FIRE-STARTERS

Fire-Starters

• Fire-Starter: Making grammar practice personal

  Peggy Hart, a teacher from Massachusetts, writes in to propose a homework assignment with a social element, in order to draw students into identifying sentence fragments and run-on sentences. “We are always asking students to self-edit their work for spelling, punctuation, run-on sentences, and the like,” she writes. But instead of having them practice on [...]

• Fire-Starter: Chances of getting it right

  Here’s a True-False test where the kids don’t see the questions! Starts them thinking about probability (and tests).