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
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
This word search on the ight Word Family also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Bright
♦ Fight
♦ Flashlight
♦ Flight
♦ Fright
♦ Knight
♦ Light
♦ Night
♦ Tight
This word search on the ing Word Family also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Awning
♦ Fling
♦ King
♦ Ring
♦ Sing
♦ Spring
♦ String
♦ Swing
♦ Wing
This word search on CCCV words also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Screw
♦ Scroll
♦ Scrub
♦ Splash
♦ Spray
♦ Straw
♦ Street
♦ String
♦ Strong
This word search on CVCC words also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Band
♦ Bank
♦ Belt
♦ Golf
♦ Lamp
♦ Mask
♦ Milk
♦ Raft
♦ Vest
This word search on the ug Word Family also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Bug
♦ Hug
♦ Jug
♦ Mug
♦ Plug
♦ Pug
♦ Rug
♦ Slug
♦ Tug
This word search on the letter B also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Balloon
♦ Banana
♦ Baseball
♦ Bat
♦ Bear
♦ Bench
♦ Bird
♦ Books
♦ Box
♦ Bread
♦ Butterfly
♦ Button
This word search on the letter F also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Fan
♦ Faucet
♦ Feather
♦ Fingers
♦ Fire
♦ Fish
♦ Flower
♦ Foot
♦ Football
♦ Fork
♦ Fox
♦ Frog
This word search on the letter D also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Daisy
♦ Deer
♦ Desk
♦ Dessert
♦ Dice
♦ Dinosaur
♦ Dog
♦ Doll
♦ Dolphin
♦ Donkey
♦ Drum
♦ Duck
This word search on the letter H also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Hair
♦ Hamster
♦ Hand
♦ Harp
♦ Hat
♦ Hawk
♦ Heart
♦ Helicopter
♦ Herb
♦ Hippopotamus
♦ Horse
♦ House
This word search on the letter J also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Jacket
♦ Jaguar
♦ Jam
♦ Jar
♦ Jay
♦ Jellyfish
♦ Jet
♦ Jewel
♦ Jog
♦ Jug
♦ Juice
♦ Jupiter
This word search on the letter P also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Pan
♦ Peanut
♦ Pear
♦ Pencil
♦ Penguin
♦ Piano
♦ Pie
♦ Pig
♦ Pineapple
♦ Pizza
♦ Plant
♦ Pumpkin
This word search on the letter Q also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Quail
♦ Quart
♦ Queen
♦ Question
♦ Quick
♦ Quiet
♦ Quilt
♦ Quiver
♦ Quiz
This word search on the oa and ow vowel team also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Arrow
♦ Boat
♦ Bowel
♦ Coat
♦ Crow
♦ Goat
♦ Loaf
♦ Pillow
♦ Snow
♦ Throat
♦ Toad
♦ Window
This word search on the long oo vowel team also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Boot
♦ Food
♦ Goose
♦ Moon
♦ Noodles
♦ Poodle
♦ Pool
♦ School
♦ Spoon
♦ Tools
♦ Tooth
♦ Wood
This word search on glued sounds (am and an) also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Can
♦ Clam
♦ Fan
♦ Ham
♦ Jam
♦ Man
♦ Pan
♦ Ram
♦ Swam
♦ Van
♦ Woman
♦ Yam
This word search on welded sounds also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Bank
♦ Drink
♦ Hang
♦ Honk
♦ Lung
♦ Ring
♦ Sing
♦ Sink
♦ Stung
♦ Tank
♦ Trunk
♦ Wink
This word search on the ore Word Family also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Bore
♦ Chore
♦ Core
♦ Ignore
♦ Score
♦ Snore
♦ Sore
♦ Store
♦ Tore
This word search on the og Word Family also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Clog
♦ Cog
♦ Dog
♦ Fog
♦ Frog
♦ Hog
♦ Jog
♦ Log
♦ Smog