Alphabet Lists—Getting to Know Your Classmates
Purpose: The aim of this exercise is to get students to introduce themselves and to initiate collaborative working relationships...
Would You Rather...
Purpose: This ice breaker is a great activity for students and I have found that it gives students a chance to get to know more about...
Guess Who?
Purpose of Exercise: The purpose of this exercise is three-fold: to introduce students to each other, to show the variety of experiences...
Learning to Lie—The Importance of Including Details
Purpose: This exercise encourages students to discover and invent convincing details. This is a good exercise to use in the beginning of...
Grammar Remediated
Purpose of Exercise: Teaching grammar rules to your students can be painstakingly boring—not only for them, but for you. Covering this...
Exquisite Corpse: Fun with Syntax
Purpose: This Mad-Libs-style exercise gets students thinking about how language works via an underhanded grammar refresher, and jarring...
Chaos is (Not) Our Friend: Editing for Clarity
Purpose: This handout and exercise is designed get students to consider, and read for, clarity. Use it if careless errors in student...
One-of-a-Kind Apostrophe Test
Purpose: This exercise is designed as a fun class "test" in the use of apostrophes. Use it if you're finding many such errors in student...
Sprinkle in Those Commas and Semicolons
Purpose: This exercise works to explore issues of grammar and punctuation in meaningful ways. The activity focuses on the confusion...
Comparing Digital Genres: Facebook, Twitter, and Text Messaging
Purpose: This activity provides students with a chance to develop and apply genre knowledge to digital genres to see how they are both...