Hooked on English!: Ready-To-Use Activities for the English Curriculum, Grades 7-12

by Jack Umstatter

Book Overview

This unique and practical resource gives junior and senior high school English teachers 186 stimulating activities that can be used to review and reinforce concepts across the English curriculum in a challenging and entertaining way. The activities have been tested with students of varying abilities and include a variety of crossword puzzles, word jumbles, word searches, magic squares, crypto-quotes, word scrambles, matching columns, fill-ins, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787965847
• ISBN13: 9780787965846
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.3" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

A Must Have for English Teachers

I discovered Hooked on English while searching for Grammar Grabbers (a book I'd seen several coworkers using). I was hoping for something a bit more "hearty" than the contents of the latter. I had used materials from it and found them often wrong or weak in various areas. Hooked on English has been a successful alternative. My students love the crossword puzzels for symbolism and literary elements. I heard many exclamations from my juniors "this is fun!" The exercises for writing ideas and organization are useful and kept my students engaged - and believe me, I have a tough crowd to please! I recommend this for warm-up practice and reviewing especially at the high school level.

It made me "Hooked on English!"

I liked this book so much that when I found out I was not going to be an English teacher anymore and was going to teach math, I still kept the book because it looked like fun to me! The pages are easy to understand and they have a lot of information in fun ways of learning. I think that students would really enjoy this format for learning English.

Hooked on English

The book has a very easy and helpfull activities for ESL but for EFL the activites are may be to easy. We finish the book in less time we expected.

English teaching made easier!

Have you ever needed an extra exercise to help reinforce that grammar concept that you're not quite sure the students got? How about something interesting to introduce a new unit? This book really does have it all. I was quite impressed with the variety of exercises, as well as levels. The students enjoy doing the exercises because there is usually some kind of puzzle to figure out once they have learned the task. The writing exercises really stretch their creativity. As an English teacher, this is an invaluable book.