Grammar Wars: 179 Games and Improvs for Learning Language Arts

Improv is a fun way to learn language arts as well as acting and theatrical skills. The author, a leading California language arts and theatre educator, years ago discovered improv exercises and games that blur the lines between performance and language practice. Since then, he's used improvisation to teach English, and English to teach rehearsal and acting skills. The exercises and games in this improv book can be used to help students learn punctuation, grammar, and parts of speech as well as performance skills. Categories include: Phonics, Vocabulary, Parts of Speech, Punctuation, Sentences, Reading Comprehension, Storytelling, Writing, Acting, and more. The games are divided into three levels of difficulty: easy, moderate, and difficult.

Tom Ready has been teaching theatre and language arts for the past twenty years at Lassen High School, Lassen Community College, Chico State and within the Arts-in-Corrections program at CCC Susanville, and High Desert State Prison. He has worked as a theatre consultant for the California Arts Project, the Northeast California Arts Project and various counties in northern California. He presents workshops, consults and is a conference speaker with educational and state organizations in the areas of team building, restructuring and systems thinking. Tom was awarded a national Christa McAuliffe Fellowship for the 1997-98 school year in the areas of drama, literacy and educational restructuring. Currently, Tom teaches acting and English, and is in charge of organizational development at Lassen High School in Susanville, California.