The Chortling Bard: Caught'Ya Grammar With a Giggle for High School Students

by Jane Bell Kiester

Good grief! Is nothing sacred? Jane Bell Kiester transforms Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Much Ado about Nothing into the best way ever to teach grammar, mechanics, vocabulary, and usage to high school students. Easy to adapt to your specific needs, this fun resource gives you three years' worth of sentences, final tests with answer keys, literary devices, daily vocabulary words, lesson plans, a handy grammar reference, and a mix-and-match menu of Elizabethan swear words. Created especially to meet the needs of high school teachers and students. By the author of Caught'ya Grammar with a Giggle, and Caught'ya Again! More Grammar with a Giggle.

Genres: Professional Development

225 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1998

About the author

Jane Bell Kiester is an American educator and author best known for her Caught’ya! Grammar with a Giggle series, which uses humor and storytelling to make grammar instruction more engaging. Her popular titles include Giggles in the Middle and The Chortling Bard, designed for middle and high school students. She also wrote Blowing Away the State Writing Assessment Test and Teach Spelling So It Sticks!, offering practical strategies for writing and spelling instruction. Kiester has conducted workshops nationwide, helping educators improve language arts instruction through creative and effective methods.