Visit Coert's website at Grammaropolis is where grammar lives! Hailed as the "Schoolhouse Rock! for the 21st Century", Grammaropolis combines traditional instruction and assessment with our innovative, story-based lessons featuring personified parts of speech and punctuation marks. He has been a Fulbright scholar in Chile and Visiting Writer in Residence at Rice University, and he now lives with his family in Houston, Texas. Coert is the author the novels ON THE FREE (2017), IN TOO DEEP (2013 Junior Library Guild Selection), LUCKY FOOLS (2012 Junior Library Guild Selection), and THE BROTHERS TORRES (2009 ALA Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults), as well as the STORM WRANGLERS children's book series. With its award-winning website, mobile apps, and music videos, Grammaropolis has revolutionized the way millions of students in thousands of schools around the world learn about grammar and writing. Grammaropolis is based on his most successful lesson plans. ReviewsĬoert Voorhees is a former writing and grammar teacher who spent years in the classroom sharing his passion for language with often skeptical middle school students. Our story-based approach combines traditional instruction with original narrative content, which appeals to different learning styles, increases both engagement and retention, and encourages students to make a deeper connection with the parts of speech and punctuation marks. The Meet the Parts of Speech series uses the mechanics of character and story (plot, motivation, setting, etc.) to breathe life into what has traditionally been unengaging subject matter. A pronoun doesn't just replace a noun Roger the pronoun is a shady character who's always trying to trick Nelson the noun into giving up his spot.
They tell the verbs where to go, when to leave, and how to get there. In Grammaropolis, adverbs don't just modify verbs adverbs are bossy. Clear and informative back matter includes textbook-style definitions and examples of how interjections express mild and strong emotion. Loneliness can be a problem sometimes because she's not grammatically connected to the other words in the sentence, but when the time comes, she leaps at the chance to express her strongest emotion yet. No matter whether the emotion is strong or mild, positive, negative, or somewhere in between, Izzy lives to express it. Yay! It's book eight of the Meet the Parts of Speech series, in which the eight parts of speech are personified based on the roles they play in the sentence.
Izzy the Interjection makes learning about interjections fun.
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