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Comparing and Contrasting- 6 Nonfiction Passages

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UPDATED Nov 2016- Fixed formatting on pages that had the last choice blocked. *UPDATED Jan 2014- same great content, new formatting. Much more student friendly! *UPDATED Nov 2014- formatted font to make it easier to differentiate between commas and

Subjects:

Reading, Informational Text

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Lesson Plans (Individual), Other, Activities

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My Teacher's Secret Life Back to School Writing and Fun

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Isn't it funny what our students think we do in our free time? The book "My Teacher's Secret Life" by Stephen Krensky is a perfect book for back to school time. I have decided to read this book to my students and then let them have some fun

Subjects:

Reading, Writing

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Snowmen At Christmas Activities

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This mini unit was created to go along with the book Snowmen at Christmas. There are 10 activities included from the following categories: sequencing- events from the story, how to build a snowman, and test style practice questions. compare and

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Activities, Fun Stuff, Minilessons

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109 ratings

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Sound Check and Noise Control

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Are you sick of telling your students 100x what voice level they should be at and then telling them "if I have to tell you one more time, you will be on silent...". As requested, I have listed my NOISE control and Sound Check chart. Included is a

Subjects:

Classroom Management, Back to School

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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That Crazy Elf!

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15 days worth of fun and engaging lesson plans and activities! If you want to keep your students motivated, engaged, and well behaved until the very last day before winter break then this is for you! I did this last year with my students and they

Subjects:

Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa, Winter

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Fun Stuff

$5.00

57 ratings

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Personal Word Walls 2nd Grade

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Each year my students get a personal word wall that they keep at their desk. This helps them during writing so that they don't have to get up and walk to our word wall to find a word. Any time a student asks me how to spell a word, they know they

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Spelling, Writing

Grades:

2^nd

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Word Walls

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126 ratings

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Victor and Vicky Verb- action, linking, main, and helping verbs with craftivity

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Students learn action and linking verbs (for a week in my class) and did some practice... then we did helping verbs and verb phrases (for another week) with some practice. Then the fun- I had them write a super hero story. Students had to underline

Subjects:

Grammar, Writing

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

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Worksheets, Activities, Fun Stuff

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Personal Word Walls 3rd Grade

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Spelling, Writing

Grades:

3^rd

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Word Walls

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110 ratings

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Don't Bobble Your Pronouns- Singular and Plural Pronoun Practice

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This is the first in what I hope to be a set of three mini units/lessons on pronouns. This packet contains practice for singular and plural pronouns only. I have included the following items: Mini poster- this can be used to introduce pronouns or

Subjects:

Grammar

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Activities, Task Cards

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84 ratings

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Time to the Minute Task Cards

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I have included 20 task cards for students to work on telling time to the minute. There are: 8 cards that require students to figure out the time 4 cards that give students multiple choices 8 cards that give a time and require students to draw the

Subjects:

Math, Measurement

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities

CCSS:

3.MD.A.1

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Measuring Matter Hands On Activities

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Included in this packet are three different performance activities for students to engage in measuring matter through hands on learning. The three include: measuring mass with a balance scale, measuring volume, and measuring length. I have included

Subjects:

Science, Physical Science

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Fun Stuff, Laboratory

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Personal Word Walls 1st Grade

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Subjects:

English Language Arts, Spelling, Writing

Grades:

1^st

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Word Walls

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90 ratings

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A Sentence a Week- Working with Sentences to improve writing and language skills

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I have created this product after seeing my students struggle with basic sentence and paragraph writing. I also noticed that students would use the same words all the time, not be able to modify sentences with synonyms or antonyms, and not

Subjects:

Grammar, Writing

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Other, Worksheets

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83 ratings

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Frozen in Time - a Mini Unit on Verb Tense

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**UPDATED** I realized two of the pages that were originally intended to be in this file were missing. I have added them in. Please redownload this activity if you have already downloaded it. I also corrected a typo. This unit covers 4-5 days

Subjects:

Grammar

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Lesson Plans (Individual), Activities, Assessment

$3.50

67 ratings

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Sweet, Sweeter, Sweetest- a Mini Unit on Adjectives that Compare

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**Updated Jan 2014 to include a second version of ALL materials for teachers who don't use the terms comparative and superlative! This "sweet" mini unit has a fun candy theme and contains activities to use while teaching about comparative and

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Other, Activities, Fun Stuff

CCSS:

L.3.1g

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79 ratings

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Personal Word Walls 4th Grade

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Subjects:

English Language Arts, Spelling, Writing

Grades:

4^th

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Word Walls

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I Need My Monster Descriptive Writing

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Students will listen to the teacher read the story I Need my Monster and then will create their own monsters. After drawing their monster, students will answer questions that will help them describe their monster. Students can then write a

Subjects:

Writing

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Activities

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52 ratings

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Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy Sentence and Fragment Sort

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In this activity, students will sort through a mix of 24 sentences of fragments. They will then record their answers on the included recording sheet. Included in this activity: title page ideas for how to use this activity and how I use/set it

Subjects:

Grammar

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Games, Literacy Center Ideas

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57 ratings

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A Blizzard of Past, Present, and Future tense verbs

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Students will cut the snow flakes and sort them into past, present, and future tense. *Please note this file is included in my larger unit, "Frozen in Time" a mini unit on past, present, and future tense verbs.

Subjects:

Grammar

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Handouts

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42 ratings

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Santa Loves Subject Verb Agreement

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I created this mini unit to help my students with subject verb agreement. What better way to get them excited about something not so exciting than with a little Christmas? Everything in this unit is Santa/Christmas themed. Included: ~a mini poster

Subjects:

Grammar

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Activities, Minilessons, Task Cards

CCSS:

L.3.1f

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51 ratings

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

6 years - 1 year in grades 6-8, 5 years in 3rd grade. I love teaching 3rd grade!

MY TEACHING STYLE

My goal is to be a better teacher than I was yesterday. Everyday is a new day and a new chance to make a difference in a child's life.

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IB trained

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Bachelors Degree in Childhood Education and a concentration in Math

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PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Not Grade Specific

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English Language Arts, Writing-Expository, Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Specialty, Math, Measurement, Numbers, Science, Earth Sciences, Social Studies - History, Government, U.S. History, Other (ELA), Classroom Management, Word Problems, Physical Science, Writing, Reading Strategies, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa, Winter, Place Value, Informational Text

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