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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Sadlier-Oxford Vocabulary Workshop Level C Assessments
These fifteen vocabulary tests are aligned to the Sadlier-Oxford Vocabulary Workshop Level C workbook. The workbook itself does a great job of introducing high-level, highly useable vocabulary and providing students with plenty of practice opportunities, but I have found their computer-generated tests leave a lot to be desired in the realm of rigor and relevance. Instead of just asking students to memorize definitions that they will soon forget, these fifteen unit tests and five 3-unit review te
5th - 10th
ELA Test Prep, English Language Arts, Vocabulary
Sadlier-Oxford Vocabulary Level D Tests
These fifteen vocabulary tests are aligned to the Sadlier-Oxford Vocabulary Workshop Level D (Enriched Edition). The workbook itself does a great job of introducing high-level, highly useable vocabulary and providing students with plenty of practice opportunities, but their computer-generated tests leave a lot to be desired in the realm of rigor and relevance. Instead of just asking students to memorize definitions that they will soon forget, these tests require students to locate context clue
7th - 11th
English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Vocabulary
Context Clues with SAT Words
New and Improved! Now with PowerPoint, more practice exercises, and complete answer keys. Context clue skills are critical to effective reading. Students need to be able to employ this skill automatically and accurately, so lots of focused practice is essential. Except finding good practice exercises is difficult, or at least it has been for me. What I've been able to locate are usually too few context sentences with words that are at too low a level (my students already know them so they're
7th - 12th
English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Vocabulary
CCSS
CCRA.L.4
Outlining Informational Text - two practice assignments
Outlining is a powerful tool for cutting through the chaff and getting to the essential information of a text. In these two exercises, students will read a high-quality, extended non-fiction text and then outline its main points. The texts are included, as well as blank outline and answer key filled in outlines. Both articles, as well as providing great practice on this important reading skill, can lead to some great classroom discussions.
The first article is "The Last Days of the Iceman"
8th - 12th
English Language Arts, Informational Text, Reading Strategies
Greek & Latin Roots and Affixes Workbook - Unit 1
For your instructional pleasure! The first unit from my 8-unit workbook, free for you to explore and try out in your classroom. This item includes word list, PowerPoint slide presentation of the word list, practice exercises, and assessment. It is bundled as a pdf file and a PowerPoint file zipped into one package. If you like what you see, please download the whole workbook. And please, feel free to leave a few stars or feedback. For a complete description, see the original workbook: http
8th - 12th
English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Vocabulary
Problem Words 1 - 9
English is such a confusing language! So many homophones and similar sounding words--what's a motivated student supposed to do? Here is a great resource, presented in very manageable portions, of difficult words, with a powerpoint presentation, practice assignment, and test for each unit. These lessons will help your students be better, more precise writers and increase their reading vocabulary, while giving them plenty of high-level reading practice.
This item contains ten PowerPoint pres
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
English Language Arts, Vocabulary, Writing
Advanced Punctuation -- 2 Exercises
Colons and dashes and hyphens, oh my! Take your students on an adventure into the world of advanced—and exotic! —punctuation. These two exercises (20-sentences each) provide solid practice using colons, semicolons, commas, hyphens, dashes, parentheses, and ellipses. The sentences are complex, rigorous, and all require multiple punctuation. Not only are students practicing the use of punctuation, but they are also forced to use analytical reading skills to figure out what the unpunctuated sen
6th - 11th
English Language Arts, Grammar, Reading
10 Point Essay Scoring Rubric for Peer Editing
Peer editing of student compositions can be a powerful and time-saving learning activity. This rubric is intended to be used by groups of two to four partners as they analyze and evaluate each other's writing for focus, organization, purpose/support/ mechanics on a ten-point scale. Students could highlight those statements on the rubric that best describes the piece of writing that is being read aloud, or use it to evaluate their own writing. The rubric is written in mature yet student friend
8th - 11th
English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Essays
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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
Additional biographical information
National Board Certified Teacher;
Gifted Education Endorsement
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