Kathy's Legacy
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40 years classroom experience (2 yrs high school, 31 middle school, and 7 working as a teacher's assistant at grades 1, 4, and 6).
5 years working as part of an intervention program (strategic level)
8 years ELD, 7 years as substance prevention program advisor, 14 years working with Migrant,
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STRATEGY_Skim, Skip, Scan, and Speed Reading Skills Pt2
HELP YOUR STUDENTS ACHIEVE GENUINE SUCCESS IN READING - QUICKLY AND PAINLESSLY! This is one of two files that approach tackling a mountain of text. As you know, even before the Common Core, emphasis was placed on longer passages with fewer questions. For strong readers, this poses no threat, but for weak or reluctant readers, this is a death knell to a good test score. THIS FILE IS FOR WEAK READERS (of independent age who WANT to get more out of what they read) and THIS FILE IS FOR HESITANT
6th - 10th
Close Reading, ELA Test Prep
CCSS
RL.8.1
, RI.8.1
Allusions! A timely cheat sheet of 300 cultural literacy references for students
This is a spreadsheet bank of 300+ allusion-worthy lines, people, events, and other references in easy to manage tidbits of info. Sources are Biblical, Literature, including Shakespeare, Contemporary and commercial, and Historical, all cross referenced under CREATURES, LINES, FAMOUS MALES, FAMOUS FEMALES, and color coded for easy sort access.
Look at the first picture for the categorical layout and look at the 3rd picture (the one with the left column in pink - i.e. "famous females") to get a
6th - 10th
English Language Arts, Informational Text, World History
CCSS
RL.8.1
UESG Literary Terms made friendly - over 100 mini posters mini lessons
This is the biggest, baddest collection of student friendly definitions, illustrations, and examples - most of which provide excellent mnemonics ! Literary terms are broken down, categorized, and then offered individually in colorful slides - each one printable as a mini-poster (full sized if your print room has a poster maker). Each term is hyperlinked to a master slide for quick access. A perfect support for the Ultimate English Study Guide! Each one complements the other. All of the term
6th - 10th
Close Reading, ELA Test Prep, Literature
CCSS
RL.8.4
, CCRA.L.1
Non fictional \ Informational Text Features w graphic org
This is a 5 slide PPT file that offers an interactive notebook guide with visuals as to the type of features to expect in magazines, brochures, advertisements, news articles and other non-fiction pieces and then provides graphic organizers to help students organize and explore those concepts during a lecture of those features and their purposes. An "answer key" of potential responses is also included.
6th - 9th
ELA Test Prep, English Language Arts, Informational Text
CCSS
RI.8.1
, RI.8.2
Allusions Instruction, Examples, and worksheet
Allusions, the five basic types (Common Core standards included on speaker's notes), four ways to identify them, examples, practice worksheet (encouraging identifying them in the students' everyday lives). This file works great with the cheat sheet of 300 Allusions for teens file. That is a binder resource for famous lines and cultural literacy often missing in today's youth, and following this file in terms of famous mythological figures, Biblical stories and key figures, Shakespeare's more f
6th - 12th
English Language Arts, Literature, Other (Social Studies)
CCSS
K.CC.A.3
, K.CC.B.5
, RL.8.4
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Mult Genres \ Forms: Titanic_Central Idea Summary Evidence graphic plus
12 pg PPT using an INFORMATIONAL TEXT of the Titanic's small mistakes that built up to major trouble to practice several language skills. ANALOGY: comparison of its size in terms of school buses, STRATEGY for COMPREHENSION organizer, SEQUENCING of events from the text, MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS THAT THEN REQUIRE JUSTIFICATION, Structure ANALYSIS in two levels, vocabulary, using vocabulary to determine Literary DEVICE of CONTRAST, and answer keys to all that require it. Then, there is a narrat
6th - 9th
English Language Arts, Informational Text, Reading
CCSS
RL.8.1
, RI.8.1
, W.8.1
The Outsiders, a page by page RIGOROUS guide of the EXPOSITION ONLY.
Getting students into a book is hard enough in person, so imagine the difficulty of helping them see the richness of the book, The Outsiders while reading at home. TO COMPLETE THE WORK, STUDENTS CAN ACCESS THE OUTSIDERS AS A PDF ONLINE THROUGH A VARIETY OF WEB SITES, FOR FREE.Page by page, UP TO PAGE 50 ONLY (the Exposition), rigorous questions are asked, either guiding their reading or assessing their understanding of details, characterization, vocabulary, inference, theme, allusion, literary
7th - 10th
Close Reading, Reading
CCSS, TEKS, VA SOL
RL.8.1
, RL.8.2
, RL.8.4
 +19
Character Traits to improve manuscript print or cursive
Each slide has two passages students may either trace (or teacher may use as models), one manuscript and one cursive. There are 6 slides from which to choose your ink shade or style. To encourage students to improve their manuscript, give them their own mechanical pencil with .7mm lead. To encourage their cursive, let them use a "fine" or "ultra fine" calligraphy pen to trace (helps in manuscript, too, but I hold it out for "more sophisticated" writers as an incentive to practice cursive). U
3rd - 9th
Other (Arts), Writing
An Argumentative Challenge - Shut Down Screens Week
This argumentative prompt is written for junior high and high school students who likely could not conceive what their life would be like without on-demand digital entertainment (adaptable to lower or higher grade levels; written for 8th grade standards). This argumentative writing prompt challenges students to remove themselves from being parked in front of a device screen all day, to reduce or eliminate device time and replace it with other, positive, activities. Perfect for a Christmas or E
6th - 12th
ELA Test Prep, Writing
CCSS
W.8.1
Friends, Foes, and Fiends! A Rigorous Curriculum Review Game
This is a review game that essentially requires students to (think critically and) come up with challenging questions to pose to their peers. The points are earned not only in having the correct answer, but in finding flaws in sentence structure, grammar, spelling, and logic within the other team's question, too. FRIENDS work in teams of 4, FOES are the teams who oppose them and FIENDS are language, logic, and grammar fanatics who pick up extra points. Depending upon the questions asked, and t
6th - 10th
Balanced Literacy, Close Reading, ELA Test Prep
CCSS
RL.8.9
, W.8.1b
The Outsiders - 180 Rigorous Questions for teens, page by page DISTANCE LEARNING
The Outsiders - Part analysis instruction, mostly study guide, here is the ultimate DISTANCE LEARNING handout to guide a teen through the book. Questions vary from basic detail, through characterization, context clues, word analysis, and fully into literary analysis. Some sections offer instruction embedded into the question. There are additional opportunities for students who might want to challenge themselves, taking on a harder "alternative" question or for those who want to tackle some of t
7th - 10th
Balanced Literacy, Close Reading, Reading
CCSS, TEKS
CCRA.R.1
, CCRA.R.2
, CCRA.R.3
 +10
Talk a Little, Tic Tac Toe Ice Breaker for Teens
Sit down! No more socializing! Students hear this all too often, but this activity harnesses their desire to move about and talk to one another in a constructive, get to know you, communications activity! Helps the teacher get to know her students as well. Sharpens critical thinking while practicing listening and speaking skills. Excellent for all types of language classes. File is NOT locked, so it is fully customizable. Can later be edited for use as a review activity, too!
6th - 12th
Other (ELA)
CCSS
SL.8.1
Caring About Character - Building character in students
Caring about character uses definitions for adolescents, offering some examples that they might recognize, and encourages better behavior through building upon these character traits. Caring About Your Character defines character as the encouragement of moral excellence, the pursuit of noble actions and positive words, and the building of a reputation worthy of modeling to those younger than ourselves. This is a colorful, animated PPT with a writing assignment and rubric attached.
5th - 10th
Character Education, Writing
CCSS
W.8.3
Figurative Languge online research assignment
Have some fun! Open the eyes of your students to the world of figurative language all around them! Turn their television watching time into reinforcement time in such a fun way! Students do some online research (guided by specific company searches) and share their findings with their friends, in and out of class! Sweet success.
6th - 10th
English Language Arts, Literature, Short Stories
CCSS
K.CC.A.3
Pennants Celebrating Students! Get to know you activity
Students love to celebrate their interests and achievements, so giving them this chance at the beginning of the year helps the teacher get to know them faster. Designed for teens, but good for grade levels 3 and up.
4th - 11th
For All Subjects, Graphic Arts
HANDY MNEMONIC DEVICE - The High 5 Objective Summary Guide.
Everyone knows that getting students to learn what makes an objective summary is not easy. This file offers a HANDY MNEMONIC DEVICE to drive the point home. It meets across the grade spectrum standards, but especially CCRA.R.2. and CCRA R.7, helping students determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas and how to read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; citing spe
5th - 11th
Close Reading, Informational Text, Writing
CCSS
RL.8.1
, RI.8.1
It's In the C.A.N. - an argumentative skills development game (via consensus!)
This is the perfect game to help students develop effective argumentative tools. Students must first reach a consensus as a small group as to which noun is best paired with which adjective, and then COME TOGETHER with those results and make a selection as a class through consensus. The main value is not necessarily to achieve consensus but to have them develop the necessary skills to support their claims for critical thinking and argumentative writing. They will match two parts of speech and
5th - 10th
English Language Arts, Writing
Don't Freak Out! A Mtn of Text tackled by skim, scan skip & speed reading pt 1
This PPT presentation addresses the assault on the affective filters of students as they face mountains of text in the new "rigorous" curriculum and national testing. Strategies are given to teach students new to intense learning that other,, more successful, students do naturally - cut through the excess and pick out what is necessary. This is especially a helpful file for students who face constructive responses that require evidence. This is one of two files to do so, each one taking a diff
6th - 11th
Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays
CCSS
RI.8.4
, RI.8.10
Quotables, Questions, and a Quest for Better Penmanship for Teens!
THIS PRODUCT HAS BEEN MOVED TO THE TPT STORE, "BrainCandy-StudyGuide" as one of the supporting files for the flagship study guide.
This product helps teachers fight for improving content or improving legibility while not losing step with curricula needs. Teachers of teens are appalled at the penmanship of students since objective testing pushed penmanship practice out of the sphere of "necessary" skills. After all, aren't we all going to just use technology for the rest of our lives?
Again
6th - 10th
Balanced Literacy, Close Reading, Writing
CCSS
CCRA.R.1
, CCRA.R.4
, CCRA.W.9
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Hack the Essay - a guide to reverse engineering an essay for essay phobic teens.
Print this as a double sided handout and it provides a glossary of writing terms, and memory devices, but its #1 purpose is for "writing recovery" of teens who are completely disengaged with essays because they are "too hard." This handout helps students write the body of an essay (first) in 10-15 minutes, then the THESIS and SUMMARY in another 2 minutes, the opening and closing statements in another 2 minutes, and then the remainder of the introductory paragraph in about a minute. If the teach
8th - 10th
English Language Arts, Writing-Essays
CCSS
CCRA.L.6
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About the store
Experience
40 years classroom experience (2 yrs high school, 31 middle school, and 7 working as a teacher's assistant at grades 1, 4, and 6).
5 years working as part of an intervention program (strategic level)
8 years ELD, 7 years as substance prevention program advisor, 14 years working with Migrant,
Teaching style
I believe that as students experience genuine achievement, they take a greater interest in increasing their own knowledge. For students to succeed, they need to see patterns in the subject matter and be given opportunities to find those patterns through whole as an overview instruction, as well as parts-to-the-whole instruction, and be given lots of repetition and visual presentations. Expect that they CAN achieve, and make lessons come alive, sneaking past their defenses, and they WILL learn - even against their will! Teach high and provide safety nets below.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Who's Who in American Teachers 2000
Jordan Fundamentals Grant recipient
Intel Teach to the Future 2001
Kern Business Alliance Educator of the Year 2002
FSD Teacher of the year 2002
Superhero Teacher 2006 (joint program of Office Depot and Marvel Comics)
One Classroom at a Time recipient 2007
Teacher of the Year 2013
District "Empowering Educators" grant award 2014
Donors Choose "Wearable Language" grant 2014
Teacher Hero, Teacher of the Month KAXL Radio (January) 2015
District Leadership award 2015
My own education history
Liberal, Business, English, CLAD, and was a part of a Common Core consortium for Rigorous Curriculum Design 2013-2014 (300+ hours creating "traditional curriculum," but I prefer creating highly visual TOOLS to support the traditional curriculum). Currently working on a masters.
Additional biographical information
I enjoy teaching. Above that even, I enjoy reaching. Most of my products are designed to fill some gap in the scaffolding of one or more of my students, All of my best files are student inspired, student desired, and teacher created.
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