I am in my 12th year of teaching 4th grade. Currently I am piloting an integrated language arts/social studies class. I have also taught 9 years of kindergarten, 2 years of 5th grade, and 1 year of middle school special education.
Do your elementary students struggle with state testing overwhelm? Are they tuning out when it comes to boring test prep packets? Grab this bundle of refreshing but effective activities that will keep your students motivated and involved all while reviewing critical skills, essay writing skills & test taking strategies for those upcoming state assessments! Included in this bundle of hands-on activities is the following: FLIPBOOK: Students will create a flipbook that will help review key test tak
Use BOOM cards for a super engaging, fun way to review the States of Matter! Terms covered include: solid, liquid, gas, evaporation, matter, volume, mass, and many more! Students will scroll through and receive immediate feedback when interacting with 20 colorful task cards to identify important scientific concepts involving the states of matter! What exactly are BOOM Cards??They are digital task cards that provide immediate feedback as students interact with them! They can be easily be uploa
Use BOOM cards for a super engaging, fun way to review the processes of erosion, weathering, and deposition! Terms covered include: physical weathering, chemical weathering, deposition, erosion, sediment, expansion, delta, and many more! Students will scroll through and receive immediate feedback when interacting with 20 colorful task cards to identify important scientific concepts involving erosion, weathering, and deposition! What exactly are BOOM Cards??They are digital task cards that pro
Do you need a fun and innovative way to teach effective sentence development that includes forming complete sentences, correcting run on sentences, identifying sentence fragments, dividing sentences into their subject and predicate, using correct punctuation, and challenging students to create complex sentences? Give your grammar instruction a new twist with this engaging, differentiated, and effective method for teaching grammar! The grammar workshop grid allows students to INDEPENDENTLY work
Use BOOM cards for a super engaging, fun way to review the types of energy! Terms covered include: refraction, reflection, absorption, vibration, medium, pitch, and many more! Students will scroll through and receive immediate feedback when interacting with 20 colorful task cards to identify important concepts with light and sound energy! What exactly are BOOM Cards??They are digital task cards that provide immediate feedback as students interact with them! They can be easily be uploaded and
Deepen and expand your 4th and 5th grade students’ understanding of key map skills using this independent choice board! Students will differentiate on their own through this set of nine different activities that review skills such as map scale, relative direction, compass rose directions, continents & oceans, map legends, coordinates, and so much more! Each project is given a point value and students will select activities that will help them reach an individual goal they set for themselves
Deepen and expand your students’ curiosity of all things STEM using this independent choice board for 4th or 5th grade! Students will differentiate on their own and demonstrate active learning when they utilize this set of nine different activities to complement any 4th or 5th grade science or math program! Each project is given a point value and students will select activities that will help them reach this goal while at the same time deepen their understanding of basic science and math pri
I created this set of 8 ½ X 11 inch posters to display for my students. I wanted them to have a visual reference for eliminating those “tired” words in their creative writing. Full of “sparkle” words such as boisterous, appalling, and colossal…..this set of cute tee-rific words is sure to help your students, too! Hang them on a piece of clothesline to make your own “laundry line”. Very cute! Included: *10 color posters featuring a common word and 6 richer choices on brightly colored tee-shi
Do your students need practice with identifying and creating abbreviations for language arts? Use this interactive set of BOOM cards to help reinforce the common abbreviations for common places, objects, names, etc.! Students will scroll through and receive immediate feedback when interacting with 20 colorful task cards to demonstrate how much they know when it comes to this important language arts skill! What exactly are BOOM Cards??They are digital task cards that provide immediate feedback a
Do your students need practice with identifying and creating contractions for language arts? Use this interactive set of BOOM cards to help reinforce the types of common contractions! Students will scroll through and receive immediate feedback when interacting with 20 colorful task cards to demonstrate how much they know when it comes to this important language arts skill! What exactly are BOOM Cards??They are digital task cards that provide immediate feedback as students interact with them! Th
Do your students need practice with analogies? Use this interactive set of BOOM cards to help reinforce the types of analogies and how to complete an analogy! Students will scroll through and receive immediate feedback when interacting with 24 colorful task cards to demonstrate how much they know when it comes to this important language arts skill! What exactly are BOOM Cards??They are digital task cards that provide immediate feedback as students interact with them! They can be easily be uploa
4th - 7th
ELA Test Prep, English Language Arts
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Experience
I am in my 12th year of teaching 4th grade. Currently I am piloting an integrated language arts/social studies class. I have also taught 9 years of kindergarten, 2 years of 5th grade, and 1 year of middle school special education.
Teaching style
I love to teach using themes! I am constantly trying to connect my language arts skills with topics relevant to the other subject areas. I feel students learn so much more if they can see how events are related to each other. I find myself creating a lot of my own materials because commercial products for the intermediate grades are still fairly divided among subjects. That's okay, though. I'm finding that my custom-made activities are the ones the students are most successful with!
Awards & shining teacher moments
Accomplished rating in OTES system;
Highly Effective value added teacher;
Unit leader position in 2 different grade levels;
Cooperative teacher to several student teachers
Recipient of Franklin B. Walter Outstanding Education Award 2015
Accepted to write curriculum for Ohio as America Project
Selected to present at OAASFEP State Conference (Connecting Ohio's New Learning Standards
My own education history
Bachelor of Arts in Education: Muskingum College;
Masters of Arts in Teaching & Curriculum: Miami University
Additional biographical information
I enjoy helping my husband run outdoor science educational trips to the western and southern states during the summer months.
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