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Article: Card school for kids.
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- Petersfield Post (Petersfield, England)
- Article date:
- May 10, 2008
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AN ENGLISH teacher has given a whole new meaning to the phrase card school by inventing a game which can help students learn.
David Kinder, of Froxfield, an English teacher at Alton College, has devised a card game which he says can improve pupils' grammar.
Grammaticus, now on sale at One Tree Books, Lavant Street, follows the format of well-known games such as rummy and pontoon but substitutes numbers and suits with words and word classes, such as nouns, adjectives and verbs.
Mr Kinder said the students that have played the game show a better understanding of grammar.
"The cards have proved very popular with students and work equally ...