My teaching career includes more than 38 years of experience in first, second, and fourth grade. I am passionate about teaching and love to be surrounded by other amazing educators.
Use these handy graphic organizers to create a biography research project that includes a pop bottle project. Students will prepare a five paragraph themed biography research project along with a pop bottle character. This biography research project includes the tools to guide students through the research process. The templates are easy to use and provide students with all of the prompts and organizational tools to create a fantastic biography project! The pop bottle character project is a fun
3rd - 5th
English Language Arts, Informational Text, Writing
Use these handy biography research templates to create lapbooks. This interactive activity includes the tools to guide students through the investigative process, as well as the materials to create a display. Materials can be used to explore any personality. What's included:DirectionsSuggested schedulePictorial instructions for lapbook6 pages of research templatesList of character traitsLap book templates - timelines (guided & blank), character traits, famous quoteStudent editing sheetRubricSu
Children love animals! Help your students learn about endangered animals by reading five nonfiction passages with questions emphasizing various reading skills. The informational text includes research on a variety of endangered, threatened, or protected animals. This resource is the perfect addition to an animal unit, research activity, or nonfiction skill based reading. Students will read and respond to comprehension questions using text evidence to support their answers. In addition, students
This bundle contains an entire year of study guides/weekly news and vocabulary activities for the Wonders McGraw-Hill reading series. What a great back to school tool to help students get organized! The STUDY GUIDES focus on each of the weekly targeted skills. Each of the 30 guides includes:focused story titlesgenreessential questioncomprehension/vocabulary skillsgrammarphonicswriting tasklanguage developmentand text vocabularyThis resource provides a yearlong plan/newsletter that includes units
This bundle contains an entire year of S tudy Guides/Weekly News and V ocabulary Activities for the Wonders McGraw-Hill reading series. What a great back to school tool to help students get organized! The STUDY GUIDES focus on each of the weekly targeted skills. Each of the 30 guides includes:focused story titlesgenreessential questioncomprehension/vocabulary skillsgrammarphonicswriting tasklanguage developmentand text vocabularyThis resource provides a yearlong plan/newsletter that includes uni
Children love animals! Help your students learn about endangered animals by close reading nonfiction passages with questions emphasizing various reading skills. The informational text includes research on a variety of endangered, threatened, or protected animals. This resource is the perfect addition to an animal unit, research activity, or nonfiction skill based reading. Students will use close reading strategies to respond to comprehension questions using text evidence to support their answer
This bundle contains an entire year of study guides/weekly news and vocabulary activities for the Wonders McGraw-Hill reading series. What a great back to school tool to help students get organized! The STUDY GUIDES focus on each of the weekly targeted skills. Each of the 30 guides includes: focused story titles genre essential question comprehension/vocabulary skills grammar phonics writing task language development and text vocabulary This resource provides a yearlong plan/newsletter that inc
This bundle contains an entire year of Study Guides/Weekly News and Vocabulary Activities for the Wonders McGraw-Hill reading series. This is a complete set of resources for third, fourth, and fifth grade. What a great back to school tool to help students get organized and stay organized throughout the year! The STUDY GUIDES focus on each of the weekly targeted skills. Each of the guides includes:focused story titlesgenreessential questioncomprehension/vocabulary skillsgrammarphonicswriting ta
These reading passages focus on various leaders with questions emphasizing comprehension and leadership traits. Informational texts focus on men and women from various cultures and backgrounds. These biographies allow students to read about several great leaders and their many accomplishments. This resource is the perfect addition to a leadership or biography unit. It is also a part of the Biography Passages Bundle. Passages were developed to inspire students to become leaders, as well as
My teaching career includes more than 38 years of experience in first, second, and fourth grade. I am passionate about teaching and love to be surrounded by other amazing educators.
Teaching style
I love teaching! I believe it is important to reach all students through hands-on active learning. Learning is contagious and should be fun for both the student and teacher.
Awards & shining teacher moments
I am the proud recipient of 2 special awards:
Lilly Teacher Creativity Fellow and
International STEM Fellow
My own education history
I received a B.S. in Elementary Education and a M.S. in Elementary Education -- both from Indiana University.
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