title: Elementary, My Dear! : Caught 'Ya!, Grammar With a Giggle for Grades One, Two, and Three
author:  Jane Bell Kiester 
description: Jane Kiester is the author of the popular Caughtya books: Caughtya! Grammar with a Giggle; Caughtya Again! More Grammar with a Giggle; The Chortling Bard! Grammar with a Giggle for High Schools; and Elementary, My Dear! Grammar with a Giggle for Grades 1, 2, and 3, all published by Maupin House. Teachers all over the country also use the new edition of her third book, Blowing Away the State Writing Assessment Test, to help improve their students scores on state writing assessment tests. Jane currently is writing three new books.
zlib_text: CHAPTER ONE
  SLAYING IT!
  “Tamiko, you’re going to be late for your ﬁrst day of school!” Mom
  yelled up the stairs.
  “COMING!” I yelled back. Mom was being unreasonable. I still
  had ten minutes to get to the bus stop, and I needed to upload my
  blog post before I le�.
  I’d just taken a mirror selﬁe of me in my back-to-school outﬁt:
  baggy ripped jeans and a white T-shirt with cartoony bright orange
  carrots on it. I started typing.
  “And here’s the winning outﬁt! Thanks for voting in my poll
  yesterday. I brought home so many cool outﬁts from Tokyo that I
  couldn’t pick one.
  “Now I’m oﬀ to start another year of school. The good news is
  that I ﬁnally have a class with my bestie, Sienna! 
  ”
  “Sienna” was the code name I used on my blog for one of my best
  friends, Sierra. My other bestie, Allie, was code-named “Anne”
  because her favorite book was Anne of Green Gables.
  I started to type, “The other good news is that I don’t have to take
  art this year with Mr. Rivera. I love art, but that class bored m