60 Kinesthetic Grammar Activities
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Language is more than words. But too often, we teach grammar as a set of boring rules, best practiced by filling out worksheets. 60 Kinesthetic Grammar Activities by Alice Savage and Colin Ward bursts this myth with a collection of activities that get students out of their seats and learning in a dynamic and active classroom. The benefits of kinetic language learning activities are many:
teach gesture and nonverbal communication
activate our embodied mind
make grammar memorable
change the dynamics of the classroom
build community
and raise students’ moods.
This book contains everything you need to practice 60 common grammar points in a dynamic and active way! All the activities inside are all low-prep or no-prep, easy to adapt to your classroom, and flexible enough to work with a variety of target language features.
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Alice Savage has a Master of Arts in Teaching from the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont. She is currently a professor of ESOL at Lone Star College System, in Houston, Texas where she also does some teacher-training. She is grateful for the opportunity to spend time with young people who are exploring their own decisions about career and life. Alice has books published by Alphabet Publishing, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Wayzgoose Press.
Colin Ward received his M.A. in TESOL from the University of London as a UK Fulbright Scholar. Today, he is Department Chair and Professor of ESOL at Lone Star College-North Harris in Houston, Texas, USA. He has been teaching ESOL at the community-college level since 2002 and presented at numerous state, national, and international conferences, focusing on topics such as lexical grammar, content-based instruction, and the integration of reading and writing. In his spare time, Colin enjoys spending time with his two daughters, cooking new foods, traveling internationally, and cycling the bayous of Houston.
