Hot Fudge Monday

by Randy Larson

Hard as it is to believe, teachers tell us all of the time that their students actually ask to do the funny, wacky activities from Hot Fudge Monday .

This new, expanded edition of our best-selling book offers even more tasty ways to teach parts of speech, including quirky quizzes, extended writing activities, and Internet enrichment activities that reinforce new skills.

Hot Fudge Monday joins the study of words to the process of writing those words into meaningful sentences. The book consists of eight chapters, each one dealing with one part of speech. Students learn about the various parts of speech through short writing activities that are interesting, humorous, and a bit offbeat.

Grades 7-12

Genres: Teaching, Education, Nonfiction

182 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

Reviews

[Lisa Arrigo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic teaching resource- one of my favorites

[Beth · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have been looking for a capable supplementary grammar book to use in my classroom for a while now. I have a couple, but they're really just jokes. From the intro of this book, I knew that this was going to be my supplement when Larson says,

"Hot Fudge Monday proposes to bring humor and a fair amount of job to the writing process, while at the same time teaching students the basics about parts of speech... It makes sense to study parts of speech in the context of the writing process."

Yes! It's about time! I get so irritated with grammar study in isolation. Yes, there are isolated exercises in this book, but for one thing, they're written in a language that's easy for students to understand, and a lot of them can be used with whatever writing assignment you happen to be working on at that moment. I hesitate to give this book 5 stars though because I have yet to use it with students. Once I get back to teaching in September, I might have to come back and bump up (or down) my star rating.

[Erin · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you are a worksheets teacher, this book is for you. I, however, am not, so I wasn't terribly impressed by this one.

[Sebah Al-Ali · Rating 3 out of 5]

كتاب لطيف، يتناول النحو من منظار مختلف عن فكرة "القواعد" و القوانين. يتناول القواعد النحوية الأساسية و يحوي العديد من التمارين.

أظنه مناسبا كمنهج تدريسي مساند للمراحل المبتدئة في اللغة.

[Brittany · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some typos

[Nichole · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has been excellent for teaching my son the parts of speech and then allowing him to practice what he has learned.

[Jen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an excellent teaching resource for English/Language Arts educators.