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 vocabulary bundle includes all of the task cards listed below. Recording sheets and answer keys are provided with all products.
Important: All these Task Cards sell for $45; as a bundle they are 35% off, for $29!
Vocabulary Task Cards Bundle Contents (18 Products):
♦ Analogies (Grades 3-5)
♦ 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
ELA: This ELA bundle includes all of my English Language Arts Task Cards as listed below. Recording sheets and answer keys are provided with all products.
Important: All these Task Cards sell for $200; as a bundle they are 60% off, for $79!
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: 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 and Verbs: This bundle includes task cards for Nouns and Verbs as outlined below:
This activity has students reading various sentences to each other, 52 in total, and then asked to identify the noun or verb through multiple choice answers.
These lessons sell individually for $5.10; as a bundle they are 35% off, for $3.30!
Irregular Verbs Word Search: This also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Dig
♦ Drank
♦ Drink
♦ Dug
♦ Fed
♦ Feed
♦ Held
♦ Hold
♦ Sat
♦ Sit
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These author's purpose task cards are a great way for students to have fun while learning about the concept of the Author's Purpose.
This activity has students reading various passages to each other, 20 in total, and then asked to determine which of the following types of author's purpose is being described: Persuade, Inform or Entertain.
These author's purpose task cards are a great way for students to have fun while identifying cause and effect relationships in text.
This activity has two types of passage sets:
1. Given two statements, students identify which is the cause and which is the effect
2. Students identify cause and effect from a short passage
Homophones Word Search: This also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Berry
♦ Billed
♦ Build
♦ Bury
♦ One
♦ Sail
♦ Sale
♦ Tea
♦ Tee
♦ Won
Idioms Word Search: This also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Idioms Included:
♦ All Ears
♦ Apple Of My Eye
♦ Break A leg
♦ Cold Feet
♦ Lost My Head
♦ Money Talks
♦ On Cloud Nine
♦ Out On A Limb
♦ When Pigs Fly
♦ Zip Your Lips
These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while improving their creative and critical thinking skills.
There are 26 creative and critical thinking questions that will engage your students in a fun way. This product is great for fast finishers.
Drawing Conclusions: These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while improving their skills with inference.
This activity has students reading 16 short passages to each other and then asked to make an inference based off the passage. A Multiple choice version and open ended version is provided. A recording sheet and an answer key are also included.
These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while learning the different types of figurative language.
This activity has students reading 26 statements to each other and then asked to identify the type of figurative language that was used. A recording sheet and an answer key are also included.
Figurative Language Included:
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Idiom
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Pun
Simile
Idioms: These idioms cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while learning about idioms. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included.
Idioms: This activity has students visually seeing a picture and determining what phrase it is and its meaning.
Idioms included:
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
On cloud 9
Open a can of worms
Raining cats and dogs
Two heads are better than one
Walk on eggshells
When pigs fly
Zip your lips
Thank you to Monster Wrangler Mike who provided the images
Similes: These similes cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while learning about different Similes. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included.
This activity has students visually seeing a picture and determining what phrase it is. The following similes are included:
Cool as a cucumber
Face lit up like a light bulb
Fast as lightning
Slept like a log
Blind as a bat
Toes were as cold as ice
His anger erupted like a volcano
Proud as a peacock
Thank you to Monster Wrangler Mike who provided the images
Personification Cootie Catchers:
These are a great way for students to have fun while learning about different examples of personification. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included.
This activity has students visually seeing a picture and determining what phrase it is. The following examples of personification are included:
My heart raced
The clock shouted the time
The tree was dressed in snow
My computer died
The sun reached out and grabbed me
The leaves danced in the wind
The wind whistled a tune
The cupcake is calling my name
Thank you to Monster Wrangler Mike who provided the images
Story Elements: This story elements booklet is a fun hands on activity for students to use in their interactive notebooks. This booklet is great for...
1. Students to learn and organize each story element for a book or story
2. Describe or define what information is used for each story element
This Booklet contains assembly instructions and the following story elements:
Characters, Plot, Setting, Conflict, Solution
This activity has students reading a vocabulary word and then giving its definition.
Tones and Moods:
Fear/ Sadness
Logical/ Neutral
Humor/ Happiness
Anger/ Tranquility
Fantasy/ Romance
Arrogance/ Sarcasm
Vocab:
Apathetic, Candid, Ecstatic, Elated, Erudite, Facetious, Foreboding, Forthright, Incredulous, Indignant, Jubilant, Malicious, Melancholy, Morose, Scornful, Somber, Affectionate, Amorous, Caustic, Content, Exuberant, Fanciful, Flippant, Haughty, Insolent, Jovial, Meditative, Nostalgic, Serene, Soothing, Spiritual, Whimsical
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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
Nonfiction Text Features: These nonfiction text features cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while learning about the different types of non fiction text features. These cootie catchers contain the following vocabulary terms:
Title page, Title, Subtitle, Glossary, Heading, Index, Table of contents, Guide words And
Timeline, Cut-away/ Cross section, Table, Close-up, Map, Photograph/ Illustration, Diagram, Graph And
Electronic menu, Bullet points, Caption, Icons, Sidebar/Textbox, Labels, Keywords, Hyperlink
These non fiction text features cootie catchers come in color and black & white, and also come with a version where students can add their own definitions. All of this totals 12 usable pages which has students identifying vocabulary terms about non fiction text features (with pictures) based from the definition.
Figurative Language: These Figurative Language Cootie Catchers: are a great way for students to have fun while learning the different types of figurative language. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included.
Figurative language contents: (with pictures illustrating the concept)
Alliteration: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Hyperbole: This bag weighs a ton
Idiom: Raining cats and dogs
Metaphor: Time flies
Onomatopoeia: AARGH! and PFOOM!
Personification: The news travels quickly
Pun: Seal of approval
Simile: As quiet as a mouse
Figurative Language Versions
Students identify the...
Figurative language type from the picture representation
Figurative language type based from its definition
Students can create their own definition for each type of figurative language.
Figurative Language: This figurative language Lapbook is a fun hands on activity for students to use in their interactive notebooks. Students may research or show what they have learned by writing facts about each type of figurative language. A completed figurative language lapbook with answers is included.
Figurative language lapbook fits inside of composition books (as shown on the cover page)
Figurative Language Lapbook Contents:
1. How to use and Assembly Instructions for the lapbook
Figurative language types:
Alliteration, Metaphor, Pun, Onomatopoeia,
Personification, Idiom, Simile, Hyperbole
3. Blank versions for students to write their own facts for each term
Text Structures: This text structure cootie catcher is a great way for students to have fun while learning about the different types of text structures. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included.
This activity has students reading 8 short passages to each other and then determining which type of text structure was used:
Sequence
Compare/ Contrast
Cause and Effect
Question/ Answer
Problem/ Solution
Description
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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