International educator with over 15 years experience.
I love the nuts and bolts of language teaching, but I also like communicative activities and task based learning, including simulations.
I hold a Master of Education with specializations in reading and behavior management, as well as graduate degrees in writing and education.
International educator with over 15 years experience.
I love the nuts and bolts of language teaching, but I also like communicative activities and task based learning, including simulations.
I hold a Master of Education with specializations in reading and behavior management, as well as graduate degrees in writing and education.
A bundle of these great resources for Hatchet by Gary Paulsen:
Multi-choice Quiz
Chapter Questions + Answer Key
Chapter Vocab Lists
Vocab Quizzes & Worksheets
Simile & Metaphor Worksheet
Freebie
20 *Non-Fiction* Close Reading Passages and Worksheets
- Diverse range of high-interest extracts from authentic texts
- Designed for close reading
- Each excerpt stands alone as a close reading text suitable for scrutiny, critique, reflection, and evaluation.
- Texts may be used as bell-ringers, as homework or vacation
assignments, one-to-one tutoring, no-prep substitute plans, or any
other use
- Includes 3 levels of questions: main ideas and detail, language and literary devices, author's purpose, and evaluation and personal-connection
- Vocabulary rich
- Includes questions on text structure, word-choice, and author's bias
- Common Core Aligned
- Answer key included
- Sample Difficulty Levels included
Topics Included:
Hieroglyphics
Foreign Languages
Weather and Climate
Biology and Medicine
Biography - Joan of Arc, Da Vinci, Ghandi
Zoology
Engineering
Botany
History and Culture
Music
A bundle of these three great resources for the novel, 'The Giver' by Lois Lowry:
Multi-choice Quiz + Answer Key
Chapter Questions + Answer Key
Chapter Vocab Lists
A bundle of these three great resources for the novel, 'The Fault in Our Stars' by John Green.
Book Test + Answer Key
Chapter Questions + Answer Key
Chapter Vocab Lists
Brave New World Vocabulary Quizzes! Great for quizzes, homework, or self-directed study!
Words were carefully selected to remove obstacles to reading and improve comprehension.
- Chapter-by-chapter essential vocabulary
-14 - 15 words per chapter
- Word bank provided
- Vocabulary lists provided, but available as a separate download from my shop
- Answer key provided
Essential, chapter-by-chapter vocabulary for the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Useful for students (particularly ESL students) to look up before reading, or for the teacher to base quizzes and worksheets from. Helps students to decode meaning and facilitate fluent reading. Word-count ranges from roughly 10 - 50 words per chapter, depending on chapter length.
20 Close Reading Passages and Worksheets
- Extracts from classic literature and famous folktales
- Designed for close reading
- Each excerpt stands alone as a close reading text suitable for scrutiny, critique, reflection, and evaluation.
- Texts may be used as bell-ringers, as homework or vacation
assignments, one-to-one tutoring, no-prep substitute plans, or any
other use
- Includes 3 levels of questions: main ideas and detail, language and literally devices, author's purpose, and evaluation and personal-connection
- Vocabulary rich
- Literary devices covered include: simile and metaphor, onomatopoeia, rhetoric, mood/tone, anthropomorphism, hyperbole and more
- Includes questions on text structure and point of view
- Common Core Aligned
- Answer key included
-Recommended reading levels included
Titles Included:
Urashima Taro
Rikki-tikki-tavi
Oliver Twist
Alice in Wonderland
Sherlock Holmes
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
A Little Princess
Treasure Island
Robin Hood
The Monkey’s Paw
Beowulf
Dracula
Frankenstein
Peter Pan
Around the World in Eighty Days
The Time Machine
& MORE!
These fun task cards help students identify the key components of great sentences, and, in turn, develop their own competency in writing strong, varied, fluent sentences.
Suitable for grades 6 – 8
High-interest, real-world topics
Common core aligned
Fun, playing card theme
4 categories covering the essential components of sentence writing: clauses, phrases, sentence types (simple, compound, and compound-complex), and varying sentence openings
Variety of activities: identifying, fill in the blanks, combining, prompts, and more
14 cards per category (56 tasks in total)
Task card recording document included
Teachers’ Answer Key Included
Card backs & divider cards included
- Suitable for grades 6 – 8
- Common core aligned
- Fun, playing card theme
- Multiple question types: circling & underlining, correcting, re-writing, prompts, and more!
- 4 categories covering essential middle school language knowledge specified in the Common Core: pronouns, verbals & verb moods, active & passive voice, and common mistakes
- Great general grammar practice and review for any class
- Cards also make great bell-ringers/ exit slips when printed on paper
- 14 cards per category (56 tasks in total)
- Task card recording document included
- Teachers’ Answer Key Included
- Card backs & divider cards included
This is a fun reading activity comparing the similar though distinct celebrations of Halloween, Guy Fawkes Night, Day of the Dead, and Hungry Ghost Festival. Students read about these holidays in small groups before returning to their "home-groups" to consolidate information, and then finally coming together as a class check their findings.
- Targeted to grade 5 - 7
- Common Core Aligned
***Resource contains:***
- Four reading comprehension passages (each a brief overview of the way Halloween, Guy Fawkes Night, Day of the Dead, and The Hungry Ghost Festival is celebrated).
- A “jigsaw” worksheet where students can record their answers.
- A PowerPoint presentation displaying sample answers to the information required in the jigsaw reading worksheet (in ppt, pptx, and pdf forms).
- Detailed instructions
ALTERNATIVE: This activity could be completed alone or in pairs, just by giving the students every reading. It wouldn’t be as much fun, though.
This ten-page resource is designed to be used as a journal or diary for lower grades.To customise this resource, print as many of each page as you need. You may choose to bind the pages in a book, compile the pages in a binder, or cut and paste the pages into a notebook.
Pages Included:
1 - Cover page
2 - Journal writing resource - writing the date
3 - Journal writing resource - talking about weather and feelings
4 - Journal writing resource - holidays
5 - Daily Checklist - student self-assessment of daily performance & "Tomorrow I need to bring"
6 - My Spelling Words
7 - My Weekly Schedule
8 - My Picture Diary
9 - My Library Book
10 - My Day
EDIT: BRITISH ENGLISH VERSION ADDED SEPT. 29// PLEASE RE-DOWNLOAD IF NECESSARY. SORRY FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE
- 38 short reading passages with 2 – 3 comprehension questions per page
- designed for independent work
- should only take 5 – 10 minutes per worksheet
- literal, inferential, and real-world (personal) connection questions
- high interest, non-fiction topics including: science, technology, cooking, sports, society, and culture
- great for struggling readers or students with ESL
- perfect for use as bell-ringers, homework, vacation work, early-finishers, and in literacy stations
- fun graphics and borders courtesy of openclipart.org
- Common core state standards covered: RI4.1, RI4.2, RI4.10; RI5.1, RI5.2, RI5.10; RI6.1, RI6.2, RI6.4, RI6.6, RI6.10
*****PLEASE NOTE: These passages are based upon the paragraphs in this resource:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/paragraph-writing-task-cards-11114879
You can utilise both (as they target different skills), but it is not advisable to use them concurrently*****
This is a short workshop to introduce or re-introduce students to transition words (connectives) as a writing tool.
The worksheet contains definitions, usage, and examples.
There is also a cloze (fill in the blanks) exercise for students to apply their knowledge immediately.
Students can keep the worksheet for use as a reference tool when writing.
***The presentation is saved as .ppt, and pptx AND pdf.***
SAMPLE PROCEDURE
1. Show Ss the presentation and elicit their ideas for the function of the transitions shown on screen (e.g. "comparing"). The function (heading) will fly in after prompting.
2. Repeat this for each function.
3. Have students fill in the blanks of their cloze exercise.
4. Reveal sample answers on screen, and discuss possible alternatives.
*****PLEASE NOTE! THIS LESSON IS AVAILABLE AS PART OF THIS RESOURCE:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/sentence-and-paragraph-workshop-11095633
- Suitable for grades 6 – 8
- High-interest, real-world topics
- Common core aligned
- Fun, playing card theme
- Multiple text genres: opinion, definition, process, descriptive, narrative, cause and effect, and compare and contrast.
- 4 categories covering the essential components of paragraph writing: topic sentences, supporting details, concluding & linking sentences & writing prompts
- Variety of activities: multiple choice; write your own sentences; identify the supporting details and transition words
- 14 cards per category (56 tasks in total)
- Task card recording document included
- Teachers’ Answer Key Included
- Card backs & divider cards included