Feltopia Press
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Jupiter, Florida, United States
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I have spent 28 years teaching advanced and gifted language arts at the middle school level. The instructional materials I offer here are informed by empiricism, experience, and research. I know what students need and what teachers want.
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The Clause of All This Trouble - Locating Subjects and Verbs
Teaching grammar can be such a monstrous chore! Make it a bit more palatable for your students and a bit easier on yourself with this grammar package that thoroughly covers locating the subject and verb of a main clause.
In order to help students write more mature and stylish (and correct) sentences, they must first be able to identify the subject and verb of a clause. And if your students are anything like mine, they can’t find a subject/verb combo with both hands and the help of a seeing ey
7th - 12th
English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing
Problem Words - Pronouns & Contractions
Here is the introductory unit to my Problem Word series, which is designed to help students sort out similar sounding or otherwise easily confused sets of words.
Included in this free item is a complete lesson on five sets of easily confused pronoun/contraction combinations: it/it's, your/you're, there/their/they're, who/whom/whose/who's, and to/too/two. The pdf file contains two exercises--one practice, one test, with answer keys, plus resources. There are already Quizlet flashcards prepa
6th - 12th
English Language Arts, Vocabulary, Writing
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About the store
Experience
I have spent 28 years teaching advanced and gifted language arts at the middle school level. The instructional materials I offer here are informed by empiricism, experience, and research. I know what students need and what teachers want.
Teaching style
I am a big proponent of rigor and relevance which, unfortunately, I have found to be sorely lacking in the resources and instructional materials provided by my school district or that are commercially available. I want to employ materials that will engage students in a deeper exploration of significant literary and informational texts; I want study guides and assessments that go beyond factual recall questions and that leave students disconnected and uninspired. In short, I want to challenge my proficient, advanced, honors, and gifted students, to make them dig deep, to explore ideas, themes, and character motivations, to appreciate novel language usage, to question the author’s subtext and purpose. Frustrated at this dearth of appropriate materials, I took it as a challenge and have spent the last five years revamping many of my earlier materials that relied too heavily on lower-level, factual recall questions. By immersing myself in Florida’s state standards and now the Common Core standards, I believe that I have been able to produce instructional materials of consistently higher quality and higher cognitive expectations.
My own education history
BA in English - Florida State University;
MA in English - Florida Atlantic University
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National Board Certified Teacher;
Gifted Education Endorsement
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