Ben Travis
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Hermitage, Tennessee, United States
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I have taught in Nashville public schools since 2003, both in middle school and in an elementary Montessori school. I am now an RTI interventionist and technology coach.
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Symmetry - PowerPoint & Printables - Teaching With Powerpoint
**Over 150 slides of symmetry-teaching goodness, plus 5 pages of printable pdf sheets that students can cut out!**
This may be my favorite of all my "Teaching With Powerpoint" series. If your students don't understand symmetry after working through this, I'll gladly refund your money.
This activity is made to take place over at least 4 separate days. Notice that the printables say “Day 1,” “Day 2,” “Day 3,” and “Day 4” on them, so you would typically print only one sheet for students per day
2nd - 4th
Geometry, Math
CCSS
4.G.A.3
Money - US Coins - Teaching With PowerPoint
This is a PowerPoint which will help your students learn about United States currency, and will also let them practice counting it. It's a great tool to present, then give out a worksheet or some play money for them to work with afterward. It can be used over and over as a reference, and one slide in particular shows the fronts and backs of all coins along with their values, and can be left on the screen or printed out for their reference.
Although the standard is only in Common Core in 2nd g
K - 3rd
Measurement, Numbers, Place Value
Subitizing (simple to advanced) - Teaching With PowerPoint
**I'm offering this for free for a few days, so please leave feedback if at all possible!**
Subitizing is one of those things that is often misunderstood. Many people think it's just for Kindergarten, that it's just counting, etc. In reality, I have found it to be a very effective way to increase students' number sense, and not just young students.
What you will receive is one main PowerPoint that teaches subitizing very carefully, starting with very simple concepts like being able to identi
K - 3rd
Basic Operations, Math, Numbers
Universal Screener prep - all Kindergarten and 1st grade assessments!
It's difficult to prepare for Universal Screener benchmark testing when you don't know the formats of the tests. Often, students struggle more with the format than the actual skills and content that are being tested. With this in mind, I have created PowerPoints to help interventionists and teachers prepare their Kindergarten and 1st grade students for the most common Universal Screeners. Please read below to make sure these are a good fit for what your district is using before buying.
Ea
K - 1st
Math, Reading
character trait list
This is a list of good character traits. I put this up on my screen and we talk about which traits people in our class have. It helps them get away from always saying or writing the same things. It could also be useful for describing characters in stories, although there are only positive qualities.
K - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Character Education, English Language Arts, Reading
Aimsweb RTI practice - ELA & Math - LN, LS, PS - NI, QD, MN - K & 1st grade
I'm an RTI interventionist in Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS), and our district uses the AIMSweb
tests to monitor our students' progress.
**This will not be very useful to you if you do not monitor Kindergartners or 1st graders in ELA and/or
math using AIMSweb**
**This is a zip file with all my math and ELA Aimsweb preparation powerpoints for Kindergarten and 1st grade, so scroll down to see the full descriptions of everything you will receive.
-----ELA K-1 Aimsweb prep-----------
K - 1st
English Language Arts, Math, Phonics & Phonological Awareness
Reading BME chart (Beginning, Middle, End)
You can hand this to your students any time they are reading a fiction book, and it walks them through writing a good beginning, middle, and end. It can also be used as an outline for prewriting or even as an assessment when they finish reading something. They can draw pictures of the characters' faces, especially if they are younger students.
K - 3rd
Reading, Reading Strategies, Writing
Time PACK (all 4 powerpoints!) - Teaching With PowerPoint
**Over 700 PowerPoint slides to help you communicate time concepts to your students!**
Get all four of my PowerPoints that enable you to teach kids how to tell time!
Time part 1 - telling time on analog clocks to o'clock, half past, quarter after, and quarter to (includes section on AM and PM, and teaches the numbers 00, 15, 30, and 45 as clock positions)
Time part 2 - telling time on analog clocks down to 5 minute intervals (includes section on AM and PM)
Time part 3 - telling time on analo
1st - 5th
Math, Measurement
AIMSweb RTI math practice - kindergarten & 1st grade
I'm an RTI interventionist in Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS), and our district uses the AIMSweb tests to monitor our students' progress.
**This is both of my AIMSweb math PowerPoints (2 files for each grade level). They are also available as individual files, one for kindergarten and one for 1st grade if you don't need both grade levels.**
**The kindergarten PowerPoints work with numbers between 0 and 10 to match the AIMSweb assessment.
**The 1st grade PowerPoints work with numbers b
K - 1st
Math, Numbers
Polygons - Teaching With Powerpoint
**this one is free to give you an idea of how these PowerPoints work... most of the others are more elaborate... all of them walk students through a lesson in a clear, step-by-step way**
This PowerPoint is part of a new series I'm developing called "Teaching With Powerpoint." It is free for now so that I can get some feedback on it. Enjoy!
This PowerPoint teaches students what a polygon is, as well as the names of polygons from triangle up to decagon. It teaches, then quizzes students on th
K - 3rd
Geometry, Instructional Technology
CCSS
K.G.A.2
, 1.G.A.2
, 2.G.A.1
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Time part 2 - reading clocks to 5 minute intervals - Teaching With Powerpoint
**almost 150 slides of time-teaching awesomeness!**
**check out my "Time Pack" - all 4 of my "time" PowerPoints for one low price! https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Time-PACK-all-4-powerpoints-Teaching-With-PowerPoint-1837739**
This PowerPoint allows you to teach students how to read analog clocks down to 5-minute intervals. It increases in difficulty as you go through it, so that by the end, students are reading a regular clock with no assistance or hints. You just click through
1st - 4th
Math, Measurement
CCSS
1.MD.B.3
, 2.MD.C.7
, 3.MD.A.1
AIMSweb RTI ELA practice - LN, LS, PS - Kindergarten/1st grade
I'm an RTI interventionist in Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS), and our district uses the AIMSweb tests to monitor our students' progress.
**This will not be very useful to you if you do not monitor Kindergartners or 1st graders in ELA using AIMSweb**
What you will receive is four PowerPoint presentations for Kindergarten and 1st grade, all of which are a daily practice for these three tests - Letter Name (LN), Letter Sound (LS), and Phoneme Segmentation (PS). The main difference in th
K - 1st
English Language Arts, Phonics & Phonological Awareness
Time part 1 - o'clock, half, quarter - Teaching With Powerpoint
**free for a limited time... please leave feedback!**
**almost 200 slides of time-teaching awesomeness!**
**check out my "Time Pack" - all 4 of my "time" PowerPoints for one low price! https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Time-PACK-all-4-powerpoints-Teaching-With-PowerPoint-1837739**
This PowerPoint walks your students through an introductory lesson on time. It allows you to systematically teach your students how to read clocks that read o'clock, quarter past, half past, or quarter t
K - 3rd
Math, Measurement
CCSS
1.MD.B.3
, 2.MD.C.7
, 3.MD.A.1
AIMSweb RTI math practice - Kindergarten
I'm an RTI interventionist in Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS), and our district uses the AIMSweb tests to monitor our students' progress.
**This will not be very useful to you if you do not monitor Kindergartners using AIMSweb**
What you will receive is two PowerPoint presentations for Kindergarten, both of which are a quick daily practice for these three tests - Number Identification (NI), Quantity Discrimination (QD), and Missing Number (MN). The only difference in the two PowerPoin
PreK - K
Instructional Technology, Math, Numbers
Time part 4 - elapsed time - Teaching With Powerpoint
***almost 200 slides of time-teaching awesomeness!***
I don't know about you, but my students always struggled to understand elapsed time. I created this PowerPoint to meet that need, and teachers have told me that even their special needs students "get it" after they are shown this presentation.
This is a very thorough PowerPoint... it goes through elapsed time with analog clocks using a starting and ending time. Then it walks them through digital clocks, after which they learn to do elapse
2nd - 5th
Measurement
Geometry study guides and tests - 1st, 2nd, 3rd grade
These are some geometry study guides and tests that I have created for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders. Each one also comes with an answer key. These are in Microsoft Word format, and can be edited if needed.
These cover the following skills:
-identifying solid shapes (including cylinders, spheres, pyramids, etc.)
-identifying polygons (including quadrilaterals, hexagons, octagons, etc.)
-rays, lines, line segments, intersecting lines, parallel lines, etc.
-types of triangles (acute equilateral, ob
1st - 3rd
Geometry
CCSS
2.G.A.1
, 3.G.A.1
AIMSweb RTI math practice - 1st grade
I'm an RTI interventionist in Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS), and our district uses the AIMSweb tests to monitor our students' progress.
**This will not be very useful to you if you do not monitor 1st graders using AIMSweb**
What you will receive is two PowerPoint presentations for 1st grade, both of which are a quick daily practice for these three tests - Number Identification (NI), Quantity Discrimination (QD), and Missing Number (MN). The only difference in the two PowerPoints is
1st
Math, Numbers
FASTbridge universal screener practice - 1st gr NI (Numeral Identification)
I'm an RTI interventionist in Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS), and our district uses the FASTbridge tests to monitor our students' progress.
Interventionists and teachers may find this useful in preparing students for FASTbridge assessments.
What you will receive is two PowerPoint presentations---both allow students to practice for the 1st grade "Numeral Identification" (NI) FASTbridge assessment. The only difference in the two PowerPoints is that the numbers are mixed up so that stud
1st
Other (Math)
Say the Color, Not the Word
A great game for left brain/right brain coordination, students are to say the color of each word as it flashes on the screen. They are not to say the word, which is what creates the brain disequilibrium. Students can do it on their own, or you can do it as a class. You can also just have them take turns trying it individually with the class watching and see who gets the farthest.
1st - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Metro Nashville - STAR AR AM - DSA - TLA spreadsheet
**NOTE: I have updated this spreadsheet so that it now displays Text Level Assessment scores for each student for the year rather than Running Record scores.**
This is mainly designed for Metro Nashville Public School teachers, although it will work for any public school teacher who uses these assessment tools. This spreadsheet keeps up with your students' Accelerated Reader STAR tests, Accelerated Math STAR tests, DSA, and Text Level Assessment scores throughout the year. It's a handy way t
K - 4th
English Language Arts, Math
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About the store
Experience
I have taught in Nashville public schools since 2003, both in middle school and in an elementary Montessori school. I am now an RTI interventionist and technology coach.
Teaching style
Montessori/Public
Awards & shining teacher moments
Student Teacher of the Year 2001 - Belmont University
My own education history
Bachelor's of Music - Belmont University - 1996
Master's in Education - Belmont University - 2001
Additional biographical information
I have created several PowerPoints to go along with an idea I have that I call "Teaching With Powerpoint."
The vision behind “Teaching With Powerpoint” is to use PowerPoints not just as a presentation tool, but to actually teach content. I have been a classroom teacher for over 11 years, and I think I’ve found some pretty clear, concise ways to communicate some tricky concepts such as telling time, money, and many others. I use my method of teaching and create PowerPoints that walk through it step-by-step.
My hope in doing this is to give new teachers some additional tools that you can use to effectively communicate concepts to your students, possibly even helping you pick up a few tricks along the way that you hadn’t considered. I also hope that seasoned teachers will find these useful, since it’s something you can easily put up on the screen and walk your students through. In most cases, you probably aren’t necessarily seeing anything you’ve never seen, but I’m taking the time to create these so that you don’t have to.
The way these PowerPoints are designed to be used is to put them up on a screen (hit F5 to start), then continuously click a wireless pointer or wireless mouse as you talk through them with your students. I intentionally design my PowerPoints on a simple white background both to decrease distractions and to give you the ability to move slides back and forth between PowerPoints more easily if you want to do that. If you want a spiffy design, you can just click the “design” tab and click one that suits you. I find that the white background creates a little more of a “white board” feeling which keeps things simple. That’s how I like it, but you’re welcome to make changes once you have it.
I hope you’ll find these useful to your teaching. If you see anything you think should be changed, or if you have ideas for other PowerPoints that I haven’t designed yet, please let me know. I am continuously in the process of making new ones.
The more you buy, the more I will be motivated to design, so thanks for all your support!
-Ben Travis
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