Great Grammar Mini Books

Featuring 12 reproducible and interactive mini-books that teach parts of speech, punctuation, capitalization, and more, this unique collection is full of surprises kids love, including pop-up parts, fun flaps, and wheels. Each book is simple to make and teaches a key grammar skill. Complete with activities to use with each reproducible book. Grades 3-6.

Prepositions and verbs spin around in this exuberant celebration of the wonders of grammar. As children explore pages packed with flaps, tabs, wheels, and much more, they will get to know each part of speech. Lively animal characters are their guides as they search a Lost and Found for the possessive case and create strange creatures by mixing adjectives. The games, puzzles, and word-balloon text will captivate even the greatest grammar-phobes. Full color. 16 pp, 7 spreads.

A brilliantly interactive book that makes times tables fun! Lift the flaps and pull the tabs to learn all the times tables up to twelve. Join Noah as he counts the animals into the ark, help an octopus work out how many shoes she has and find the secret times tables hidden in the sweet factory.

Students will love these cool crosswords, codes, mazes, and more that teach punctuation, capitalization, parts of speech, agreement, sentence structure, and all of the fundamentals.

Teaching grammar is easy and entertaining with this special collection of lively "learn-the-rule" poems, companion mini-lessons, and engaging practice sheets! Each reproducible poem foucses on a key topic—parts of speech, capitalization, punctuation, sentence structure, etc.—and is so compelling your students will really master these essential rules once and for all. A great way to reach and teach children of all learning styles! For use with Grades 3-6.

The Way of The Linguist, A language learning odyssey. It is now a cliché that the world is a smaller place. We think nothing of jumping on a plane to travel to another country or continent. The most exotic locations are now destinations for mass tourism. Small business people are dealing across frontiers and language barriers like never before. The Internet brings different languages and cultures to our finger-tips. English, the hybrid language of an island at the western extremity of Europe seems to have an unrivalled position as an international medium of communication. But historically periods of cultural and economic domination have never lasted forever. Do we not lose something by relying on the wide spread use of English rather than discovering other languages and cultures? As citizens of this shrunken world, would we not be better off if we were able to speak a few languages other than our own? The answer is obviously yes. Certainly Steve Kaufmann thinks so, and in his busy life as a diplomat and businessman he managed to learn to speak nine languages fluently and observe first hand some of the dominant cultures of Europe and Asia. Why do not more people do the same? In his book The Way of The Linguist, A language learning odyssey, Steve offers some answers. Steve feels anyone can learn a language if they want to. He points out some of the obstacles that hold people back. Drawing on his adventures in Europe and Asia, as a student and businessman, he describes the rewards that come from knowing languages. He relates his evolution as a language learner, abroad and back in his native Canada and explains the kind of attitude that will enable others to achieve second language fluency. Many people have taken on the challenge of language learning but have been frustrated by their lack of success. This book offers detailed advice on the kind of study practices that will achieve language breakthroughs. Steve has developed a language learning system available online at: www.thelinguist.com.

Kids will flip for these versatile, interactive mini-books that teach grammar and punctuation rules-and help them become better readers and writers. Each humorous mini-book introduces a specific concept: subjects and predicates, run-ons, capitalization, commas, quotation marks, contractions-and demonstrates its use in context. As they read, kids apply what they learn by completing practice items throughout the book. And the "Show What You Know!" page makes a handy assessment tool. Great for independent work, centers, day starters or homework. For use with Grades 2�4.

Watch your students' writing confidence soar as they learn how to use lively verbs colorful adjectives, and specific nouns to enhance their paragraphs, essays, and stories. This classroom-tested resource is jam-packed with mini-lessons and activities on topics like action verbs, detailed description, personification, metaphor, and lots more. Plus, engaging reproducibles, rubrics, bulletin board ideas, and student samples. For use with Grades 4-8.