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 word search on R Controlled Vowels (or words) also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Acorn
♦ Cord
♦ Cork
♦ Corn
♦ Fork
♦ Horn
♦ Horse
♦ Porch
♦ Storm
♦ Sword
♦ Thorns
♦ Torch
This word search on R Controlled Vowels (er words) also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Burger
♦ Clover
♦ Feather
♦ Finger
♦ Flower
♦ Hammer
♦ Ladder
♦ Lumber
♦ Perch
♦ Shower
♦ Spider
♦ Tiger
This word search on R Controlled Vowels (ir words) also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Bird
♦ Birthday
♦ Dirt
♦ Dirty
♦ Girl
♦ Shirt
♦ Skirt
♦ Squirt
♦ Stir
♦ Swirl
♦ Thirty
♦ Twirl
This word search on R Controlled Vowels (ur words) also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Burger
♦ Burn
♦ Church
♦ Curl
♦ Curtain
♦ Fur
♦ Nurse
♦ Purse
♦ Spur
♦ Turkey
♦ Turn
♦ Turtle
This word search on ck digraphs also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included.
Vocabulary Terms Included:
♦ Chick
♦ Clock
♦ Duck
♦ Lock
♦ Pickle
♦ Rock
♦ Rocket
♦ Sock
♦ Stick
♦ Tack
♦ Track
♦ Truck
This bundle includes a word search for open syllables and a word search of closed syllables as shown below:
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♦ Open Syllables
♦ Closed Syllables
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
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End of the Year: These end of the year cootie catchers are a great way for students to reflect about their year and the progress and achievements they have made while having fun at the same time.
End of the Year Cootie Catchers Contents:
1. Two end of the year cootie catcher versions
2. The same cootie catchers in black and white (low ink version)
3. A blank cootie catcher for students to create their own questions.
4. Playing and Folding Instructions are Included.
These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while practicing their skills with simple, compound, and complex sentences. A recording sheet and an answer key are included.
Problem Types:
1. Students identify simple, compound, and complex sentences
2. Students add or take away phrases to change the sentence type as well as combining or separating sentences. These require students to be familiar with independent and dependent clauses and conjunctions.
These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while they practice their comparing and contrasting skills.
This activity has students reading 16 text passages (some are informational passages) to each other and then asked to compare and contrast the information within the passage. Students may record their answers on the provided answer sheet. An answer key is also included.
Conjunctions: These conjunctions cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while improving their ability to identify conjunctions within sentences. 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 the conjunction. Half of the questions give multiple choice options.
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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
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
Spelling: These commonly misspelled words cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while identifying the correct spelling of many commonly misspelled words. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included.
This activity has students identifying the correct spelling, given multiple choice options, of 16 different commonly misspelled words outlined below:
Acceptable, Accommodate, Argument, Calendar, Commitment, Consensus, Embarrass, Existence, Foreword,, Inadvertent, Judgment, License, Neighbor, Occasion, Occurrence, Privilege, Proceed, Schedule, Separate Withhold
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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
These parts of speech cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while learning about the different types of parts of speech.
Contents:
1. Students identify the part of speech from its definition
(an example sentence is given in the answer with the part of speech underlined)
2. Students identify each part of speech within a sentence
(The correct words are underlined in the answer section)
3. Students identify the part of speech from example words
The following parts of speech are used within this product:
Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Interjections
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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
These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while practice their skills with identifying the main idea of a passage.
This activity has students reading 16 short and interesting informational text passages to each other and then asked to identify the main idea out of two possible choices. Some passages allow students to come up with their own judgement as to what the main idea is. The whole set is also available as non-multiple choice as well. A recording sheet with an answer key is provided.
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
Prepositions: These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while improving their grammar skills by identifying prepositions.
This activity has students reading various sentences to each other, 26 in total, and then asked to identify the preposition through multiple choice answers. A recording sheet and an answer key are included.
Inference: These inferences cootie catchers are a fun way to practice inference. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included.
This activity has students reading 16 short passages (over 2 cootie catchers) to each other and then asked to make an inference based off the passage. Students are also asked to support their answers with details from the passage.
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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
Mentor Sentences: These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while they practice analyzing well crafted sentences, known as mentor sentences.
There are 8 cards that analyze the first passage and another 8 cards that analyze a second passage for a total of 16 cards.
For each passage, students identify the following:
figurative language
Word meanings
Parts of speech
Sentence Types
Grammatical Tense
Students are given multiple choice options to the questions and a recording sheet and an answer key are included.
These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while improving their paraphrasing skills.
This activity has students reading various fun trivia sentences about Science, History and the world in general to each other and then asked to paraphrase the sentences in their own words. Example paraphrased answers are included.
Example:
Original: Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one out of an estimated 100 billion galaxies in the universe.
Paraphrased: There are about 100 billion billion galaxies in the universe, which includes our Milky Way.