Ebook: Activities for Fast Finishers: Language Arts

Scholastic Inc., 2002. - 64 p.About This Book
It happens to teachers all the time. A class is taking a test or working on a project and a few students finish sooner than the rest. They’re sitting around, looking bored. What can you give them so they’ll use what’s left of the period in a valuable and enriching way?
That’s where this book can be of help. It’s full of high-interest activities that your students are sure to love. Does your class like crossword puzzles? What about word finds? Jumbles?
If so, they’ll love the activities in this book, though none is a conventional crossword puzzle, word find, or jumble. In many instances, these exercises take those activities and add a twist—or just stand them on their heads. Meanwhile, you’ll like the activities in this book because they reinforce your curriculum by focusing on grammar and other language skills in fun, new ways. There are 55 one-page activities in all, designed to be worked on independently for an average of ten to fifteen minutes each. We’ve provided a checklist on the next page so you, and your students, can track which activities they’ve completed.
This book doesn’t back down from challenging kids. It doesn’t always go with the familiar word. It doesn’t lose its effect if it makes a student want to look up a word in a reference source—in fact, all the better. It prefers not to repeat approaches, but if it does, then it must be for good reason! I hope you and your students enjoy this book.
Marc Tyler Nobleman