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Summary: a great "handbook" for teaching language arts
Review: As a second-year 7th language arts teacher, I found this book to be an invaluable teaching tool! Following Kiester's proofreading sentence strategies, my students' test scores rose dramatically. The author also gives fantastic tips on enhancing reading and writing instruction, providing effective exercieses and ideas that my students thorougly enjoyed. I have purchased many professional books / journals seeking to improve my teaching and students' attitudes towards grammar. If only these two books could have been my first purchases, then maybe I wouldn't have a dusty bookshelf full of rarely used teaching ideas. The prequel to this book, called Grammar With a Giggle is also a great buy. Both of these books contain strategies that I will continue to implement and expand upon!
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Summary: a great "handbook" for teaching language arts
Review: As a second-year 7th language arts teacher, I found this book to be an invaluable teaching tool! Following Kiester's proofreading sentence strategies, my students' test scores rose dramatically. The author also gives fantastic tips on enhancing reading and writing instruction, providing effective exercieses and ideas that my students thorougly enjoyed. I have purchased many professional books / journals seeking to improve my teaching and students' attitudes towards grammar. If only these two books could have been my first purchases, then maybe I wouldn't have a dusty bookshelf full of rarely used teaching ideas. The prequel to this book, called Grammar With a Giggle is also a great buy. Both of these books contain strategies that I will continue to implement and expand upon!
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Summary: less useful than the first
Review: i bought the two books together. the first is an absolute must. the second seems less applicable to me as a high school classroom teacher. a lot of it is directed at parents, tutors and homeschoolers -- if you fall into those categories, this book IS a must for you. i didn't get so much out of it. it does have more pre-fab stories, though. if you're not yet comfortable writing your own, you might want this.
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Summary: less useful than the first
Review: i bought the two books together. the first is an absolute must. the second seems less applicable to me as a high school classroom teacher. a lot of it is directed at parents, tutors and homeschoolers -- if you fall into those categories, this book IS a must for you. i didn't get so much out of it. it does have more pre-fab stories, though. if you're not yet comfortable writing your own, you might want this.
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Summary: The most exciting tool for teaching English that I have used
Review: I have taught English for more than 20 years, and have never had students look forward to the lessons taught in the Caught'ya style. It is excellent for developing proofreading skills, parts of speech, vocabulary development, and improved my students standardized test scores. It is fun for both teacher and student
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Summary: Excellent for all students
Review: I used Caught Ya for the first time last year with high schools (up to age nineteen) students who read and write between a third and sixth grade level. This program is excellent and works with all students. It is a strategy that makes even the most challenged students become successful and smart! It is fun and the kids truly enjoyed the challenge of "fixing" the sentence each day. Thanks for making grammar and vocabulary fun to teach! Buy this book. May I also highly recommend the author's book "Blowing Away the State Writing Assessments". We incorporated it into our curriculum this year and highly recommend her four steps to increasing scores. I only wish the author was part of my faculty.
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Summary: Caught'Ya Again!: More Grammar With a Giggle
Review: Mrs. Kiester has done it again! Before I found Jane Bell Kiester's books, I didn't have a clear path to follow when teaching writing. The Caught'Ya books solve the problem of teaching your students grammar and mechanics. Each day students are given a sentence to correct that adds to a story line appropriate for their age group. Students become engaged in the learning process throughout the story and often can't wait to see what happens next. Students become intimately involved in the story as they become part of the story when the teacher inserts their name as a character in the story. Although Caught'Ya's are integral to the teaching of grammar and mechanics, the greatest bonus I found in using these wonderful sentences was the fact that students naturally and easily learn to paragraph appropriately. This is a difficult task to teach and for students to understand. Caught'Ya's solve this for teachers and students alike. If you can't purchase any other resource this year, you must purchase one of Jane Bell Kiester's Caught'Ya books! Your students will learn to write in a way that will improve all test scores! Do not hesitate! This is the perfect purchase.
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Summary: Caught'Ya Again!: More Grammar With a Giggle
Review: Mrs. Kiester has done it again! Before I found Jane Bell Kiester's books, I didn't have a clear path to follow when teaching writing. The Caught'Ya books solve the problem of teaching your students grammar and mechanics. Each day students are given a sentence to correct that adds to a story line appropriate for their age group. Students become engaged in the learning process throughout the story and often can't wait to see what happens next. Students become intimately involved in the story as they become part of the story when the teacher inserts their name as a character in the story. Although Caught'Ya's are integral to the teaching of grammar and mechanics, the greatest bonus I found in using these wonderful sentences was the fact that students naturally and easily learn to paragraph appropriately. This is a difficult task to teach and for students to understand. Caught'Ya's solve this for teachers and students alike. If you can't purchase any other resource this year, you must purchase one of Jane Bell Kiester's Caught'Ya books! Your students will learn to write in a way that will improve all test scores! Do not hesitate! This is the perfect purchase.
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