Making Grammar Interactive... Classroom or Hallway Hunts Giveaway!

Workbook pages, schmerkbook pages.

That's how I feel anyway.  I know, I know... they are a necessary evil and we do maybe one per week.  Usually when I introduce a grammar skill, we complete a workbook page.  But, as part of the grammar practice, I get my kids up and moving.

We play Back-to-Back, use my classroom carpet, and usually do a game each week as part of one of our mini-lessons.

One of my favorite ways to make grammar interactive is with classroom or hallway hunts.

It is not uncommon in my school building to see sentences, words, or pictures randomly taped on the walls throughout the hallways.  Both the 3rd and 4th grade ELA teachers use hallway hunts often as a way for kids to show they know our grammar skills by doing something other than sitting and completing a workbook page.

Instead, we type out what we want our kiddos doing on cards, number them, and hang them up in the school.  Kids get a recording sheet and walk through the halls, searching for, and completing the cards.  They L-O-V-E it and I love it too!  It's fun and achieves the same goal as a workbook page, but the kids are moving and having a good time.

When we do hallway hunts, they are whole class activities.  But I also use classroom hunts.  A lot.  Instead of hanging the cards in the hallway and going out as a group, I hang cards in the classroom and assign my students to complete the hunt as part of their independent word work for the week.

While I meet with small groups, students have to budget in time to complete the hunt.  I love when I'm working in my groups, seeing kids with clipboards and recording sheets, reading, thinking, and writing as they travel around the classroom!

I have several classroom or hallway hunts in my TpT store and would love to give you the chance to win your choice of two of them... there are {in order of the pics below!} ABC order, pronouns, verbs, plural nouns, abstract nouns, contractions with not, linking verbs, contractions with pronouns and verbs, possessive pronouns, singular and plural nouns, and the last picture is for a freebie hunt for singular and plural nouns!  I've linked up each picture below so you can check them out and decide which two you'd like if you win!  :)  Several of them are part of larger grammar packs with more than just the hallway hunt activity... so the two winners will get the whole pack!

    

 

To enter all you have to do is comment and leave a suggestion for a future classroom or hallway hunt!  So far, I've only been putting hunts on TpT that I'm using in my classroom, but I'd love to hear what you'd like to see in the future.  I'll ask hubby to pick TWO random numbers on Wednesday and, not only will those people win TWO of their choice, but when I finish the activity for their suggestion, I'll send them both that one too!

I'd love to hear how you keep grammar practice fun and engaging in your classroom too.  It's such a biggie on the ACT that we've got to get our kiddos prepared now so they can continue to grow into grammar police as they get nearer to that test in high school!  How do you keep it fun and limit the workbook/worksheet pages while still practicing skills?