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Classroom Community Builders is a collection of flexible community-building exercises for the classroom. Community-building classroom exercises directly affect student success, especially when combined with class content. The over 70 activities in this book help your students succeed while teaching teamwork skills and increasing their understanding.
Publisher: Alphabet Publishing
Skills: Writing, Editing, Book Design, Cover Design.
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On the Board is an ebook containing 200 simple and successful do-now activities. Each do-now involves writing a proverb, quotation, brain-teaser, or joke on the board and setting students to interpret, analyze, and solve the do-now. One of the top most downloaded books on Smashwords in the categories of education and brainteasers.
Publisher: Alphabet Publishing
Skills: Converting and Publishing e-book. Book Design.
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Thirty One Mysteries to Solve Clue by Clue is a collection of short mysteries that encourage students to talk, while also practicing critical thinking skills and close reading. Each mystery consists of a situation and 4-10 photocopiable cards.
Students read or listen to a puzzle or mystery to solve. Then they are given the first clue card. They start discussing it, sharing theories and defending their ideas. They get a second clue card. More discussion and thinking. Finally, after they have all the clues, they can try to solve the mystery!
Publisher: ProLingua
Skills: Authoring, revising, working with a publisher’s requirements.
As grammar editor, I was asked by Macmillan to review the grammar lessons and exercises of the second edition of Mastermind, levels 1 and 2.
My task was to go through every grammar lesson and exercise in the Student Books and Work Books to check for clarity of explanations and use of sample texts to illustrate the grammar point. I also looked for consistency between explanations and exercises and from exercise to exercise.
Publisher: Macmillan
Skills: copy-editing, suggesting content-revisions, editing between Student Book and Workbook
New Ways in Teaching With Humor from TESOL Press explores the whole gamut of possibilities for using humor in English language teaching. These lessons use humor to enhance the English learning experience and provide English language learners with the linguistic and cultural knowledge they need to become more proficient users of the language.
I contributed an activity on using humor to draw attention to mistakes in using the passive tense.
