The Creative Teacher is a teachers’ guide filled with student activities in writing, public speaking, researching, dramatizing, and more. This is the second edition of the 2005 publication, A Non-Workbook, Non-Textbook Approach to Teaching Language Arts. The numerous practical approaches make this book a worthy addition to your teaching library. You will be impressed with how simple and fun teaching language arts can be.

In an atmosphere of cooperation, competition and challenge (and a little luck thrown in for fun), your students can reinforce essential phonetic and vocabulary skills without being tediously aware of how much they are learning. Word Match: Synonym, Antonym, Homonym—a mentally and socially active game—creates such an atmosphere and an enthusiastic response from players. (Grades 2 to 5)

“What State is That?” can be played as either a fast-paced game of 10 minutes or a more challenging and complicated 20 minute play based on selected options.

Regardless, “What State is That?” is an exciting play. Similar ready-made games sell off the shelf for triple to quadruple the price of this one. (Grades 2 to 8)

You would never guess from the single title that this is a capitalization and punctuation activity. No one has it, and publishers have refused to publish it because “teachers will find it too easy to copy,” as one put it. It’s physically, socially, and intellectually exciting and just plain English-reinforcement fun. Close the door! (Grades 2 to 8)