Just a dozen a day and Grammar Rulz The idea is simple: Students must find and correct a dozen errors in daily-starter exercises. Four, six-week-long units feature historical periods familiar to middle-school students from ancient Egypt to Viking times. Pre-formatted SMART Notebook and Mimio(r) files allow you to engage and focus middle-school students with these unique grammar bell-ringers designed to provide you with a fast, fun, and flexible way to teach basic writing conventions Each daily exercise takes as little as three minutes and provides a new vocabulary word and authentic practice for spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and usage plus an optional extension activity. Easy-to-grade unit quizzes provide built-in assessment. Grammar Rulz works with any classroom Use it: In social studies/language arts classes or during stand-alone language-arts instruction; and With any level of technology. Ready-to-go PDFs and whiteboard files give you the power to display and correct the daily exercises using multimedia projectors or interactive whiteboards. You can also use Grammar Rulz with an overheard projector, dry-erase board, or chalkboard. Additional CD files give you a bonus story unit; Grammar Rulz Express packets with two exercises per page for an even faster and easier correction method; printable illustrations of story characters, proofreading and punctuation posters, spelling lists, and middle-school writing standards; and helpful videos on how to use Grammar Rulz with interactive whiteboard software."