoyed the puzzles and games. A word of caution is needed, however - check for typos in each game before distributing to students because the proofreader was not very adept!
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