I subbed for 5 years in everything from Pre-K to 6th grade. I taught school for 16 years in grades 2nd-4th. For 3 years, I worked as a Literacy Specialist. I have an ELAD certification for ESL students. My masters degree is in Curriculum and Instruction, and offer teachers in my area a Professional Development course through Dominican University of California every summer.
This collection of holiday workbooks are perfect for centers or as independent or guided classwork. Each booklet focuses on information text, comprehension, context clues, and creative thinking puzzles. Some feature writing and/or craft activities. The Mother's and Father's Day booklets feature writing activities and end with the final pages becoming a card. These booklets are a perfect way to learn about the holidays while focusing on the standards.
This collection of holiday workbooks are perfect for centers or as independent or guided classwork. Each booklet focuses on information text, comprehension, context clues, and creative thinking puzzles. Some feature writing and/or craft activities. The perfect way to learn about the holidays while focusing on the standards.
This collection of holiday workbooks are perfect for centers or as independent or guided classwork. Each booklet focuses on information text, comprehension, context clues, and creative thinking puzzles. Some feature writing and/or craft activities. These booklets are a perfect way to learn about the holidays while focusing on the standards.
Use the saying, "March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb," to explain figurative language and how a simile can take two unrelated things and connect them based on similar characteristics. Brainstorm descriptions of lions and lambs. Sort words that describe each animal. Discuss how these characteristics relate to the month of March.
Help your students learn that thanksgiving looks different and takes place at different times around the world. Here are 12 celebrations to discuss and each has 2 writing prompts to practice comparing and contrasting similar topics. The book ends with 3 math activities for collecting and displaying the same data in different ways including a chart/table, line plot, and bar graph. Guaranteed to keep students busy throughout November!
Perfect for circle-seat-center, independent work, or guided work for the week before Spring Break. A short informative article summarizes spring break and asks 3 comprehension questions. There is an opinion writing prompt with organizer that will require notebook paper or a computer to complete the response. Three word play activities are included to practice context clues and critical thinking skills. There is an exercise in reasoning asking students to pick a place to go on spring break, expla
This book is made to allow you to focus on either the history of Easter eggs if you are at a public school, the symbolism of Easter if you are at a private school, or both if you homeschool. The workbook has an expository text with comprehension questions, an informative article and activity on decorating eggs as the Polish do, and three word play activities to practice context clues and creative thinking.
Learn about George Washington's birthday and how it became Presidents Day through this informational article and comprehension questions. Solve some context clue riddles before a little word play activity using only the letters found in Presidents Day. To wrap up the booklet, students will write their own presidential speech.
This booklet offers an informative article on the history of Groundhog Day with comprehension questions, context clue word play activities, a poetry comprehension page, a shadow facts comprehension activity, two acrostic poem templates, and creative thinking activity.
This booklet is a fun way to learn one story of how Valentine's Day traditions started. It contains an expository article on the legend of Valentine's Day with three comprehension questions, three word play activities, and one create your own love bug activity.
This booklet contains an expository article on how Labor Day came about. It includes comprehension questions, word play activities to use context clues and creative thinking, and an opinion writing prompt.
A short article on the history of Juneteenth, comprehension questions, a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation to make a scroll, and a poetry activity with an excerpt from Mary O'Neill's What is Red poem.
This booklet is ready to work on informational reading and writing skills, using fun activities to practice context clues, creative thinking, and comprehension strategies while learning about Martin Luther King Jr. It includes an activity using phrases from the "I Have a Dream" speech to create a poem or tribute to MLK and to compare and contrast oneself to MLK Jr.
This Father's Day booklet starts with an acrostic poem template, followed by an opinion writing prompt about dads, and includes interview questions for students to practice conducting an interview. If purchased with the Mother's Day packet it is a perfect companion for comparing and contrasting. The booklet ends with a father's day card for students to color.
Five days of ELA activities to learn about and celebrate mothers. Includes an acrostic poem, personal narrative prompt, interview questions, a comparative paragraph prompt, and a drawing and coupon page to include in the card on the last pages of the book.
English Language Arts workbook with fun context clues activities, non-fiction article with comprehension questions about the history of Earth Day. Free write on ways to help the planet and a cut and paste activity. Answer key included.
A brief informational article about how to prepare for the Day of the Dead and the symbolism of its practices. Booklet includes comprehension questions, world play that includes context clues, and coloring a skull for the celebration.
This 18 page booklet includes a KWL chart, math word problems, 3 way Venn Diagram, tally chart, line plot, and 3 writing pages among the history of the Pilgrims voyage and arrival at Plymouth, background on Massasoit, Samoset, and Tisquantum/Squanto. It ends with the ways thanksgiving has taken place over the years until becoming a National Holiday.
A brief history of Saint Patrick's Day with comprehension questions, context clues activities for creative thinking, drawing and craft activity, and a writing prompt to practice using voice in an fictional narrative.
The Halloween Word Bank Book was developed with second language learners in mind. The words are in the same order as the letters in the Halloween acrostic to help students transfer the words directly to the poem template that is included. The booklet has directions for two options (copying or adding to) depending on the students wants and/or needs. I use it with my emerging through developing WIDA students. The October Word and Phrases Bank is beneficial to all students.
2nd - 3rd
Poetry, Vocabulary
CCSS
L.2.1a
, L.2.1e
, L.2.2
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Experience
I subbed for 5 years in everything from Pre-K to 6th grade. I taught school for 16 years in grades 2nd-4th. For 3 years, I worked as a Literacy Specialist. I have an ELAD certification for ESL students. My masters degree is in Curriculum and Instruction, and offer teachers in my area a Professional Development course through Dominican University of California every summer.
Teaching style
I believe students learn best through guided discovery used often in small groups or partnerships where they are able to discuss and question their own understanding. Being able to talk with their peers before sharing their ideas and own understanding gives all students the opportunity to process what they are learning, change perspectives, and grow their understanding and confidence. Every classroom should be a safe place to make mistakes, so that mistakes become normalized and turned into a means to grow and shine.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Excellence in Math
Employee of the Year
My own education history
AS in Marketing
BA in Elementary Education
MA in Curriculum and Instruction
Additional biographical information
I have been trained in Write From the Beginning, Words Their Way, ELAD, Readers and Writers Workshop, FOSS, and GLAD.
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