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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

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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
Compound Words Task Cards
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Compound Words Task Cards

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Compound Words: These compound words task cards are a great way for students to have fun while learning about compound words. This activity has students viewing two pictures of different objects and then figuring out the compound word. This product includes the following 16 compound words: Butterfly Cupcake Fireman Football Pancake Rainbow Skateboard Sunflower Birdhouse Fingernail Horseshoe Jellyfish Lighthouse Mailbox Spaceship Toothbrush
Context Clues Task Cards
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Context Clues Task Cards

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Context Clues: These context clues task cards are a great way for students to have fun while improving their comprehension skills and vocabulary. This activity has students reading various sentences to each other, 26 in total, and then asked to identify the correct definition for the underlined word in the sentence. An answer sheet and an answer key are included.
Homonyms Task Cards
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Homonyms Task Cards

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Homonyms: These homonyms task cards are a great way for students to have fun while practicing their skills with homonyms. This homonyms activity asks two types of questions: 1. Students identify the homonym based from two different pictures 2. Students identify the homonym based from two different definitions
Homophones Task Cards
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Homophones Task Cards

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Homophones: These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while learning all about homophones. This activity has students choosing the correct word for the given sentence.
Multiple Meaning Words Task Cards
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Multiple Meaning Words Task Cards

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Multiple Meaning Words: These multiple meaning words task cards are a great way for students to practice their skills while analyzing sentences to determine multiple meaning words (homographs). This activity contains the following 20 types of practice questions: 1. Students identify the best definition for a word within a sentence 2. Students identify sentences with the same meaning as the word is used in an example sentence
Homophones and Homographs Task Cards
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Homophones and Homographs Task Cards

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Homophones and Homographs: This bundle includes task cards for Homophones and Multiple Meaning Words (Homographs) as outlined below: All these lessons sell individually for $5.1; as a bundle they are 35% off, for $3.30!
Prefixes Task Cards
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Prefixes Task Cards

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Prefixes: These prefixes task cards are a great way for students to have fun while they practice working with prefixes. This activity has students reading various sentences to each other, 26 in total, and then asked to choose the correct prefix for a given word in the sentence. A recording sheet and an answer key are included.
Root Words Task Cards
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Root Words Task Cards

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These Root Words task cards are a great way for students to have fun while they practice working with word roots. This activity has students reading various sentences to each other, 26 in total, and then asked to identify the meaning of the word root for an underlined word. A recording sheet and an answer key are included.
Shades of Meaning Task Cards
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Shades of Meaning Task Cards

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These Shades of Meaning Words task cards are a great way for students to practice their skills with their vocabulary through shades of meaning This activity has students reading various sentences to each other, 17 in total, and then asked to determine the best word/ synonym to complete the sentence.
Suffixes Task Cards
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Suffixes Task Cards

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Suffixes: These suffixes task cards are a great way for students to have fun while they practice working with suffixes. This activity has students reading various sentences to each other, 26 in total, and then asked to choose the correct suffix for a given word in the sentence. A recording sheet and an answer key are included.
Synonyms Task Cards
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Synonyms Task Cards

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Synonyms: These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while practicing their skills with synonyms. This activity has students reading various sentences to each other, 26 in total, and then asked to identify the synonym of the underlined word. A recording sheet and an answer key are included.
Antonyms and Synonyms Task Cards
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Antonyms and Synonyms Task Cards

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Antonyms and Synonyms: This bundle includes task cards for both Synonyms and Antonyms These lessons sell individually for $5.1; as a bundle they are 35% off, for $3.30! These activities have students reading various sentences to each other, 26 in each product, and then asked to identify the synonym or the antonym of the underlined word. A recording sheet and an answer key are included.
Tone and Mood Task Cards
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Tone and Mood Task Cards

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Tone and Mood: These task cards are a great way for students to improve their vocabulary as well as their skills with tone and mood. This activity has students reading a vocabulary word and then giving its definition and stating the mood of that word. Moods: Happy, Anger, Arrogant, Sad, Fear, Neutral Vocabulary: Scornful Elated Incredulous Morose Apathetic Erudite Haughty Foreboding Forthright Savage Pessimistic Detached Melancholy Indignant Candid Exuberant Caustic Ecstatic Facetious Somber Malicious Jubilant Insolent Jovial Flippant Content
Transition Words Task Cards
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Transition Words Task Cards

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Transition Words: These task cards are a great way for students to improve their vocabulary as well as their skills with using transition words. This activity has students reading various sentences to each other, 20 in total, and then asked to choose the correct transition word to use. A recording sheet and an answer key are included.
Nouns and Verbs
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Nouns and Verbs

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Nouns and Verbs: This bundle includes cootie catchers for Nouns and Verbs as outlined below: How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included. This activity has students reading various sentences to each other, 32 in total, and then asked to identify the noun or verb through multiple choice answers. These lessons sell individually for $3.9; as a bundle they are 20% off, for $3.10!
Nouns Verbs Adjectives
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Nouns Verbs Adjectives

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Nouns Verbs and Adjectives: This bundle includes cootie catchers for Nouns, adjectives and Verbs as outlined below: How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included. This activity has students reading various sentences to each other, 48 in total, and then asked to identify the noun, adjective or verb through multiple choice answers. These lessons sell individually for $5.85; as a bundle they are 20% off, for $4.5!
Idioms Task Cards
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Idioms Task Cards

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These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while practicing their skills with idioms and their meanings. Idioms: This activity has students visually seeing a picture and determining what phrase it is and its meaning. Idioms included: All ears Apple of my eye Break a leg Cat got your tongue Costs an arm and a leg Crying my eyes out Crying over spilled milk Head in the clouds It’s written all over your face Let the cat out of the bag Lost my head Money talks On cloud 9 Open a can of worms Raining cats and dogs The cat is out of the bag Time flies Two heads are better than one Walking on eggshells When pigs fly Zip your lips
Informational Text Structures Task Cards
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Informational Text Structures Task Cards

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These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while practicing their skills with the different types of informational text structures. This activity has students reading 20 short passages to each other and then asked to determine which type of text structure was used. A recording sheet with an answer key is provided. Text Structures Included: Sequence Compare/ Contrast Cause and Effect Question/ Answer Problem/ Solution Description
Metaphors Task Cards
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Metaphors Task Cards

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These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while practice their skills with interpreting metaphors. This activity has students reading 20 metaphors which asks them to interpret the meaning of a metaphor used within each sentence. Students are given multiple choice options as well as a version without multiple choice. A recording sheet with an answer key is provided.