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
Point of View: These point of view cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while learning about the concept of point of view. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included.
This activity has students reading short passages (16 passages over 2 cootie catchers) to each other and then determining which type of point of view was used:
First, Second, Third Person Limited, Third Person Objective, Third Person Omniscient
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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 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
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
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
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
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
Author's Purpose: These fun authors purpose cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while learning about the concept of the Author's Purpose. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included.
This activity has students reading short passages to each other and then determining which of the following types of the author's purpose is being described:
Persuade, Inform, Explain, Entertain, Describe
Types of Sentences: These types of sentences cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while learning about the different types of sentences. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included.
These cootie catchers contain the following:
1. Students identify the type of sentence from the sentence.
2. Students identify the type of sentence from the definition.
Vocabulary:
Simple
Compound
Complex
Declarative
Imperative
Exclamatory
Interrogative
Conditional
Nonfiction Text Features: This nonfiction text features 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 nonfiction text feature. Completed lapbooks with answers is included.
Note: This lapbook fits inside of composition books (as shown on the cover page)
These Non fiction text features lapbook contains the following:
1. How to use and Assembly Instructions for the lapbook
2. Completed facts for each type of figurative language:
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
3. Blank versions for students to write their own facts for each term
4. Check out the preview for more details
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
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.
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.
Beginning of the Year: This beginning of the year word search is perfect for those moments when students finish early! This word search also doubles as a coloring book!. The solution to the puzzle is included.
Beginning of the Year Vocabulary Terms:
♦ Backpack
♦ Books
♦ Computer
♦ Gym
♦ Lunch
♦ Pencil
♦ Ruler
♦ School
♦ School Bus
♦ Science
♦ Social Studies
♦ Teacher
Reading Comprehension: These reading comprehension cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while increasing their reading comprehension skills. Folding Directions (with pictures) and playing directions are Included.
These Reading Comprehension Cootie Catchers utilizes questions within Bloom's Taxonomy and contains the following versions:
1. Knowledge Questions
2. Comprehension Questions
3. Application Questions
4. Analysis Questions
5. Synthesis Questions
6. Evaluation Questions
7. Mixed Reading Comprehension Questions - Version 1
8. Mixed Reading Comprehension Questions - Version 2
9. Mixed Reading Comprehension Questions - Version 3
10. Mixed Reading Comprehension Questions - Version 4
11. Blank Template for students to create their own Cootie Catcher