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 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 I also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Ice
♦ Iceberg
♦ Icicle
♦ Igloo
♦ Iguana
♦ Impala
♦ Ink
♦ Insect
♦ Iris
♦ Iron
♦ Island
♦ Ivy
This word search on the letter L also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Ladybug
♦ Lamb
♦ Lamp
♦ Leaf
♦ Lemon
♦ Leopard
♦ Lettuce
♦ Lily
♦ Lion
♦ Lizard
♦ Lobster
♦ Lollipop
This word search on the oi and oy vowel team also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Boil
♦ Boy
♦ Coil
♦ Coin
♦ Enjoy
♦ Joint
♦ Oyster
♦ Royal
♦ Toilet
♦ Toy
♦ Voice
♦ Voyage
This word search on the letter S also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Sailboat
♦ Sandal
♦ Saw
♦ Scissors
♦ Seal
♦ Seashell
♦ Shirt
♦ Shoe
♦ Skunk
♦ Snake
♦ Sock
♦ Spider
This word search on the letter T also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Table
♦ Teacher
♦ Telescope
♦ Think
♦ Tiger
♦ Tomato
♦ Tooth
♦ Tornado
♦ Toy
♦ Tree
♦ Turkey
♦ Turtle
This word search on the letter V also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Vacuum
♦ Vampire
♦ Van
♦ Vase
♦ Vegetables
♦ Vest
♦ Vine
♦ Violin
♦ Voice
♦ Volcano
♦ Vote
♦ Vulture
This word search on the letter W also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Wagon
♦ Walrus
♦ Wand
♦ Wasp
♦ Watermelon
♦ Web
♦ Weed
♦ Whale
♦ Wheel
♦ Wood
♦ World
♦ Worm
This word search on the letters X Y and Z also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ XRay
♦ Xylophone
♦ Yacht
♦ Yak
♦ Yams
♦ Yarn
♦ Yogurt
♦ YoYo
♦ Zebra
♦ Zero
♦ Zipper
♦ Zucchini
This -air, -ear, and -are words word search also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
-air:
♦ Pair
♦ Hair
♦ Chair
-ear:
♦ Bear
♦ Pear
♦ Tear
-are:
♦ Hare
♦ Share
♦ Flare
This word search on bossy r -or words also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Alligator
♦ Corn
♦ Doctor
♦ Fork
♦ Sword
♦ Tailor
♦ Torch
♦ World
♦ Worm
This word search on bossy r -er words also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Celery
♦ Flower
♦ Gerbil
♦ Herb
♦ Jersey
♦ Lantern
♦ Pattern
♦ Spider
♦ Tiger
This final consonant blends word search on the -st ending blend also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Blast
♦ Feast
♦ Fist
♦ Ghost
♦ Gust
♦ Nest
♦ Post
♦ Toast
♦ Vest
This final consonant blends word search on the -nt ending blend also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Ant
♦ Infant
♦ Plant
♦ Point
♦ President
♦ Rodent
♦ Student
♦ Tent
♦ Trident
This final consonant blends word search on the -rk ending blend also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Aardvark
♦ Ark
♦ Bark
♦ Clerk
♦ Cork
♦ Form
♦ Shark
♦ Stork
♦ Work
This word search on short E CVC words also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Bed
♦ Gem
♦ Hen
♦ Jet
♦ Leg
♦ Net
♦ Peg
♦ Pen
♦ Pet
These word wall cards are a great way for students to improve their knowledge of the different character traits.
This product contains 16 cards with definitions and images for each term:
♦ Adventurous
♦ Afraid
♦ Bully
♦ Clumsy
♦ Confident
♦ Confused
♦ Curious
♦ Happy
♦ Lazy
♦ Lonely
♦ Loud
♦ Mean
♦ Messy
♦ Quiet
♦ Smart
♦ Talkative
Prepositions: These prepositions cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while improving their grammar skills by identifying prepositions. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included.
This activity has students reading various sentences to each other and then asked to identify the preposition through multiple choice answers..
There are two types of questions within two cootie catchers:
1. Students identify the correct preposition for the blank space within the sentence
2. Students identify the preposition within a completed sentence.
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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
Nouns: These nouns cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while identifying the four different types of nouns: common nouns, proper nouns, plural nouns, and pronouns. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included.
This activity has students reading 16 statements (over 2 cootie catchers) to each other and then asked to identify each type of noun.
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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
Capitalization: These capitalization cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while they practice the capitalization rules by identifying words that need to be capitalized. 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 all the words that should be capitalized. Answers are included.
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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