SynopsisHard as it is to believe, teachers tell us all the time that their students actually ask to do the funny, wacky activities from Hot Fudge Monday. This new, expanded edition of our best-selling book offers even more tasty ways to teach parts of speech, including quirky quizzes, extended writing activities, and Internet enrichment activities that reinforce new skills.Hot Fudge Monday joins the study of words to the process of writing those words into meaningful sentences. The book consists of eight chapters, each one dealing with one part of speech. Students learn about the various parts of speech through short writing activities that are interesting, humorous and a bit offbeat. Grades 7-12, Hard as it is to believe, teachers tell us all of the time that their students actually ask to do the funny, wacky activities from Hot Fudge Monday . This new, expanded edition of our best-selling book offers even more tasty ways to teach parts of speech, including quirky quizzes, extended writing activities, and Internet enrichment activities that reinforce new skills. Hot Fudge Monday joins the study of words to the process of writing those words into meaningful sentences. The book consists of eight chapters, each one dealing with one part of speech. Students learn about the various parts of speech through short writing activities that are interesting, humorous, and a bit offbeat. Grades 7-12, 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., Hard as it is to believe, teachers tell us all the time that their students actually ask to do the funny, wacky activities from Hot Fudge Monday. This new, expanded edition of our best-selling book offers even more tasty ways to teach parts of speech, including quirky quizzes, extended writing activities, and Internet enrichment activities that reinforce new skills. Hot Fudge Monday joins the study of words to the process of writing those words into meaningful sentences. The book consists of eight chapters, each one dealing with one part of speech. Students learn about the various parts of speech through short writing activities that are interesting, humorous and a bit offbeat. Grades 7-12
Illustrated byLarson, Judith Ann