60 Kinesthetic Grammar Activities

<p><strong><span style='font-family: Times New Roman Times serif -webkit-standard; font-size: 14px;'>[60 Kinesthetic Grammar Activities contains] a wide range of practicable activities that in the words of the authors 'connect language in our head to our arms and legs eyes and ears. </span></strong><span style=font-size: 14px;><span style=font-family: Times New RomanTimesserif-webkit-standard;> -<strong style=box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(17 17 17); font-family: montserratsans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;> </strong><strong>Scott Thornbury Author of <em style=box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;>How to Teach Grammar</em> and <em style=box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;>Grammar Uncovered </em>from the Foreword</strong></span></span></p><p style=margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; color: rgb(8 8 8); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: montserratsans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: inherit; orphans: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;><span style=font-size: 14px;><span style=font-family: Times New RomanTimesserif-webkit-standard;>Language is more than words. But too often we teach grammar as a set of boring rules best practiced by filling out worksheets. <em style=box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;>60 Kinesthetic Grammar Activities </em>by Alice Savage bursts this myth with a collection of activities that get students out of their seats and learning in a dynamic and active classroom. The benefits of kinetic language learning activities are many:<span style=text-align: left; color: rgb(0 0 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255 252 234);> </span></span></span></p><ul style=list-style-type: disc;><li><span style=font-size: 14px;><span style=font-family: Times New RomanTimesserif-webkit-standard;><span style=color: rgb(0 0 0);>teach gesture and nonverbal communication</span></span></span></li><li><span style=font-size: 14px;><span style=font-family: Times New RomanTimesserif-webkit-standard;><span style=color: rgb(0 0 0);>activate our embodied mind</span></span></span></li><li><span style=font-size: 14px;><span style=font-family: Times New RomanTimesserif-webkit-standard;><span style=color: rgb(0 0 0);>make grammar memorable</span></span></span></li><li><span style=font-size: 14px;><span style=font-family: Times New RomanTimesserif-webkit-standard;><span style=color: rgb(0 0 0);>change the dynamics of the classroom</span></span></span></li><li><span style=font-size: 14px;><span style=font-family: Times New RomanTimesserif-webkit-standard;><span style=color: rgb(0 0 0);>build community</span></span></span></li><li><span style=font-size: 14px;><span style=font-family: Times New RomanTimesserif-webkit-standard;><span style=color: rgb(0 0 0);>and raise students' moods.</span></span></span></li></ul><p style=box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(8 8 8); font-family: montserratsans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; t