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Titles in the Jossey-Bass Education

5-Minute FUNdamentals Series

THE MATH TEACHERS PROBLEM-A-DAY, GRADES 4-8

Over 180 Reproducible Pages of Quick Skill Builders

Judith A. Muschla, Gary Robert Muschla ISBN 978-0-7879-9764-9

THE READING TEACHERS WORD-A-DAY

180 Ready-to-Use Lessons to Expand Vocabulary, Teach Roots, and Prepare for Standardized Tests

Edward B. Fry, Ph.D. ISBN 978-0-7879-9695-6

THE WRITING TEACHERS LESSON-A-DAY

180 Reproducible Prompts and Quick-Writes for the Secondary Classroom

Mary Ellen Ledbetter ISBN 978-0-470-46132-7

THE SPELLING TEACHERS LESSON-A-DAY

180 Reproducible Activities to Teach Spelling, Phonics, and Vocabulary

Edward B. Fry, Ph.D. ISBN 978-0-470-42980-8

THE GRAMMAR TEACHERS ACTIVITY-A-DAY, GRADES 5-12

Over 180 Ready-to-Use Lessons to Teach Grammar and Usage

Jack Umstatter ISBN 978-0-470-54315-3

THE ALGEBRA TEACHERS ACTIVITY-A-DAY, GRADES 5-12

Over 180 Quick Challenges for Developing Math and Problem-Solving Skills

Frances McBroom Thompson ISBN 978-0-470-50517-5

JOSSEY-BASS TEACHER

Jossey-Bass Teacher provides educators with practical knowledge and tools to create a positive and lifelong impact on student learning. We offer classroom-tested and research-based teaching resources for a variety of grade levels and subject areas. Whether you are an aspiring, new, or veteran teacher, we want to help you make every teaching day your best.

From ready-to-use classroom activities to the latest teaching framework, our value-packed books provide insightful, practical, and comprehensive materials on the topics that matter most to K-12 teachers. We hope to become your trusted source for the best ideas from the most experienced and respected experts in the field.

DEDICATION

To my teacher, colleague, and friend, Ira Finkel. I sat in your classroom and learned so much from your words and dedication to your profession. Then I learned even more about teaching from you as your Dowling College colleague. You were the bestthe teacher that all students should have at least once in their lives, the fellow educator that we all truly admired. Thanks for your inspiration...

THE AUTHOR

Jack Umstatter taught English on both the middle school and senior high school levels for thirty-five years. He also taught at Dowling College and Suffolk County Community College (New York). In 2006, he retired from the Cold Spring Harbor School District where he had co-chaired the English department.

Mr. Umstatter graduated from Manhattan College with a B.A. in English and completed his M.A. degree in English at Stony Brook University. He earned his educational administration degree at Long Island University.

Jack has been selected Teacher of the Year several times in his school district, was elected to Whos Who Among Americas Teachers, and has also appeared in Contemporary Authors. A contributing writer for the Biography Channel, he now conducts teacher training workshops and performs demonstration lessons in classrooms across the country.

Mr. Umstatters publications include Hooked on Literature (1994), 201 Ready-to-Use Word Games for the English Classroom (1994), Brain Games! (1996), Hooked On English! (1997), the six-volume Writing Skills Curriculum Library (1999), Grammar Grabbers! (2000), English Brainstormers! (2002), Words, Words, Words (2003), Readers at Risk (2005), and Got Grammar? (2007), all published by Jossey-Bass/Wiley.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to thank the folks at Jossey-Bass, especially vice-president and publisher, Paul Foster, and editor, Margie McAneny, for their continued support, confidence, and guidance. Their assistance and friendship over the years has been invaluable.

I applaud and thank Diane Turso, my proofreader, for her meticulous work and careful review of this and other books that I have written.

Thanks to all my students, past and present, for making my teaching experiences both memorable and fulfilling.

As always, thanks to my wife, Chris, and my two daughters, Maureen and Kate, for their perpetual love and inspiration that mean so much.

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Contrary to what some out there are touting, grammar is not a lost artnor should it be! Like the planet and the people who live on it, the English language is constantly evolving and changing. Some argue that this is for the better; some feel that it is not so healthy a change. Yet, the grammatical structure of the English language remains pretty much the same and has certainly not lost its importance. In fact, the constructors of local, state, national, college entrance exams, including the SAT Reasoning Test, the ACT, and even the Graduate Record Exam (used for graduate school admissions), have placed more emphasis on grammar and its components, as evidenced by the questions and tasks currently found on these highly regarded assessments.

Acknowledging the importance of grammar, usage, and mechanics on not only a students academic profile, but also, and perhaps more significantly, on a students ability to use language to communicate effectively and intelligently, The Grammar Teachers Activity-a-Day: 180 Ready-to-Use Lessons to Teach Grammar and Usage was created to assist students to learn, exercise, and appreciate the many intriguing aspects of the English language. Though each of the 180 reproducible, ready-to-use lessons and activities that cover a wide range of grammatical components and more can be done within a short window of time, the long-lasting effects of these minutes will reap benefits for all of your students. These learners will speak more cogently, listen more astutely, and write more powerfully. Grammar will no longer be a foe, a force to be feared; instead, it will be an ally, a powerful friend who furnishes comfort and inspires confidence.

HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

The Grammar Teachers Activity-a-Day: 180 Ready-to-Use Lessons to Teach Grammar and Usage is divided into four sections of reproducible grammar, usage, and mechanics pages.

The first section, Grammar, features 26 lessons and activities that cover the eight parts of speech in detail.

Usage, the second section, includes 114 lessons and activities. Here students will study important topics including sentence parts, phrases, clauses, sentence design and purpose, agreement, cases, and confusing and sound-alike words.

The 30 lessons and activities in the last major section, Mechanics, focus on punctuation, capitalization, and spelling, three essential elements of effective writing.

Show What You Know, the short, final section, serves as a check on what the students have studied. These 10 activities allow students to display their knowledge of all the topics covered within the books pages.

Each of the 180 reproducible lessons and activities will take up only a few minutes of time in the already crowded curriculum that you and your students will cover during the year. If the pages inspire greater interest and discussion, go with it, for that is the desired teachable moment.

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