(Ebook) Activities For Fast Finishers - Language Arts Gr 4-8 by Marc Tyler Nobleman ISBN 9780439355315, 0439355311

(Ebook) Activities For Fast Finishers - Language Arts Gr 4-8 by Marc Tyler Nobleman ISBN 9780439355315, 0439355311

About This Book

It happens to teachers all the time. A class is taking a test or working on a
project and a few students finish sooner than the rest. They’re sitting around,
looking bored. What can you give them so they’ll use what’s left of the period
in a valuable and enriching way?

That’s where this book can be of help. It’s full of high-interest activities that
your students are sure to love. Does your class like crossword puzzles? What
about word finds? Jumbles?

If so, they’ll love the activities in this book, though none is a conventional
crossword puzzle, word find, or jumble. In many instances, these exercises
take those activities and add a twist—or just stand them on their heads.

Meanwhile, you’ll like the activities in this book because they reinforce your
curriculum by focusing on grammar and other language skills in fun, new
ways. There are 55 one-page activities in all, designed to be worked on inde-
pendently for an average of ten to fifteen minutes each. We’ve provided a
checklist on the next page so you, and your students, can track which activi-
ties they’ve completed.

This book doesn’t back down from challenging kids. It doesn’t always go with
the familiar word. It doesn’t lose its effect if it makes a student want to look
up a word in a reference source—in fact, all the better. It prefers not to repeat
approaches, but if it does, then it must be for good reason! I hope you and
your students enjoy this book.

— Marc Tyler Nobleman