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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

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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
Final Consonant Blends - rd Word Search
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Final Consonant Blends - rd Word Search

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This final consonant blends word search on the -rd ending blend also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included. Vocabulary Terms Included: ♦ Award ♦ Beard ♦ Bird ♦ Board ♦ Card ♦ Cord ♦ Leopard ♦ Lizard ♦ Sword
Final Consonant Blends - ld Word Search
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Final Consonant Blends - ld Word Search

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This final consonant blends word search on the -ld ending blend also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included. Vocabulary Terms Included: ♦ Bald ♦ Build ♦ Child ♦ Cold ♦ Fold ♦ Gold ♦ Hold ♦ Shield ♦ World
Final Consonant Blends - lt Word Search
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Final Consonant Blends - lt Word Search

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This final consonant blends word search on the -lt ending blend also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included. Vocabulary Terms Included: ♦ Belt ♦ Bolt ♦ Catapult ♦ Halt ♦ Kilt ♦ Melt ♦ Quilt ♦ Salt ♦ Wilt
CVC Words: Short I Word Search
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CVC Words: Short I Word Search

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This word search on the short I CVC words also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included. Vocabulary Terms Included: ♦ Bin ♦ Dig ♦ Dip ♦ Lid ♦ Pig ♦ Rip ♦ Sit ♦ Wig ♦ Zip
Adjectives Word Wall Cards
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Adjectives Word Wall Cards

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These word wall cards are a great way for students to improve their vocabulary of adjectives. This product contains 24 cards with definitions and images for each term: ♦ Cold ♦ Curious ♦ Fast ♦ First ♦ Happy ♦ Heavy ♦ Hot ♦ Itchy ♦ Lazy ♦ Lonely ♦ Loud ♦ Lumpy ♦ Mean ♦ Messy ♦ Quiet ♦ Rainy ♦ Round ♦ Shiny ♦ Short ♦ Smart ♦ Smelly ♦ Talkative ♦ Tall ♦ Windy
Character Traits Word Wall Cards
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Character Traits Word Wall Cards

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These word wall cards are a great way for students to improve their knowledge of the different character traits. This product contains 16 cards with definitions and images for each term: ♦ Adventurous ♦ Afraid ♦ Bully ♦ Clumsy ♦ Confident ♦ Confused ♦ Curious ♦ Happy ♦ Lazy ♦ Lonely ♦ Loud ♦ Mean ♦ Messy ♦ Quiet ♦ Smart ♦ Talkative
Collective Nouns Word Wall Cards
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Collective Nouns Word Wall Cards

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These word wall cards are a great way for students to improve their knowledge of the different types of collective nouns. This product contains 20 cards with the following terms: ♦ Audience ♦ Band ♦ Batch ♦ Bouquet ♦ Bunch ♦ Choir ♦ Crowd ♦ Flock ♦ Forest ♦ Herd ♦ Hive ♦ Litter ♦ Pack ♦ Pair ♦ Pride ♦ Range ♦ School ♦ Stack ♦ String ♦ Team
Compound Words Word Wall Cards
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Compound Words Word Wall Cards

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These word wall cards are a great way for students to improve their knowledge of compound words. This product contains 16 cards with the following terms: ♦ Butterfly ♦ Cupcake ♦ Fireman ♦ Football ♦ Pancake ♦ Rainbow ♦ Skateboard ♦ Sunflower ♦ Birdhouse ♦ Starfish ♦ Horseshoe ♦ Jellyfish ♦ Lighthouse ♦ Mailbox ♦ Spaceship ♦ Toothbrush
Onomatopoeia Word Wall Cards
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Onomatopoeia Word Wall Cards

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These word wall cards are a great way for students to practice onomatopoeia words. This product contains 12 cards with the following terms: ♦ Achoo ♦ Blurb ♦ Boing ♦ Boom ♦ Buzz ♦ Chirp ♦ Crunch ♦ Fizz ♦ Hiss ♦ Slurp ♦ Splash ♦ Splat
Idioms
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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
Theme
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Theme: These theme cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while finding the theme of a story. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included. This activity has students reading 8 short passages to each other and then asked to identify the theme out of two possible choices. There is also a version where students may come up with their own judgement as to what the theme is. ***** Enjoy this Lesson? Do a search for my other Cootie Catchers: ***** ♦ 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
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Sequencing

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Sequencing: These sequencing cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while improving their sequencing skills. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included. There are two versions of the same eight passages: 1. Order of events question with multiple choice 2. Order of events question with no multiple choice option
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Verbs: These verbs cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while improving their ability to identify verbs 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 verb through multiple choice answers. ***** Enjoy this Lesson? Do a search for my other Cootie Catchers: ***** ♦ 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
Adjectives
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Adjectives: These adjectives cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while improving their ability to identify adjectives 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 adjective through multiple choice answers. ***** Enjoy this Lesson? Do a search for my other Cootie Catchers: ***** ♦ 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
Synonyms
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Synonyms: These synonyms cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while reinforcing their vocabulary and their skills with synonyms. 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 synonym of a vocabulary word within the sentence. Multiple choice options are given along with the correct answer. ***** Enjoy this Lesson? Do a search for my other Cootie Catchers: ***** ♦ 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
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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. ***** Enjoy this Lesson? Do a search for my other Cootie Catchers: ***** ♦ 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
oe Vowel Team Word Search
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oe Vowel Team Word Search

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This word search on the oe vowel team also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included. Vocabulary Terms Included: ♦ Doe ♦ Dominoes ♦ Hoe ♦ Oboe ♦ Potatoes ♦ Superheroes ♦ Toe ♦ Tomatoes ♦ Tornadoes
ake Word Family Word Search
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ake Word Family Word Search

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This word search on the ake Word Family also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included. Vocabulary Terms Included: ♦ Brake ♦ Cake ♦ Flake ♦ Lake ♦ Rake ♦ Shake ♦ Snake ♦ Stake ♦ Wake
all Word Family Word Search
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all Word Family Word Search

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This word search on the all Word Family also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included. Vocabulary Terms Included: ♦ Appall ♦ Ball ♦ Call ♦ Hall ♦ Rainfall ♦ Small ♦ Stall ♦ Tall ♦ Wall
ay Word Family Word Search
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ay Word Family Word Search

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This word search on the ay Word Family also doubles as a coloring sheet! The solution to the puzzle is included. Vocabulary Terms Included: ♦ Clay ♦ Day ♦ Hay ♦ Pay ♦ Play ♦ Pray ♦ Ray ♦ Spray ♦ Tray