Caught'ya! Grammar with a Giggle for Middle School: Giggles in the Middle

by Jane Bell Kiester and Kiester

Book Overview

Jane Bell Kiester, author of the popular Caught'ya Grammar with a Giggle series, has adapted her effective and fun approach to meet the specific learning needs of middle-school students. This resource... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0929895886
• ISBN13: 9780929895888
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Maupin House Publishing
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Giggles in the Middle

I am a bit disappointed because I bought this book for the CD of resources and it was not included. The discription says CD! Can you please provide it CD??

Great Grammar Motivator

Caught'ya Grammar uses an on-going story with lots of grammatical errors to teach grammar. I am using this book for a homeshcool co-op group. They love it and so do the moms. We've turned it into a boys v. girls competion. Once a week, each team corrects one sentence on the board. They get 1 point for each correction they find, but the other team gets 2 points if they "catch" something the team missed. I send them home with one sentence/day for the rest of the week. I send the corrections by email and the students turn their papers in at the end of the week when we meet. I've worked out a system for the teams to earn points for this homework as well. The students really are catching on to some things they didn't know in the beginning.

An alternative to DOL

I'm using this with Honors 7th grade ELA students whose editing skills aren't quite up to where they need to be for our state assessment (with a dreaded editing passage!). The kids love the story & the vocabulary is fantastic. These little activities have given my students countless new ways to insult younger siblings--odious, puerile, martinet--what great words! I love this book, and the accompanying CD is worth its weight in gold! Do not hesitate to buy! Keister provides step-by-step instructions on how to do these & how she grades them. However, rather than having students copying down the incorrect Caught'yas and then fixing them, I made up worksheets (by copying and pasting from the CD) with the incorrect Caught'yas that students then use editing marks to fix--essentially paralleling our state assessment.

love the caughtya's

This is the third "Caught 'Ya" book I've purchased - my kids LOVE this idea, and they are LEARNING!

Great teaching tool

I am a first year teacher and just accepted a job for next year teaching both math and language arts in the 7th grade. I have never taught language arts before and was looking for motivating ideas when I came across this book. I bought it 3 days ago and have read the whole book already. Kiester does a great job of breaking down the activities and explaining exactly how to use "Caught-Ya" in your classroom. The book includes all of the corrections for each "Caught-Ya", as well as some explainations for why the corrections need to be made. The CD which is included allows you to print out the daily sentences and easily put them on transparencies. The CD also includes a great grammer review resource for those new teachers, like myself, who could use a refresher on some of the terminology as well as suggestions for introducing and reviewing the parts of grammer without boring your students with all the terminology. I am excited about using this technique in teaching my class next year. Wish me luck!!

Silly Fun!

I am "testing" this out with my class of gifted fourth-graders, and they love it! They enjoy getting to know a little bit more each day about the kids at Horribly Hard Middle School as well as dream about going to Magic Middle School. What surprised me most was the vocabulary piece. The words are well chosen and well placed. Often I find "challenging" vocabulary to just be wacky- words that we don't hear in our everyday lives. This book, however, keeps the students' interest regarding strong, usable vocabulary. They WANT to look the words up in the dictionary so they have a better understanding of the story, the puns involved, or just to be the one to get to read from the dictionary. We are only on day 16 of the program and I can already see results in the students' own writing. Teacher's Request to Publisher: Please print a version of this in a binder or spiral format! The little paperback book is a bit hard to hold for reference while writing on the board and teaching the kids (but worth it!). I would pay for it again! :)