Inside Bell's Brain
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Jacksonville, Alabama, United States
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This year will be my ninth year in education. I was blessed to spend my first four years in education as a Special Education Paraprofessional in my school's Autism Unit. I was simultaneously earning my Master of Arts in Education in ESL while gaining real classroom experience. Since 2011, I have been an ESL teacher, and I absolutely LOVE my job! I get to teach English to students in all grade levels, and my students are always teaching me new words in their home languages and new ideas in their cultures.
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Celebrations & Traditions Around the World Reading Passages
This resource includes 30 scaffolded non-fiction/informational reading passages to be used in conjunction with a research project on Celebrations & Traditions Around the World. There are three passages for each of 10 holidays (see below). There is a level A, designed for students in first and second grades. Level B is targeted toward students in third and fourth grades. Level C, the highest level, is geared toward students in grades five and up.
While this resource was originally designed
1st - 6th
English Language Arts, Social Studies
CCSS
RI.2.1
, RI.2.2
, RI.3.1
+3
Celebrations & Traditions Around the World Unit Bundle
This bundled resource includes my three products from my Celebrations & Traditions Around the World unit:
Celebrations & Traditions Around the World Burrito Booklet
Celebrations & Traditions Around the World Graphic Organizers
Celebrations & Traditions Around the World Sentence Frames
Other products in this series:
Celebrations & Traditions Around the World SAMPLE FREEBIE
Celebrations & Traditions Around the World DELUXE Unit Bundle (includes reading passages!)
Celebrations & Traditions Aroun
1st - 5th
English Language Arts, Social Studies
CCSS
RI.2.10
, RI.3.10
, RI.4.10
+3
Celebrations & Traditions Around the World Graphic Organizers
This resource includes 10 front-to-back (2-page) color graphic organizers AND 10 blackline masters of the same graphic organizers to be used in conjunction with a research project on Celebrations & Traditions Around the World. While this resource was originally designed as part of a co-teaching unit for second grade classes, it can easily be used and scaffolded for any grade level, particularly first through sixth. The holidays in this set include
Chinese New Year (Lunar New Year)
Day of the
1st - 5th
English Language Arts, Social Studies
CCSS
W.2.7
, W.3.7
, W.4.7
Day of the Dead Scaffolded Lesson Unit (Main Idea & Details, Multicultural)
This lesson targets Common Core English and Language Arts standards for reading informational text. You can use this lesson to introduce, strengthen, or review identifying main ideas and supporting details in informational text. In addition to these standards, this lesson provides a strong springboard for students to understand writing concepts related to organizational patterns. In other words, once you have completed this lesson and used it to guide an academic conversation about how student
1st - 5th
English Language Arts
CCSS
RI.1.2
, RI.1.8
, RI.2.2
+7
Heroes for Diversity Biography Lap Book Project
I think your students will enjoy learning about people who have supported diversity throughout modern history.
This product has many things that you’ll find useful throughout your study. It includes all the components that you’ll need for students to create their own individual lap books. You’ll find specific instructions for your convenience on each page of the lap book’s components. This will tell you how many copies of each page to produce as you prepare your materials. (I’ve combined
3rd - 6th
Informational Text, Social Studies, Writing
CCSS
RI.3.1
, RI.3.2
, RI.4.1
+10
Celebrations & Traditions Around the World SAMPLE FREEBIE
Would you like to try before you buy? This SAMPLE FREEBIE contains a little taste of the products you get when you purchase the Celebrations & Traditions Around the World DELUXE bundle.
This download includes a front-to-back (2-page) color graphic organizer for studying Independence Day in the United States. It also includes a matching blackline master of the same graphic organizer, as well as a "Suggested Answers" page.
You will also get a reading passage to accompany the graphic organize
1st - 4th
English Language Arts, Social Studies
CCSS
RI.2.1
, RI.2.2
, RI.3.1
+3
Call & Response Posters
Use these attention grabbers (a.k.a. call & response chants) to enhance student engagement and add a little variety to your classroom! Check out my blog post at http://insidebellsbrain.blogspot.com/2014/01/attention-grabbers-call-response-poster.html to read how I created the poster I use in my classroom.
Copyright (C) 2014 Erika Bell. All rights reserved by author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. Electronic distribution limited to single classroom use only.
PreK - 12th
For All Subjects
ESL Accommodations Labels
Easily document the accommodations your English learners receive on assignments and assessments. This file is compatible to print on Avery labels #5163 or labels of a similar 2"x4" size. Simply peel, stick, and check off the applicable accommodations!
Copyright (C) 2014 Erika Bell. All rights reserved by author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. Electronic distribution limited to single classroom use only.
K - 12th
English Language Arts, For All Subjects
How to Make an Ice Cream Sundae Burrito Booklet & Lesson
By purchasing this product, you'll get a pre-lesson activity that will serve as a formative assessment and critical thinking exercise (and later as a "how to" model for student reference), a ready-to-copy burrito booklet to facilitate expository "how to" writing instruction, a technology-integrated lesson with QR code supports, and a template for students to use when publishing their writing.
The first time I gave this lesson, it was an eye-opening experience to learn that several of my stude
2nd - 5th
English Language Arts, Writing-Expository
CCSS
W.2.2
, W.2.5
, W.3.2
+3
Pumpkins: A beginning literacy unit with bilingual vocabulary supports
This unit includes everything you need for a six-day unit on pumpkins, including bilingual vocabulary supports for English learners.
When you purchase this product, you'll receive...
*List of instructional standards covered in this unit
*Suggested learning map/planning matrix for sequence of lessons and activities
*Blackline masters of each component of the unit
*Bilingual vocabulary cards for classroom word wall (illustrated set and real photograph set) - 6 sets...see details below
*Suggested
K - 2nd
English Language Arts
CCSS
RI.K.7
, W.K.2
, W.K.8
+4
Chinese New Year Burrito Booklet
REVISED & UPDATED 1/7/2017!!!
Now includes full color and black-and-white copies of burrito booklet, answer key for booklet exercises, graphic organizer for research (color and black-and-white copies), graphic organizer answer key, three scaffolded reading passages, and photo vocabulary cards!
A burrito booklet is a type of foldable that creates a half-fold booklet for student use.
Use this burrito booklet about Chinese New Year (also known as Lunar New Year) to cover informational text s
1st - 4th
English Language Arts, Social Studies
CCSS
RI.1.2
, RI.2.2
, RI.3.2
Celebrations & Traditions Around the World Burrito Booklet
This resource includes a 4-page reproducible burrito booklet to use as an informational text for studying culture, celebrations, and traditions, as well as an introductory tool to launch a research project unit on celebrations and traditions around the world.
While older students could complete the reading and the activity independently, this resource is best used as a whole group or small group lesson facilitated with discussion for comprehension.
This resource is best used with my other
1st - 4th
English Language Arts, Social Studies
CCSS
RI.2.10
, RI.3.10
, RI.4.10
Celebrations & Traditions Around the World Sentence Frames
This resource includes a 15-slide PowerPoint presentation saved as PDF to use as a guided lesson on writing a research report. This guide helps early writers, struggling students, language learners, and all students write an informational/explanatory text in response to the research they have completed during the Celebrations and Traditions Around the World unit. This resource begins with a slide presenting lesson objectives using “I can” statements that are tied to Common Core ELA standards.
1st - 4th
English Language Arts, Social Studies
CCSS
W.2.7
, W.3.7
, W.4.7
Wonder Novel Unit Differentiated Assessments and Vocabulary Activities
Do you love the book Wonder as much as I do? Do you need a way to measure student growth on reading for literature standards and language standards while you complete your novel study?
You will get vocabulary graphic organizers, quizzes, differentiated assessments, and answer keys for each part of the book.
3rd - 5th
English Language Arts, Literature, Vocabulary
Accommodations Labels
Easily document the accommodations your students receive on assignments and assessments. This file is compatible to print on Avery labels #5163 or labels of a similar 2"x4" size. Simply peel, stick, and check off the applicable accommodations!
Copyright (C) 2014 Erika Bell. All rights reserved by author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. Electronic distribution limited to single classroom use only.
K - 12th
For All Subjects
Ms. Bell's 5: Posters for My Classroom Rules
Inspired by the recent subway art trend, I took my 5 classroom rules and created fun, colorful posters for classroom display.
These posters are my 5...that is, my five non-negotiable rules in my classroom. The Whole Brain Teaching rules didn’t quite fit my personality and my instructional style, so I adapted them to better suit my students and myself. I do not want to burden my students with excessive rules and consequences, so I focus on these 5 principles that, collectively, address ever
PreK - 12th
For All Subjects
ESL Accommodations Labels (Word Doc)
Easily document the accommodations your English learners receive on assignments and assessments. This file is compatible to print on Avery labels #5163 or labels of a similar 2"x4" size. Simply peel, stick, and check off the applicable accommodations!
Copyright (C) 2014 Erika Bell. All rights reserved by author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. Electronic distribution limited to single classroom use only.
K - 12th
English Language Arts, For All Subjects
Accommodations Labels (Word Doc)
Easily document the accommodations your students receive on assignments and assessments. This file is compatible to print on Avery labels #5163 or labels of a similar 2"x4" size. Simply peel, stick, and check off the applicable accommodations!
Copyright (C) 2014 Erika Bell. All rights reserved by author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. Electronic distribution limited to single classroom use only.
K - 12th
For All Subjects
What Happens When I Retell? FREEBIE Poster
Use this poster to explain retelling to your students. I'm working on explaining this to my kindergarten English learners. They practice retelling our read-alouds verbally and in their journals.
Please note that I've included two versions of the poster in this download. In one version, settings are called "places" and events are called "things that happen". This is a lighter language load for beginner level ELs, but as they develop more academic language, I encourage you to teach them the
K - 4th
Reading, Reading Strategies
How to Assemble a Burrito Booklet
Use this freebie guide to help you assemble the burrito booklets in my TpT shop. Photographs and detailed descriptions/explanations included.
Copyright (C) 2014 Erika Bell. All rights reserved by author. Permission to copy for single classroom use only. Electronic distribution limited to single classroom use only.
K - 12th
For All Subjects
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About the store
Experience
This year will be my ninth year in education. I was blessed to spend my first four years in education as a Special Education Paraprofessional in my school's Autism Unit. I was simultaneously earning my Master of Arts in Education in ESL while gaining real classroom experience. Since 2011, I have been an ESL teacher, and I absolutely LOVE my job! I get to teach English to students in all grade levels, and my students are always teaching me new words in their home languages and new ideas in their cultures.
Teaching style
I believe in creating an educational experience for students. The more senses that are engaged, the more students are learning. So when you visit my classroom, you'll likely see students moving around and making noise, expressing themselves and learning through doing. I believe in establishing strong procedures and then letting students discover their own learning within those procedures. I encourage students to chase their thoughts if they have a new idea that leads them to a new direction. I believe this is where the most meaningful learning takes place.
Awards & shining teacher moments
CCBOE Employee of the Month, February 2014
Target Early Childhood Reading Grant, 2013-2014
ACEF Discretionary Grant, 2013-2014
My own education history
Master of Arts in Education in English as a Second Language, K-12
Bachelor of Science in Marketing with Spanish minor
Additional biographical information
My name is Erika Bell, and I was born and raised in the great state of Alabama. In 2007, I graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Marketing, with a minor in Spanish. I earned my Master of Arts in Education from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2011. I am highly qualified to teach English as a Second Language (ESL) for kindergarten through twelfth grade. I have three dogs, whom I consider to be my children. In my free time, I enjoy reading, watching movies, listening to music, and spending time with friends and family.
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