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Grammar Game

(submitted by Ayana Wilson)
How it Works
  1. Break the class into two teams (Ayana especially likes girls versus guys)
  2. Hand out a sheet with sentences containing errors that you have taken from the students’ essays.
  3. The teams have a set amount of time to identify as many errors as they can
  4. The team that finds the most errors wins a prize (like candy)
How it Works
  1. Have students identify and revise the examples; the group that has the most (and most effective) revisions wins
  2. As a follow-up, have students identify and correct errors in a draft they are working on
  3. This game could also work for style issues

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