IgnitED
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Michelle Williams is a veteran educator committed to finding new and exciting ways to reach the young minds she molds in her classroom each day.
Her creative educational concepts have helped ignite a fire in the minds of hundreds of the world’s most impressionable and vulnerable youth. Through her own classroom and through mentoring and advising new teachers, Michelle is dedicated to Fueling Great Minds.
Michelle holds a Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education and a Master of Science degree in curriculum, instruction and technology. She is certified to teach grades 1-8 in both Texas and Louisiana. She is also licensed to lead schools, though the classroom is where her heart remains. While she has taught language arts, social studies, science and math, her specialty is elementary math.
Throughout her career, Michelle has served in a variety of capacities. She has propelled students to new heights as a classroom teacher and has mentored new educators as a lead teacher and TAP mentor teacher and TAP master teacher. She’s also spearheaded the direction of instructional strategies at her schools as an instructional coach and department chair.
Michelle remains a committed educator and hopes to share her wealth of professional knowledge and experiences with teachers, administrators and parents through her original lesson plans and resources. She is The IgnitED Teacher.
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Making a Ten Strategy- Ten Frames and Number Bonds
Making a Ten is a 3 day lesson that allows students to practice with visuals for making ten then connecting the ten frames to number bonds. The last component of the 3 day lesson is to apply the making a ten strategy to add numbers that equal more than 10.
The product includes-
-lesson plan-
-black line masters of number bonds, ten frames with worksheet
- worksheets for adding and applying the making a ten strategy
2nd - 3rd
Basic Operations, Mental Math, Numbers
CCSS
2.NBT.B.5
, 3.NBT.A.2
Decimals- Using Pennies to Introduce Decimals
This product is an alternative way to introduce decimals to elementary students using the relationship of the penny to a dollar. It includes
-lesson plans objectives and essential questions
-decimal card sorts
-popsicle sticks with pennies to represent tenths
-Y graphic organizer to compare and contrast decimals and fractions
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3rd - 5th
Decimals, Math
Metric Conversion Using a T-Chart
This product is intended to help teachers introduce converting between units in the metric system using a t-chart. It includes:
-t-chart template
-dog bones to engage students in converting
-capacity, length, and mass t-chart templates
-lesson plan
-anchor chart of metric prefixes
3rd - 5th
Measurement
CCSS
4.MD.A.1
Recomposing Numbers To Add Using the Make A 10 Strategy
Recomposing Numbers introduces students to the application of the making a ten strategy. The lessons and worksheet begin with the conceptual understanding of adding and taking away counters or cubers from a ten frame to create a friendly number to add.
The product includes-
-lesson plan with guiding questions and objective
-black line masters for addition practice with recomposing with ten frames
- worksheets for adding and applying the making a ten strategy
- game (Shake and Compose) for strug
1st - 3rd
Basic Operations, Numbers
CCSS
1.NBT.C.4
, 1.OA.C.6
Multiplication: Equal Groups and Arrays
This product is intended to provide practice for creating equal groups and arrays as an introduction to multiplication. The product includes:
-problem solving
-worksheet for equal groups and arrays
-double bubble map for comparing and contrasting the 2 concepts
-matching cards for making equal groups
This product can also be used at the end of 2nd grade to introduce multiplication.
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3rd - 4th
Basic Operations, Numbers, Other (Math)
CCSS
3.OA.A.1
, 3.OA.A.3
Subtraction- Regrouping with Money
This product provides an alternative approach to teaching regrouping to students other than using base ten blocks. The lesson includes
-subtraction worksheets
-blackline master of money
-place value mats with a picture of the money
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2nd - 3rd
Basic Operations, Math
Rounding Whole Numbers Using Friendly Numbers
Rounding Numbers Using Friendly Numbers has 3 lessons that allow students to practice rounding numbers with number lines and line segments .
The product includes-
-3 lessons
-Differentiated problems for rounding to the nearest 10
-Problem solving task for estimating
-black line masters of vertical and horizontal number lines.
- worksheets for practicing rounding to the nearest ten and hundred
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3rd
Mental Math, Numbers, Other (Math)
CCSS
3.NBT.A.1
Multiplication and Division Missing Numbers
This product contains a lesson plan and activity for using the relationship between multiplication and division to find missing numbers. It begins with a pictorial representation of the relationship between multiplication and division and ends with the Case of the Missing Number. The lesson is aligned to the 3rd grade Common Core Standard. This lesson can also be used for RTI for 4th and 5th grade students who need math intervention.
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3rd - 5th
Basic Operations
Number Disks and Modeling Subtraction With Zeros
This product can be use as an introduction to 3rd graders or as remediation for 4th graders, SPED students or other special populations. It includes:
-lesson plans with illustrations
-worksheets for independent practice
-subtraction cards for students to practice modeling the process using number discs
-number discs cut outs with 1s, 10s, 100s and ,1,000s
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3rd - 6th
Basic Operations
CCSS
3.NBT.A.2
, 4.NBT.B.4
Equivalent Fractions- Are You My Twin
Are You My Twin is a game that allows students to practice identifying to decimals equivalent fractions either in a small group or whole groups setting. The product includes:
-reproducible cards for identifying pictorial equivalent fractions
-reproducible cards for identifying equivalent fractions in numerical form
-recording sheets for small groups
3rd - 6th
Fractions
CCSS
3.NF.A.3a
, 3.NF.A.3b
, 4.NF.A.1
Subtraction-Place Value and Bundling
This is a lesson for teaching teacher the concept of trading and bundling when subtracting. It can be used for 2 graders or for students who need remediation with trading in subtraction. The product includes:
-straw bundling cards
-number discs
-place value charts
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2nd - 6th
Basic Operations, Math, Place Value
CCSS
2.NBT.B.7
Properties of Operations
Posters for 3rd grade properties of operations associative, distributive and commutative
3rd - 5th
Math
A Place Value Story
This place value story is intended to help students understand CCSS 4 NBT.1 A. the place value of the one place is 10 times the value of the previous place. It is apart of a larger lesson plan product The Penny Walk.
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3rd - 8th
Place Value
CCSS
4.NBT.A.1
Subtracting with Zeros
Instructional strategies for teaching subtracting with zeros.
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2nd - 6th
Basic Operations, Math
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About the store
Experience
Michelle Williams is a veteran educator committed to finding new and exciting ways to reach the young minds she molds in her classroom each day.
Her creative educational concepts have helped ignite a fire in the minds of hundreds of the world’s most impressionable and vulnerable youth. Through her own classroom and through mentoring and advising new teachers, Michelle is dedicated to Fueling Great Minds.
Michelle holds a Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education and a Master of Science degree in curriculum, instruction and technology. She is certified to teach grades 1-8 in both Texas and Louisiana. She is also licensed to lead schools, though the classroom is where her heart remains. While she has taught language arts, social studies, science and math, her specialty is elementary math.
Throughout her career, Michelle has served in a variety of capacities. She has propelled students to new heights as a classroom teacher and has mentored new educators as a lead teacher and TAP mentor teacher and TAP master teacher. She’s also spearheaded the direction of instructional strategies at her schools as an instructional coach and department chair.
Michelle remains a committed educator and hopes to share her wealth of professional knowledge and experiences with teachers, administrators and parents through her original lesson plans and resources. She is The IgnitED Teacher.
Teaching style
My teaching style follows concrete to abstract applications. My lessons are engaging and allows students to create a mental picture before moving to more abstract applications.
My own education history
I graduated from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with a B.S. in Elementary Education and a M.S. in Curriculum, Instruction and Technology.
Additional biographical information
I have taught in high need urban schools for most of my teaching career and all of my products can be used for SPED and all struggling or below grade level students.
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