An illustrated dictionary guide to the sports of backpacking and hiking.

Illustrated backpacking and hiking dictionary for young people

Larson, Randy

Reference

PRENTICE/HALL

A dictionary of terms whose definitions instruct the reader in basic information useful to backpackers.

Illustrated backpacking dictionary for young people

Harvey House

This practical and funny book of reproducible activities uses clear explanations and quirky humor to help students learn about language as they use it.

Hot Fudge Monday: Tasty Ways to Teach Parts of Speech to Students Who Have a Hard Time Swallowing Anything to Do with Grammar

Words, Language & Grammar

Cottonwood Press, Inc.

This book isn't for everyone. It's fairly, well, weird. However, we like weird, and we have found that most students do, too. Short and Sweet is a book of 28 reproducible creative writing activities. The activities help students stretch their imaginations and have fun with writing at the same time. Activities in Short and Sweet include:
<ul>
<li>Endangered Pumpkins;</li>
<li>1-900-PIMPLES; and</li>
<li>Tabloid Times.</li>
</ul>Most activities can be completed in less than a class period, with time left over for sharing. You can stop there or go on to let students complete more finished, polished works. For grades 5–9, but many older students will enjoy the book as well.

Short and Sweet: Quick Creative Writing Activities that Encourage Imagination, Humor and Enthusiasm for Writing

Teen & Young Adult

Education & Reference

Prufrock Press

DownWRITE Funny teaches all kinds of good "stuff" about writing but in an unusual way--by appealing to young people's love of the ridiculous. Using an unusual blend of zany illustrations and "out there" writing assignments, the author leads students through a wide range of lessons and activities that will help them become better writers. Subjects range from the basic (like avoiding sentence fragments and run-ons) to the practical (like using transitions) to the more advanced (like writing in active voice). All activities include wonderfully challenging and funny writing assignments that will stretch students' minds and help them learn important lessons about writing.

DownWRITE Funny: Using Students' Love of the Ridiculous to Build Serious Writing Skills (Grades 7-12)

Children's Books

Prufrock Press, Inc.

Help your students improve their vocabularies with "AbraVocabra," a book that makes teaching vocabulary easy and effective. The book includes 24 lists of 12 words--all words taken from newspapers, magazines, and television. The words are practical words that any reasonably educated person is likely to encounter in real life. "AbraVocabra" includes the following: "tip-off" sentences to help students figure out what the words mean; simple, student-friendly definitions; lots of ideas for getting the students to use, and thus learn, the words; interesting tests that do more than ask students to "regurgitate" definitions; and playing cards and instructions for playing the "Vocabra" game. "AbraVocabra" has everything a teacher needs to help students expand their vocabularies.

AbraVocabra: The Amazingly Sensible Approach to Teaching Vocabulary

Rider, Amy

With short, easy-to-digest activities that have a sense of humor, Commas helps students learn to use commas correctly. At the same time, they also learn a great deal about sentence structure. Commas presents material in an interesting way, with language that makes sense to kids. Best of all, it has students using what they learn. Either way, the review exercises will help reinforce what students learn—and help them perform better on assessment tests as well.

Commas: Teaching Students to Use Commas Correctly, Without Boring Them to Tears (Teaching the Boring Stuff Series)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

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

Hot Fudge Monday: Tasty Ways to Teach Parts of Speech to Students Who Have a Hard Time Swallowing Anything to Do With Grammar (Grades 7-12)

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