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Complete Sentences & Subject Predicate Inside Outside Circles Game

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Looking for a fun, engaging way to review the parts of a sentence? This fun game gets students moving around the room and talking with their classmates. Students will identify a group of words as either a subject or predicate and decide if two

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

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Activities, Games

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Main Idea Interactive Notebook Foldable

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Use this foldable with your interactive notebooks to help your students find the main idea of passages and stories. Includes the foldable and step-by-step instructions to glue under each flap.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies

Grades:

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

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Activities

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Cause and Effect Differentiated Interactive Notebook Lesson

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This interactive notebook lesson will help your students practice their skills distinguishing between and identifying cause and effect. After sorting parts of sentences into causes and effects students will examine the signal words that will help

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English Language Arts, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Activities

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QAR Interactive Notebook Activities

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This set contains a note sheet describing the different QAR categories and question types. This sheet has been designed for your students to color code the first letter of each question type. A foldable with question stems is also included and a

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English Language Arts, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Activities

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Subject-Verb Agreement Inside Outside Circles Game

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Looking for a fun way to introduce or review the concept of subject-verb agreement? This engaging game will get students up out of their seats, moving around, and talking with their peers. This set includes: -directions for playing the game -2

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English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Activities

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Sun Activities

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This product contains two activities to help teach your students the basics about the sun. First is a cut and past activity teaching the positions of the sun in the morning, noon, and evening. The second sheet teaches about the relationship

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Science

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st

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Media Messages Interactive Notebook Activity and Quiz

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Looking for a fun way to teach media messages? This file will help your students understand the three different types of media messages: auditory, visual, and written. It also includes a guide to help students analyze media messages. You will get:

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Other (ELA), Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment

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Pronoun Interactive Notebook Activity

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A note sheet and 4 flaps for practicing using pronouns. Includes pictures and teacher notes on how to use this activity in your Interactive Notebooks.

Subjects:

Grammar, Valentine's Day

Grades:

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

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Activities

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Complete Sentence or Fragment Partner Game and Practice Worksheet

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This set contains everything you need to help your students practice distinguishing between complete sentences and fragments. Here is what you'll get: *Instructions for playing Partner Cards *Partner cards *Review Worksheet *Answer Key The

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English Language Arts, Grammar

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Worksheets, Assessment, Games

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Author's Purpose Interactive Notebook Lesson with Two Practice Worksheets

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Are you looking to dig deeper into Author's Purpose? This interactive notebook lesson will help you do just that. Take your students from simply naming the purpose to highlighting and underlining evidence to support the purpose. I use the flaps and

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English Language Arts, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Worksheets, Activities

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Journeys Unit Sight Word Tests First Grade

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I use these sheets to orally check the Sight Words from each unit in the Journeys Reading series. Each set contains all the words to know from all five lessons in each unit. The first check does include the six words in the Back to School lesson.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Vocabulary

Grades:

1^st

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Assessment

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Noun, Verb, Adjective Interactive Notebook Lesson

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This lesson is a great activity to review or teach nouns, verb, and adjectives. The file contains: *lesson instructions *interactive notebook pockets *sorting cards *answer sheet *writing activity

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th

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Lesson Plans (Individual), Activities, Assessment

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Noun and Verb Sort Football Themed

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Use this fun, football themed noun and verb sort to get your students excited about grammar! This pack includes: *Noun and Verb heading cards *24 nouns *24 verbs I purchased a football shaped party tray with three dividers at the Dollar Tree and

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English Language Arts, Grammar

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

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Place Value Game

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This place value game is a fun way for your student to get some practice counting how many tens and ones are in a number. There are 24 cards with numbers between 10-59. The recording sheet has boxes that are clearly marked as tens and ones. This

Subjects:

Math, Place Value

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd

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Activities, Games

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Raymond and Graham Rule the School Novel Activities

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These activities are designed to use with Raymond and Graham Rule the School by Mike Knudson and Steve Wilkinson. This is one of the most enjoyable books I've ever read with my 4th graders! The skills covered in this packet are: Author's

Subjects:

Reading, Literature

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Novel Study

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Summarizing Foldables for Interactive Notebooks

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This file includes two foldables: 1. Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then 2. Somebody, Wanted, But, So Use these in your interactive notebooks to practice summarizing!

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

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

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Activities

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Monthly Tally Mark Pages for Calendar Time

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Use these ink friendly sheets as a way to reinforce and practice tally marks. Each day during calendar time I have a student make a tally mark on that month's sheet. At the end of the month we add them all up and start over again. Each black and

Subjects:

Math, Numbers

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st

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Activities

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Skip Count by 5s and 10s

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This set is designed to be printed on cardstock and laminated. Use these cards to practice skip counting by 5s or 10s. Give each student a card have them put themselves in order for a fun brain break. Use them to find the missing number or skip

Subjects:

Math, Numbers

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd

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Activities

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Sweet Guide Words

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This sweet little worksheet will help your students get more practice determining which entry words belong on a page with a specific set of guide words. The answer key is included!! Please remember to leave feedback if you like this product!

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Valentine's Day

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

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Worksheets

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Valentine's Day Brag Tags

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Use these Brag Tags as a way to celebrate Valentine's Day in your classroom. Set includes two different designs, one with a white background to save ink. 18 Brag Tags per page.

Subjects:

Holidays/Seasonal, Valentine's Day

Grades:

PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th

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Other, Fun Stuff

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I have been teaching for 9 years and I am embarking on a new journey as a 1st grade teacher. In years past I've taught 4-6 grade Social Studies and Language Arts. I'm looking forward to a change of pace and spending some time in first grade!

MY TEACHING STYLE

Hands-on, engaging activities that meet the needs of all learners in my classroom.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

I serve as a ReadWorker for the ReadWorks organization.

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Sciences from University of Virginia's College at Wise Masters in Curriculum and Instruction from University of Virginia

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I live on a farm with my husband and all our crazy animals!

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PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Not Grade Specific

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English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Reading, Grammar, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Numbers, Science, Social Studies - History, U.S. History, Other (Specialty), Other (Social Studies - History), Other (ELA), For All Subject Areas, Literature, Classroom Management, Writing, Reading Strategies, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Place Value, For All Subjects, Informational Text, Test Preparation

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