Bethany Ray
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Perry, Georgia, United States
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I have taught for 12 years. I have taught third for 5 years, second and fifth for 1 year, and first for 4 years. This year this is my second year as an Academic Instructional Technology Coach for my school district. I love working with teachers and their students in the classroom on integrating technology in their curriculum from Pre-K to 12th grade.
I have my Reading Endorsement (2012) and have co-taught the Reading Endorsement for my county. I have my Teacher-Leader Endorsement Coaching (2014), TSC (2015), and Inspiring Leadership Endorsement (2016)!
I have presented at Literacy Conferences on Reading and Writing hosted by Georgia College and State University (2012-2013) and Georgia Reading Association (2013), GADOE (2013), and the 23rd Annual KSU Conference on Literature for Children and Young Adults (2014), GCTM (2014/2016), LRA (2014), IRA (2015), LERA (2015), and Georgia Western University Literacy and Beyond Conference (2015/2016). I have also lead professional development at schools in my district and for the district. If you are in the area and are interested in what I am presenting or wanting to chat/visit please email me at bethanynray@gmail.com.
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Government: Branches and Levels
Government is probably one of the hardest standards to teach students in third grade because the content is very abstract. However, with this fun interactive unit, it breaks down the information for students to understand our national, state, and local government and the branches of government! It includes 2 student interactive books (the branches and levels of government), 2 reading passages for close reading with assessments, 2 vocabulary lists with assessments, extra credit assignments and ot
2nd - 3rd
Close Reading, Government, Writing
CCSS
W.3.1
, W.3.1a
, W.3.1b
+2
Georgia Regions
Georgia region FUN is exploding from this packet for your students to explore the different regions of Georgia. This product includes 2 close reading passages with assessments, vocabulary and an assessment, a 30-pages student interactive book with cut and glue animal and plant pictures for your students to learn about all the regions of Georgia, 1 take home project to involve the student's and their families in learning about the regions and habitats of Georgia, pictures of plants and animals fo
2nd - 3rd
Geography, Informational Text, Science
Superheroes Editable Newsletter and Behavior Chart
This file is an editable document for creating newsletters for the school year and behavior charts with a variety of colors and prints. See the preview for more! Wanting to SAVE you INK? It's in black and white too!
PreK - 5th
Fables Bundle
Morals, morals, morals is what can be learned from this file!
The fables included in this file are:
1. Tortoise and the Hare
2. The Lion and the Mouse
3. The Country Mouse and the City Mouse
4. The Ant and the Grasshopper
5. The Boy Who Cried Wolf
This file will include:
A ladder of what fables are is included. However, each fable addition will include a character analysis, compare and contrast interactives, books for your own students to make and read the fable on their own, masks to g
K - 3rd
Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Reading Strategies
Interactive Phonic Books
These phonic interactive books can be used for any phonics program to help your students get more practice with the written language as well as improving in their reading abilities! These interactive books can be used for guided reading lessons, stations, whole group learning, and individual learning of letter sounds, vowels, blends, digraphs, trigraphs, diphthongs, and ambiguous vowels. Each book is designed with cute and fun clipart that will make the final product of each book amazing!!! Mor
K - 2nd
Balanced Literacy, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Spelling
CCSS
RF.1.2
, RF.1.3
, RF.1.4
First Week of School Activities: Writing, Counting, Letters, and a Student Book
The file contains activities for writing prompts for students to write about how their first day of school went and the prompt "Good-bye Summer, I will miss..", ten pages of activities for students to tell all about them to their new classmates, and practice in counting of numbers 1-100 and writing uppercase and lowercase letters. The activities can be differentiated for all the learners in your classroom! I have also included a freebie in the preview!
PreK - 2nd
Balanced Literacy, Math
Quick Writes from August to May
You guys have been asking and now it is FINALLY here!!! Use this file with your students as you head into this school year and fill it with writing. In this file, it includes 4 weeks of quick writing prompts for each month to use with your students at any part of your day from August to May.
1st - 2nd
Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing
Bats: Close Reading Passages and Interactive Books
Change up those close reading passages in K-1, by integrating close reading and interactive notebooks! In this file you will find fun and informative learning four your students to learn all about bats while using text dependent questions, learning new vocabulary, and features on nonfiction text with labels! Check it out!
K - 1st
Close Reading, Grammar, Reading Strategies
Pollution
“The power is yours, stop pollution! I am Captain Planet!” (90s Television)
The only way to help protect out planet is to teach others how to protect it. In this unit, it includes an interactive 25 paged student book with a close reading passage with an assessment, and vocabulary with an assessment to teach the students what pollution is, how to conserve our resources, and how to recycle. The students will get to participate in three interactive labs on air pollution, water pollution (STEM LAB),
3rd
Balanced Literacy, Close Reading, Science
The Pledge and Patriotic Songs
Table of Contents:
Flag Brace Map……………………........................………….pages 3-4
Flag Paper Torn Activity………...........................………………page 5
Flag Student Book……………......................…………………pages6-7
Pledge Student Book……….........................………………pages 8-30
America: My Country Tis of Thee Student Book……….…pages 31-44
America the Beautiful……….............................…………pages 45-64
Writing Activity: Why do you love the U.S.…......…………pages 65-66
Thanks…….........................
K - 3rd
Social Studies, U.S. History, Writing
Interactive Reading Notebook using Fictional and Nonfictional Text for 1st Grade
This product file helps fill up your students reading notebooks with valuable and lifelong strategies to help them read fluently and to work on their comprehension. It contains easy flip-flaps for your students address the needs of the Reading Common Core Standards for first grade. They will be able to use the interactive pages to set reading goals, understand fiction and nonfictional text, compare and contrast text using fairy tales, folklores, and fables, learning about story elements of diffe
1st
Balanced Literacy, Informational Text, Reading Strategies
CCSS
RL.1.1
, RL.1.2
, RL.1.3
+17
MEGA Word Work with Words
Have you ever had to keep looking for those phonic products and programs to use in your classroom, but they are never all in one place? ME TOO!
It drives me crazy searching here and there, using this program and that product, not to mention how much time it takes to search for them all. However, none of them ever seem to have everything I need all in one place. Because of always having this issue, I just had to do something about it....and I HAVE! Everything I need is now all in one BIG BUNDLE
1st - 2nd
Balanced Literacy, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Spelling
CCSS
RF.1.2
, RF.1.2a
, RF.1.2b
+14
Civil Rights Movement
Civil Rights issues are still current in our society today! Help your students learn the history of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States and about the GREATS who started it ALL! Bring the past to life with this unit on the Civil Rights Movement: Thurgood Marshall and Brown v. the Board of Education, Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Martin Luther King and the March on Washington, and what American life was like in the 1960's. Having to teach these topics to your students can
5th
Informational Text, Social Studies, U.S. History
Economics
Teaching students how are economy works and functions can be challenging! However in this unit it includes 3 interactive student books to help you and your students learn all about economics with a close reading passage, vocabulary, and assessments. Great flip-flaps to have your students sort the difference between goods and services, academic words for your academic word wall, and a set up example of how to set up your students to create product or to provide a service to others. Melonheadz re
3rd
Balanced Literacy, Close Reading, Economics
Number Sense: Working with Numbers 0-120
Working with numbers from 0-120 can be challenging for students in Kinder and First. These activities and stations will help your students with understanding number sense. Check out the table of contents below!!!
Pages 1-53: Dot Cards and Ten Frames Cards
Pages 54-56: Dot Card and Ten Frame Match-Up
Pages 57-97(color/bw): Interactive Notebook: Show Me Ways to Make this Number
Pages 98-120: Show Me Ways to Make this Number Craft
Pages 121-131 (color/bw): Missing Number
Pages 132-142: Station 1:
K - 1st
Math
CCSS
1.NBT.A.1
, 1.NBT.C.5
, 1.NBT.C.6
James and the Giant Peach Book Companion Pack
Out of all the children's literature out there, this has to be my favorite chapter book!!! This is an integrated companion pack that uses many of the common core standards in third and fourth grade while reading the text, James and the Giant Peach. I have integrated STEAM in all aspects of this file while teaching the standards we are required to teach. Your students will learn about life cycles of animals and plants, the water cycle, types of clouds, insects, arachnids, annelids, arthropods, s
3rd - 5th
Balanced Literacy, Informational Text, Writing
Little Red Riding Hood and Other Stories
Who is afraid of the Big Bad Wolf, the Big Bad Wolf, the BIG, BAD WOLF? Not I, not I!! Check out this unit to discuss Little Red Riding Hood fable/fairytale with your students using different literature while having fun in the learning process about story elements, sequencing stories, responding to literature through writing, and comprehension/fluency assessments to help your students increase in their reading and comprehension. Check out the freebie in the PREVIEW and the table of contents for
1st
Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Reading Strategies
175 Days of Reading, Inferring, & Writing About the Meaning of Quotes
Getting students to infer and write about their reading can be hard! Check out how I teach my students to write about their inferences through their reading of quotes!
Directions on How to Use This File:
One can be given a day. The students can lift up the flip-flap (see page 92). Let your students read the quotes. Next, have them infer what the person who said the quote meant, write about it their inference, and then as a class share their thoughts to discuss the meaning of the quotes. Using
3rd - 6th
Balanced Literacy, Close Reading, Writing
Industrialism
Having to teach your students about history can be tough! However, this file will make it easier for you to teach and for your students to understand how our great country came to be as it is today. This file includes 2 student interactive books, interacitve flip-flaps, 1 vocabulary assessment, 1 fluency assessment, and 1 standards based assessment to help your students how to answer questions of the state test in reading and writing. To make this topic even more interesting to your students I h
5th
Close Reading, Reading Strategies, U.S. History
The Cold War
Real life history is still going on in the society we live in today with hot issues. Bring the past to life with this unit on the Cold War: Proxy Wars: Korean War and Vietnam War, Arms Race, Space Race, Berlin Wall, Berlin Airlift, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Having to teach these topics to your students can be tough! However, this file will make it easier for you to teach these topics to your students. This file includes 3 student interactive books, over 10 interactive flip-flaps, 12 vocabu
5th
Close Reading, Informational Text, U.S. History
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About the store
Experience
I have taught for 12 years. I have taught third for 5 years, second and fifth for 1 year, and first for 4 years. This year this is my second year as an Academic Instructional Technology Coach for my school district. I love working with teachers and their students in the classroom on integrating technology in their curriculum from Pre-K to 12th grade.
I have my Reading Endorsement (2012) and have co-taught the Reading Endorsement for my county. I have my Teacher-Leader Endorsement Coaching (2014), TSC (2015), and Inspiring Leadership Endorsement (2016)!
I have presented at Literacy Conferences on Reading and Writing hosted by Georgia College and State University (2012-2013) and Georgia Reading Association (2013), GADOE (2013), and the 23rd Annual KSU Conference on Literature for Children and Young Adults (2014), GCTM (2014/2016), LRA (2014), IRA (2015), LERA (2015), and Georgia Western University Literacy and Beyond Conference (2015/2016). I have also lead professional development at schools in my district and for the district. If you are in the area and are interested in what I am presenting or wanting to chat/visit please email me at bethanynray@gmail.com.
Teaching style
I believe in and I am a strong supporter of efficacy, differentiation with rigor, hands on project-based learning, the arts, and the integration of all subjects in a standards based classroom setting.
Awards & shining teacher moments
My Teacher is Tops Award in 2010.
I was the 2012-2013 Teacher of the Year for James H. Porter Elementary.
My own education history
I moved around a lot when I was younger, going to 13 different schools from K-12th grade. I graduated from Wesleyan College in 2006 with a B.A. in Early Childhood Education and in 2009 with a M.A. in Early Childhood Education. July 2012, I graduated from Georgia College and State University with a EDS in Curriculum and Instruction in Early Childhood Education. Through all of my experiences, it has made me into a flexible person and able to bloom where ever I am planted!
Additional biographical information
If you have any questions or comments email me at: bethanynray@gmail.com.
Check out my blog: bethanynray@blogspot.com.
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