How to Avoid English Teachers' Pet Peeves is a book that helps writers avoid the annoying little errors that English teachers encounter nearly every day as they read student papers. It addresses the mistakes that make English teachers wince. It is not intended to address major problems, like disorganized writing or writing that does not make sense.  The 50 pet peeves in this practical book were those mentioned most often by 125 English teachers from across the country.  Topics covered include:spelling a lot as one word;writing could of instead of could have; andmixing up your and you're.  The short, sensible explanations and exercises can help anyone learn to avoid common writing errors.

How to Avoid English Teachers' Pet Peeves: Improve Your Writing by Eliminating the Common Errors that English Teachers See Most Often (Cottonwood Press)

Education & Teaching

Miller Thurston, Cheryl

Schools & Teaching

Prufrock Press

This classroom-tested book includes 101 quick writing topics for short assignments or journals and 25 longer assignments complete with pre-writing activities.

When They Think They Have Nothing to Write About: Over 125 Practical Composition Activities Based on the Writing Process

What do you do when nothing seems to work? Turn to Surviving Last Period on Fridays and Other Desperate Situations. This popular book is full of language arts games and activities that are interesting, challenging, and educational―never busy work. Many teachers believe that two of the games alone are worth the price of the book. "Newspaper Scavenger Hunt" and "Holiday Challenge?" are lively learning activities that students love. They are just right for the two or three days right before a vacation. The two kinds of activities included are:activities that you can photocopy for your own personal use and pass out to your students; and activities that need some advance preparation, usually minimal. Surviving Last Period on Fridays and Other Desperate Situations is perfect for junior high/middle school, and most games are suitable or adaptable for high school as well.

Surviving Last Period on Fridays and Other Desperate Situations

Teen & Young Adult

Education & Reference

This refreshing book takes an honest, realistic approach to helping students become better learners. It recognizes that many of today's students don't seem to care about school--or, if they do, it's for all the wrong reasons. This book helps them want to learn. Yet it also appeals to students who are already motivated and positive about school. Attitude is filled with interesting, fun-to-do activities that help students of all abilities do the following: see and understand the value of knowledge and learning; look realistically at the future; recognize and build on their strengths; change bad habits; and learn practical ways to improve school performance. Even if you try nothing else from the book, the chapter on WABs (Whiners And Blamers) is one you shouldn't miss. It includes humorous activites that will help your students take responsibility for their actions. Perfect as a supplemental tool in any classroom, grades 6-9. Most activities suitable for older students as well.

Attitude!: Helping Students Want to Succeed in School and Then Setting Them Up for Success

Capitalization is not likely to leap to the top of any teacher's list of "My Favorite Units to Teach." However, it is possible to teach students to capitalize correctly without having them fall asleep over their text—if you are using a text designed with real kids in mind, and if the text leaves students some room to exercise their own creativity. Capitalization definitely does both. The activities in the book are short and filled with humorous characters and situations that appeal to young people. The activities always involve student writing, as well as practice sentences for students to correct. Give the activities a try. Your students will have some fun with writing as they learn to recognize and apply capitalization rules, one step at a time.

Capitalization: Teaching Correct Capitalization to Kids Who Aren't Crazy About Writing in the First Place (Teaching the Boring Stuff Series)

How to Avoid English Teachers' Pet Peeves is a book that helps writers avoid the annoying little errors that English teachers encounter nearly every day as they read student papers. It addresses the mistakes that make English teachers wince. It is not intended to address major problems, like disorganized writing or writing that does not make sense. The 50 pet peeves in this practical book were those mentioned most often by 125 English teachers from across the country. Topics covered include:<ul>
<li>spelling "a lot" as one word;</li>
<li>writing "could of" instead of "could have" and</li>
<li>mixing up "your" and "you're."</li>
</ul>The short, sensible explanations and exercises can help anyone learn to avoid common writing errors.

Children's Books

With a refreshing outlook and user-friendly style, this guide for writing teachers points out how to keep it simple” when teaching and focus on three basic principles that are not hard to teach or learn.

Common Sense: Tips on the Teaching of Writing from a Writer, Teacher, and Editor

Live from the Classroom! It's Mythology is a book of five read-aloud plays. Students love the adventure and magic in these funny, fast-paced plays based on the following hero myths from around the world:<ul>
<li>Sigurd and the Dragon (Viking);</li>
<li>Atalanta and the Calydonian Boar (Greek);</li>
<li>Glooscap and the Water Monster (Native American);</li>
<li>Gum Lin (Chinese); and</li>
<li>Gilgamesh and the Cedar Forest (Mesopotamian).</li>
</ul>The plays include background material on each culture and are for grades 7–9

Live from the Classroom! It's Mythology

Etzel, Laurie

Designed to be a lifesaver and refresher for teachers, this book contains quick lesson plans for a substitute teacher, ideas for extra credit, and routine-breakers.

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Cottonwood Press, Inc.

Written by a former teacher, these funny and poignant poems are a popular source of material for teachers' meetings, presentations and workshops.

Hide Your Ex-Lax Under the Wheaties: Poems about Schools, Teachers, Kids, and Education

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How to Avoid English Teachers' Pet Peeves: Improve Your Writing by Eliminating the Common Errors that English Teachers See Most Often (Cottonwood Press)

When They Think They Have Nothing to Write About: Over 125 Practical Composition Activities Based on the Writing Process

Surviving Last Period on Fridays and Other Desperate Situations

Attitude!: Helping Students Want to Succeed in School and Then Setting Them Up for Success

Capitalization: Teaching Correct Capitalization to Kids Who Aren't Crazy About Writing in the First Place (Teaching the Boring Stuff Series)

How to Avoid English Teachers' Pet Peeves: Improve Your Writing by Eliminating the Common Errors that English Teachers See Most Often (Cottonwood Press)

Common Sense: Tips on the Teaching of Writing from a Writer, Teacher, and Editor

Live from the Classroom! It's Mythology

The Extra Book: Extra Credit, Enrichment, Creative Thinking

Hide Your Ex-Lax Under the Wheaties: Poems about Schools, Teachers, Kids, and Education