Grammar Rulz!: Daily practice * Social studies themes * Tech-friendly
Grammar Rulz has become the way my students start class every day. It is a fantastic student-led activity for middle-school students because they get to spend the first minutes of class thinking about and looking critically at language. And the students look forward to it as much as I do. This is by far the best daily language program I have ever encountered. I love the fact that I can just project it on the whiteboard, kids can come up and correct it, and then we can instantly click to the next page to check the work. Plus, it comes with built-in periodic assessments. Grammar Rulz rules! --Karla Sutton, seventh-grade language arts/social studies teacherThis book/CD-ROM provides brief daily exercises, organized by four six-week units, asking students to find and correct 12 grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors in short selections on historical periods. The exercises can work just as well using old-fashioned worksheets or chalkboard, or using the resources found on the CD-ROM: preformatted SMART Notebook files, Mimio interactive whiteboard files, PDF files for a multimedia projector, and black line masters to make transparencies for an overhead projector. The CD-ROM also includes a bonus story unit, reproducible express packets with two exercises per page, and a printable sheet of proofreading symbols, as well as printable illustrations of story characters, spelling lists, flashcards, and a video on how to use the exercise with interactive whiteboard software. Ortman is a veteran middle school language arts and social studies teacher. --©2010 Book News Inc. Portland, OR