Grammar Wars: 179 Games and Improvs for Learning Language Arts

By Tom Ready

Book Overview

Improv is a fun way to learn language arts as well as acting and theatrical skills. The author, a leading California language arts and theatre educator, years ago discovered improv exercises and games that blur the lines between performance and language practice. Since then, he's used improvisation to teach English, and English to teach rehearsal and acting skills. The exercises and games in this improv book can be used to help students learn punctuation, grammar, and parts of speech as well as performance skills. Categories include: Phonics, Vocabulary, Parts of Speech, Punctuation, Sentences, Reading Comprehension, Storytelling, Writing, Acting, and more. The games are divided into three levels of difficulty: easy, moderate, and difficult.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566080630
• ISBN13: 9781566080637
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Meriwether Publishing
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

A book of games and activities that will entertain children as well as educate them

In today's world of text communication and the internet, good grammar is a sign of education and intelligence. "Grammar Wars: 179 Games and Improvs for Learning Language Arts" is a book of games and activities that will entertain children as well as educate them about the rules and eccentricities of grammar, alongside other essential language arts skills. "Grammar Wars: 179 and Improvs for Learning Language Arts" is highly recommended for community library education collections and educators everywhere.

I love to use grammar in sentences!!!!!!!!!!!

Tom Ready helped my a lot. He showed me how to use grammar in sentences and let me tell you it is FUN!!! Let me give you some exciting sentences that you use grammar in. GRAMMAR is fun. You can have fun with GRAMMAR. You will have fun with GRAMMAR. You can't have fun without GRAMMAR. You can't do anything that is more fun than GRAMMAR. GRAMMAR is the only thing to do with your time. You can't live without GRAMMAR. You will die if you don't use GRAMMAR in every part of your life. See, this book showed me everything I need in life and that is grammar. I don't think I could live if I didn't have this book. Now there is another Grammar Wars book and let me tell it is even better. Well I want to thank Tom Ready for giving me something to live for and die for.........PRAISE GRAMMAR!!!!!!!!!!!

The Student

I have been a student of Mr. Tom Ready for the last three and a half years now and I think that he has an amazing talent and skill for teaching students in English and Drama. I've learned many things from him and really enjoy his classes. He has the ability to bring out the best in many unlikely students. This book, which contains many games written by some of his students, is an absolute geniously entertaining way to learn the parts of speech and the English language. Our class is presently traveling to teach Grammar Wars and it has been completely successful. I'd like to thank Mr. Ready for his time and effort in teaching all of us students in his classes at Lassen High School.

Al graet and wondrful

I belive this bok did lot=s for me and I recomend it to everyune.I cn now achive a job at brger king,"thnk u graamer warz".

The most wonderous thing in the world

Today I am going to review this book about its own awe in glory. No book existed that could come close to its power and influence. Until reading these Uphorik words my life was but a desolate waste land of iltersy. I would recommend it to anyone who wishes to enjoy a life of gladness because they can speek gooder. PS God hates (...)