This book is packed with a wide variety of games that not only keep students engaged, but are also educational and instructional. The activities help to sharpen basic and necessary skills, such as reading, writing, and thinking. This book is not only a must-have extra for Language Arts teachers, but the games and activities contained within it are good and productive time-fillers for any teacher.

The 90 activities in this book will stimulate students and help them to become more confident and proficient writers. Within these pages students can review parts of speech, utilize effective brainstorming and proofreading techniques, and become more acquainted with the various types of writings, including the descriptive, persuasive, classification, and definition essays. All of this is done in a creative and useful way. Middle school and high school students are the intended audience. The author effectively reaches both levels. A good buy!!

This book contains a gold mine of word games. However, many of the games were to complicated for my ninth graders. I enjoyed working them though!

As a secondary-level English Language, I find this book to be a wonderful resource for teachers. It contains a potpourri of word games that make language learning interesting and fun. Activities are varied and include riddles, crossword puzzles, mazes, word constructions etc. The book is divided into sections (including one on Literature) focusing on different aspects of the curriculum, and teachers will easily find an activity to suit their own needs and lesson plans, as well as cater to the abilities and standards of their students. An added advantage is that the book is printed in a big spiral-format that allows materials to be easily photocopied. This book will be a valuable and handy tool to the busy teacher, whether s/he is looking for materials to use as a filler in class, or to reinforce concepts taught.

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.

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.