Language Is Served: Games, Writing Prompts, and Other Language Arts Activities on the Yummy Topic of Food (Paperback)
Language Is Served includes word games, writing prompts, lessons, and writing activities that involve research, creativity, and application of skills studied in class. Activities include Cheesy Rhymes, Appetizing Antonyms, Sizzling Synonyms, Dishing up the Internet, You Are How You Eat, Delicious and Disgusting, and Overstuffed Sentences. The author uses a sense of humor to teach serious writing skills and to engage students in playing with words and language-an important step in learning to use our language skillfully.
Cheryl Miller Thurston is the president, founder and editor of Cottonwood Press, Inc., which she started in 1986 with a $2000 loan from a friend. Before that she was an English teacher for 13 years, grades seven through university level.