I have been a science teacher in an urban School District for 7 years. During this time I have had the opportunity to experience teaching within classrooms at all levels of performance abilities, including full inclusion, and highly advanced classes.
I have taught middle school science (both the 7th and 8th grade) and at the high school level (9th to 12th grade science) including Anatomy, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, and Physical Science
I have a PA Professional Certi
I have been a science teacher in an urban School District for 7 years. During this time I have had the opportunity to experience teaching within classrooms at all levels of performance abilities, including full inclusion, and highly advanced classes.
I have taught middle school science (both the 7th and 8th grade) and at the high school level (9th to 12th grade science) including Anatomy, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, and Physical Science
I have a PA Professional Certi
This word search on short A CVC words also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Bag
♦ Can
♦ Fan
♦ Ham
♦ Jam
♦ Map
♦ Pan
♦ Van
♦ Wax
This word search on the end blends nd, ng, nk, and nt also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Band
♦ Bank
♦ Drink
♦ Hand
♦ Plant
♦ President
♦ Ring
♦ Sand
♦ Sing
♦ Sink
♦ Tent
♦ Wing
This word search on L Blend Words also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Block
♦ Blow
♦ Clip
♦ Clock
♦ Cloud
♦ Club
♦ Fly
♦ Glove
♦ Plane
♦ Plow
♦ Plum
♦ Sleep
Community Helpers: This Community Helpers word search also doubles as a coloring book!. The solution to the puzzle is included.
Community Helpers Vocabulary Terms:
♦ Builder
♦ Dentist
♦ Doctor
♦ Farmer
♦ Fire Fighter
♦ Mail Carrier
♦ Nurse
♦ Satellite
♦ Teacher
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This word search on collective nouns also doubles as a coloring sheet!. The solution to the puzzle is included.
Terms Included:
♦ Batch
♦ Crowd
♦ Flock
♦ Litter
♦ Pack
♦ Pride
♦ School
♦ Stack
♦ Team
This word search on the -dge and -ge word endings also doubles as a coloring sheet!. The solution to the puzzle is included.
Terms Included:
♦ Badge
♦ Bridge
♦ Cage
♦ Judge
♦ Package
♦ Page
♦ Stage
♦ Valley
♦ Wedge
This word search on the letter C also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Car
♦ Carrot
♦ Cat
♦ Clown
♦ Comb
♦ Cookie
♦ Corn
♦ Couch
♦ Crab
♦ Crocodile
♦ Cup
♦ Cupcake
This word search on the letter N also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Nail
♦ Narwhal
♦ Necklace
♦ Nectarine
♦ Needle
♦ Nest
♦ Net
♦ Newt
♦ Nine
♦ Note
♦ Notebook
♦ Nurse
This word search on the end blends ld, lp, lt, and lf also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Belt
♦ Child
♦ Gold
♦ Golf
♦ Gulp
♦ Help
♦ Hold
♦ Kelp
♦ Melt
♦ Salt
♦ Shelf
♦ Wolf
This word search on short vowel sounds also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Cup
♦ Fan
♦ Hat
♦ Leg
♦ Lips
♦ Mop
♦ Net
♦ Pig
♦ Truck
This word search on bossy r -ar words also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Ark
♦ Artist
♦ Barn
♦ Car
♦ Card
♦ Garden
♦ Harp
♦ Heart
♦ Scarf
♦ Shark
♦ Star
♦ Target
This final consonant blends word search on the -mp ending blend also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Blimp
♦ Camp
♦ Chimp
♦ Dump
♦ Jump
♦ Lamp
♦ Pump
♦ Stamp
♦ Stump
This word search on short U CVC words also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Bug
♦ Cup
♦ Gum
♦ Jug
♦ Mug
♦ Pup
♦ Sun
♦ Tub
♦ Tux
This word search on short O CVC words also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Box
♦ Cob
♦ Cop
♦ Dog
♦ Fox
♦ Log
♦ Mop
♦ Rod
♦ Top
Commas: These comma cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while learning how to properly use commas to punctuate sentences. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included.
This activity has students identifying the correct position for a comma within a sentence, and comes in two versions:
1. Students identify comma placement through multiple choice questions
2. Students identify comma placement without the use of any aids.
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♦ Reading Strategies:
Authors Purpose
Cause and Effect
Character Traits
Compare and Contrast with Pictures
Compare and Contrast
Creative and Critical Thinking
Drawing Conclusions
Fact or Opinion
Figurative Language
Fluency
Generalizations
Genre Identification
Genre Types
Idioms
Inference
Literary Devices
Main Idea
Metaphors
Nonfiction Text Features
Paraphrasing
Parts of a Book
Personification
Point of View
Predictions
Reading Comprehension
Reading Response Questions
Restating the Question
Sequencing
Setting
Similes
Story Elements
Summarizing
Text Structures
Text Structures: Informational Text Structures
Theme
Writing Prompts
♦ Vocabulary:
Analogies (Grades 3-5)
Analogies (Grades 6-8)
Analogies (Grade 9)
Antonyms
Compound Words
Context Clues
Greek and Latin Roots
Homophones
Homonyms
Multiple Meaning Words
Prefixes
Root Words
Shades of Meaning
Spelling
Suffixes
Synonyms
Tone and Mood
Transition Words
♦ Grammar:
Adjective Identification
Adjectives: Comparative and Superlative
Adverbs
Appositives
Apostrophes
Capitalization
Clauses
Commas
Conjunctions
Contractions
Mentor Sentences
Nouns: Common, Proper, and Plural
Nouns: Collective
Nouns: Common and Proper
Nouns: Irregular Plural
Nouns: Plural Nouns
Nouns: Possessive Nouns
Parts of Speech
Prepositions
Prepositional Phrases
Pronouns: Identification
Pronouns: Possessive
Pronoun Antecedent Agreement
Quotation Marks
Sentence Types
Sentences: Fragments and Run-Ons
Sentences: Simple, Compound, and Complex
Subject and Predicate: Complete and Compound
Verb Identification
Verb Tenses
Verbs: Helping
Verbs: Irregular
Verbs: Subject Verb Agreement
Verb Tenses: These verb tenses cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while improving their ability to identify verbs and their tense within sentences. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included.
This activity has students reading various sentences to each other, 16 in total, and then asked to identify the verb and its tense (past, present, or future).
Half of the questions come with multiple choice and the other half does not.
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♦ Reading Strategies:
Authors Purpose
Cause and Effect
Character Traits
Compare and Contrast with Pictures
Compare and Contrast
Creative and Critical Thinking
Drawing Conclusions
Fact or Opinion
Figurative Language
Fluency
Generalizations
Genre Identification
Genre Types
Idioms
Inference
Literary Devices
Main Idea
Metaphors
Nonfiction Text Features
Paraphrasing
Parts of a Book
Personification
Point of View
Predictions
Reading Comprehension
Reading Response Questions
Restating the Question
Sequencing
Setting
Similes
Story Elements
Summarizing
Text Structures
Text Structures: Informational Text Structures
Theme
Writing Prompts
♦ Vocabulary:
Analogies (Grades 3-5)
Analogies (Grades 6-8)
Analogies (Grade 9)
Antonyms
Compound Words
Context Clues
Greek and Latin Roots
Homophones
Homonyms
Multiple Meaning Words
Prefixes
Root Words
Shades of Meaning
Spelling
Suffixes
Synonyms
Tone and Mood
Transition Words
♦ Grammar:
Adjective Identification
Adjectives: Comparative and Superlative
Adverbs
Appositives
Apostrophes
Capitalization
Clauses
Commas
Conjunctions
Contractions
Mentor Sentences
Nouns: Common, Proper, and Plural
Nouns: Collective
Nouns: Common and Proper
Nouns: Irregular Plural
Nouns: Plural Nouns
Nouns: Possessive Nouns
Parts of Speech
Prepositions
Prepositional Phrases
Pronouns: Identification
Pronouns: Possessive
Pronoun Antecedent Agreement
Quotation Marks
Sentence Types
Sentences: Fragments and Run-Ons
Sentences: Simple, Compound, and Complex
Subject and Predicate: Complete and Compound
Verb Identification
Verb Tenses
Verbs: Helping
Verbs: Irregular
Verbs: Subject Verb Agreement
This igh and ie words word search also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Dries
♦ Fight
♦ Fright
♦ Knight
♦ Light
♦ Night
♦ Pie
♦ Sigh
♦ Tie
This word search on CCVC words also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Crab
♦ Drum
♦ Flag
♦ Frog
♦ Sled
♦ Stop
♦ Swan
♦ Swim
♦ Tree
This word search on the letter G also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Gears
♦ Gem
♦ Giraffe
♦ Glass
♦ Glasses
♦ Goat
♦ Goose
♦ Gorilla
♦ Grapes
♦ Grass
♦ Grasshopper
♦ Guitar
This word search on the letter M also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Magnet
♦ Mailbox
♦ Mask
♦ Melon
♦ Milk
♦ Mitten
♦ Monkey
♦ Moose
♦ Mop
♦ Mouse
♦ Muffin
♦ Mushroom