Picture Book Principal
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New Jersey, United States
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I've seen it all. Classroom Teacher, Elementary Principal, Assistant Superintendent. My love is Picture Books!
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Short "A" Decodables and Vowel Sound Activities
This Science of Reading aligned support helps students master the short "a" vowel sound. 8 decodable reading passages with differentiated activities (Read, Trace, Write, Review) that introduce key consonants. 8 foundational activities aligned with Learning Intentions and Success Criteria. * if downloading into Powerpoint, install the free "AbcPrintDottedLined" font for the writing activities.
K - 2nd
English Language Arts, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading Strategies
CCSS, TEKS, VA SOL
RF.K.1
, RF.K.1b
, RF.K.2
 +35
Be a Friend Read Aloud Companion Prompts
Quick discussion, drawing, and writing prompts for the picture book, Be A Friend
K - 3rd
Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Literature
CCSS
CCRA.R.1
, CCRA.R.2
, CCRA.R.3
 +4
A Story About Afiya
A quick activity to accompany the book " A Story About Afiya" These activities ask students to draw and write about their drawing.
K - 2nd
Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Literature
CCSS
CCRA.W.3
, CCRA.W.4
Strictly No Elephants
Quick writing and drawing prompts to accompany "Strictly No Elephants"
K - 3rd
English Language Arts, Literature, Reading
CCSS
CCRA.R.1
, CCRA.R.2
, CCRA.W.2
 +1
The Invisible Boy
A quick activity to accompany the picture book "The Invisible Boy".
K - 2nd
English Language Arts, Literature, Reading
CCSS
CCRA.R.2
, CCRA.R.3
A Dog Wearing Shoes
Discussion, writing, and drawing prompts to accompany the super beautiful read aloud "A Dog Wearing Shoes". Students will be prompted to infer feelings, motive, and a change of heart as the activity takes you through key points of the book and wraps up with students drawing, justifying, and discussing.
K - 2nd
Literature, Reading, Reading Strategies
CCSS
CCRA.R.1
, CCRA.R.2
, CCRA.R.3
 +1
The Kissing Hand Question Card Activity
The Kissing Hand is such a great back-to-school picture book. This question card activity allows students to think about, discuss, and write about the events happening in the book. For use on an interactive whiteboard, as turn and talk prompts, or as writing practice, there are many ways to use the activity in your classroom.
K - 2nd
Reading, Reading Strategies, Writing
CCSS
CCRA.R.1
, CCRA.R.2
, CCRA.R.3
Higher-Order Question Creator
Enhance EVERY LESSON by using this simple tool. Upgrade not only the questions you ask students, but EMPOWER them to ask better questions with this question generator.
PERFECT for districts focusing on student-generated questions!!!
As you work through the 1-page sheet, the questions become more rigorous and unlock student curiosity and thought. Allow classroom discussion to flourish by providing this tool to students or prompting them to answer questions.
ADMINISTRATORS - this is a great
K - 12th
For All Subjects
FREE CCSS Graphic Organizer: Making & Analyzing Inferences/Multiple Perspectives
This is a free graphic organizer aligned to the Common Core State Standards for Making and Analyzing Inferences with Multiple Perspectives, Sources and Excerpts.
Visit my store for the other 44 Graphic Organizers aligned to the standards. Available in pdf and doc format so you can use as is or edit as you see fit.
6th - 12th
English Language Arts, Informational Text, Literature
CCSS
RL.6.1
, RL.7.1
, RL.8.1
 +7
Grades6-8 Common Core ELA Rubrics
These expertly designed rubrics not only meet the performance bands to identify progress toward mastery of the Common Core Standards; they also show vertical alignment to the previous and next year standards. This assists identifying and differentiating instruction for our struggling and advanced student.
Each grade level features rubrics for:
Opinion-Argument
Informative
Narrative
There is an additional:
Middle School Document Based Question
The folder has pdf and doc files so that you can u
6th - 8th
English Language Arts, Informational Text, Writing
Grades 9-12 Common Core ELA Rubrics
These expertly designed rubrics not only meet the performance bands to identify progress toward mastery of the Common Core Standards; they also show vertical alignment to the previous and next year standards. This assists identifying and differentiating instruction for our struggling and advanced student.
Each grade level features rubrics for:
Opinion-Argument
Informative
Narrative
The folder has pdf and doc files so that you can use a clean copy or modify as needed.
9th - 12th
English Language Arts, Informational Text, Writing
GradesK-6 Common Core ELA Rubrics
These expertly designed rubrics not only meet the performance bands to identify progress toward mastery of the Common Core Standards; they also show vertical alignment to the previous and next year standards. This assists identifying and differentiating instruction for our struggling and advanced student.
Each grade level features rubrics for:
Opinion-Argument
Informative
Narrative
The folder has pdf and doc files so that you can use a clean copy or modify as needed.
K - 6th
English Language Arts, Informational Text, Writing
GradesK-12 Common Core ELA Rubrics
These expertly designed rubrics not only meet the performance bands to identify progress toward mastery of the Common Core Standards; they also show vertical alignment to the previous and next year standards. This assists identifying and differentiating instruction for our struggling and advanced student.
Each grade level features rubrics for:
Opinion-Argument
Informative
Narrative
There is an additional:
Middle School Document Based Question
The folder has pdf and doc files so that you can
K - 12th
English Language Arts, Informational Text, Writing
45 Common Core Graphic Organizers for Literature and Informational Text
This zip file contains 45 graphic organizers for literature and informational text. They are formatted in two ways - so that you are actually getting 90!
There are 45 pdf files in case you want to print and photocopy with no muss and no fuss.
There are also 45 docx files in case you want to edit them OR have students type right into the graphic organizer.
It's great for smartboard lessons, submitted homework through an lms or just allowing students to have the ability to include more rich an
6th - 12th
Informational Text, Literature
Graphic Organizers for History and Social Studies!
16 High Quality Graphic Organizers.
2 Flow Charts
Frayer Model
Heroes of History
Hierarchy Triangle
Multiple Causes
Single Cause/ Multiple Effect
5 W's
Venn Diagram
Triple Venn Diagram
Concept Web
K-W-L
Fact-Opinion
And a bonus - 3 graphic organizers that accompany my book: Social Studies Can be SPECtacular
SPEC-Express
SPEECH
ARTIST
*** Files are saved in both PNG and JPEG format so that you have the ability to stretch, skew and edit as you see fit!
5th - 12th
Social Studies
Honest Abe Read-Along Lesson Plan - History, Mathematics and Language Arts
Engage your students with Language Arts, History, Mathematics, and Character Education with this lesson plan that includes an Interactive Powerpoint Read-along (perfect for interactive Whiteboards), worksheets and answer keys.
K - 2nd
Character Education, English Language Arts, Math
The New Colossus Literary Analysis Lesson
Engage students with Emma Lazarus' iconic work (so iconic that it is a Common Core Exemplar text!). This powerpoint and literary analysis lesson will pull the students into the meaning of the work!!
1st - 3rd
Informational Text, Social Studies
The Story of Lady Liberty and Sight Word Lesson
A perfect lesson to introduce The Statue of Liberty! A read-along tells her story and includes engaging sight word challenges! This lesson incorporates Mathematics, vocabulary flash sheets, a colorful powerpoint and a coloring worksheet for students to enjoy!
K - 1st
Art, U.S. History, Vocabulary
The Pledge of Allegiance and Francis Bellamy
A fun and engaging lesson with Francis Bellamy - the author of the Pledge of Allegiance. Students, will not only learn the biography of Mr. Bellamy, but they will interview him as well! There is also a powerpoint that serves as a "literary analysis" of the Pledge of Allegiance.
1st - 2nd
Civics, English Language Arts, Reading Strategies
The Town and Country Mouse - Teaching Fables through Comparison and Community.
This lesson includes a Powerpoint adapting the story of the town mouse and the country mouse (perfect for Common Core) along with 2 Lesson Plans for teaching about Community and getting to the main moral of the story. There is an additional Powerpoint file that provides a sight word activity for students.
Kindergarten
Literature, Other (Social Studies), Reading Strategies
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About the store
Experience
I've seen it all. Classroom Teacher, Elementary Principal, Assistant Superintendent. My love is Picture Books!
Teaching style
I am all about utilizing technology to unlock critical thinking and use of primary sources and informational text in classrooms. Images, videos, one-to-one computing environments as well as hands-on manipulatives are great ways to engage students.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Teacher of the Year
Who's Who Among American High School Teachers
Presenter at ASCD, NCSS, PCSS, FCSS, TCSS
My own education history
BA in History
MA in Educational Administration
Ed.D. in Instructional Leadership
Additional biographical information
Teacher, administrator, author and professional development provider. Passionate about the classroom and the content. I literally have a TON of lessons that I am going to upload. If there is any topic from K-12 that you might want to see sooner than later - drop me a line. I might have it in my editing pipeline and could move it to a higher priority!!!
I ALWAYS upload my files in a form that is editable by you. I firmly believe that you should be able to change things and make them your own!! :-)
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