Meredith Jones
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Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Experience teaching third and fifth grade including gifted and talented and inclusion students. Experience writing science curriculum and planning, developing, and implementing staff training.
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"Snowflake Bentley" CCSS Assessment
This is a comprehension test that may be used with the story "Snowflake Bentley" by Jaqueline Briggs Martin.
3rd - 5th
ELA Test Prep, English Language Arts, Reading
CCSS
RL.3.3
, RL.3.4
, RL.4.1
 +12
"How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning" CCSS test
PARCC aligned test for "How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning"
3rd - 5th
ELA Test Prep
How to Eat Fried Worms Close Read
Close read following reading the entire book, good to use as an assessment tool.
Prerequisite skills: Plotline (look for my plotline lesson)
Essential questions: Why are relationships important? and How do relationships and interactions between characters lead to a resolution?
Students identify how actions helped and hindered the boys.
3rd - 5th
Literature, Reading, Reading Strategies
CCSS
RL.3.1
, RL.3.2
, RL.3.4
 +6
Close Read of "The Little Prince" chapters 1 - 4
This is a lesson I taught my students, who are in third grade but it is completely appropriate for older students. Students will identify generalizations of grown-ups then complete a close read of the text, locating examples of generalizations.
This lesson includes a lesson plan, differentiated instruction, and photos/examples of my class work.
3rd - 7th
Literature, Reading, Short Stories
Roald Dahl Unit Lesson 1
This is a close read of Chapter 1 from "James and the Giant Peach" in which students analyze the setting. There are also small-group lessons for "Matilda" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" that connect to the lesson and have students compare settings.
3rd - 4th
Close Reading, English Language Arts, Literature
Great Kapok Tree CCSS aligned assessment
This test is for the end of the Kapok Tree unit.
3rd - 5th
ELA Test Prep, Literature, Reading
CCSS
RL.3.2
, RL.3.3
, RL.3.4
 +12
The Great Kapok Tree Close Read
This is a close read to use on Day 4 of The Great Kapok Tree. Included is a lesson plan, assessments/posters, and pictures of my student work. There is also a mini-plan for Days 1 - 3.
3rd - 5th
Reading
The Little Prince vocabulary Chapters 1 and 2
Vocabulary organizer for student so fill out. Including identifying the prefix, suffix, and base word, using context clues, writing a definition, and a picture to show the word. Also included are vocabulary cards to hang on your word wall.
3rd - 8th
Literature, Vocabulary
Vocabulary Little Prince Chapters 3 and 4
Vocabulary development- some sentences for context clues are the sentence FROM the text, some are not.
3rd - 7th
Vocabulary
The Little Prince PARCC-style assessment
For use at the end of teaching the novel.
4th - 7th
ELA Test Prep, English Language Arts
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About the store
Experience
Experience teaching third and fifth grade including gifted and talented and inclusion students. Experience writing science curriculum and planning, developing, and implementing staff training.
Teaching style
For reading, I mainly use a whole group to small group approach in a two-book classroom. For math, I use the same whole-to-small group approach and centers.
In math, my students explore to find the correct method then we discuss and practice. I use the 5E lesson planning template to plan and implement my math lessons. Additionally, I use assessments to plan centers weekly or biweekly for students to enrich, practice, or have a reteach of skills.
In reading, depending on the skill, I have my students try to figure out how to solve a problem or use a strategy on their own and then we practice with graphic organizers and writing. Many times I teach a skill whole group and then students work independently using the skill in a seperate text. During this independent time I pull two or three groups to work with the skill in the text that they are reading.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Walmart Teacher of the Year 2006
Chosen STEM liason to help guide our school and provide support in the changeover to the Common Core Curriculum
My own education history
Loyola University Maryland, BA in Elementary Education
Johns Hopkins University, Certificate in Teaching the Adult Learner
Currently completing a MA in Curriculum and Instruction at Loyola University Maryland
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