All About Homophones

Those of you who read my blog may remember my love affair with All About Spelling. Well, they have created another obsession for me called All About Homophones. I received the e-book to review and I must confess that I was disappointed to not get the paper book. But my disappointment was quickly gone as soon as I opened the file. This book is full of awesome tools, ideas, worksheets, games and more!

I love the ideas they have for graphic organizers that your students can build their own collections of homophones. Also they have various worksheets and crosswords broke out by grade levels. This is where the e-book becomes extra handy. I can print out as many as I need for each kid and they are perfect (this is versus a photocopy out of the book). There are also various card games that you can just print onto cardstock. Then if the cards get bent or otherwise destroyed just print them again.

I love homophones because it really helps the kids to learn how to use context and logic in order to decipher the proper meaning of the word. So I am thrilled to say that I love this resource for teaching homophones from kids in kindergarten all the way to 8th grade!

Making Grammar Fun!

So I was putting around the library one day just looking for some good books to read to the kids, not looking for any specific subject but melding learning and fun. Man did I find a jackpot! I found the Magic of Language books. These are books that look at one aspect of grammar and expolres it fully. So far we have read Nouns, Interjections, Verbs, Pronouns, and Punctuation. They are colorful, entertaining and very interactive. They ask questions and have answers in the back in case your kids are reading them alone. I will be checking out the rest of the series as soon as we get a chance!

Frugal Homeschooler: Grammar Exercises

Thanks to Kate over at ITTIB for finding this great site for grammar exercises. It seems to have everything from punctuation to using like and as. You can even check you answers as you go. It would be great for adults and kids. In addition to the exercises, How to Improve Your Writing seems to have a lot of great grammar and writing information.