I taught 2nd grade for six years, 3rd grade for two years, junior high for three years and now I am in the wonderful world of middle school and having a blast with environmental and spatial technology!
This set includes:
3 reading non-fiction passages
3 pages of multiple choice and open response comprehension questions
1 compare and contrast page
1 December holiday research page
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If you need to engage your students with a little baseball excitement, this is the set for you!
Included in this set:
2 page passage for Yadier Molina- St. Louis Cardinals
1 page multiple choice questions 1 page open response questions
2 page passage for Brian Wilson - Los Angeles Dodgers
1 page multiple choice questions 1 page open response questions
2 page passage for Derek Jeter- New York Yankees
1 page multiple choice questions 1 page open response questions
1 page passage for Matt Kemp- Los
This unit can be used with any state in the United States. My home state is Arkansas, so that’s what my students did. I have an Arkansas PBL listed on my tpt page as well if you want one more specific to Arkansas!
Remember, with project based learning the STUDENTS are responsible for their OWN learning. You will give them the outline and project concepts, but they will research, discuss, and work as a team to complete and produce their products.
I left our schedule fairly similar to the
This short story about a football players day before his first game is a great way to get your football fanatics interested in reading for information. There is an assessment that follows the story with three short answer open response questions and then five multiple choice questions.
Use it in whole group, small group, or as an assessment to work on citing evidence from the text.
If you use the book White House White-Out, then this unit is for you! I have included:
1 opinion writing page
1 character analysis page
1 page for finding facts in a fictional book
1 page about being a detective
2 vocabulary pages
1 problem, clue, solution page
1 opinion page and author's purpose page about the story
2 pages of multiple choice comprehension questions
2 pages of open response comprehension questions
1 answer key page
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This set goes perfectly with your A to Z Mysteries The Castle Crime study!
This set includes:
setting, theme, conflict, resolution page
clues and reasons page
2 suspects pages
comparing characters
vocabulary page
historical fiction fact finder page
illustration page
wanted poster
2 pages of multiple choice comprehension questions
1 page of open response comprehension questions
This is the complete set that includes the football reading comprehension freebie I previously posted. There are three stories and an assessment that follows each story. Each story goes through the day in the life a football player, up until the first play of the season! There is an assessment that follows each story with three open response questions and five multiple choice questions. Keep the rigor in your reading and keep those football fans interested in reading!
Use this set to enhance a literacy lesson using the fun Jerry Pallotta book, Who Will Haunt My House on Halloween?
Many pages from this book can be used with MANY other Halloween books that students love!
This set includes:
1 story elements graphic organizer
1 SWBST graphic organizer
1 character description graphic organizer page
1 character parts of speech page
1 realistic and not realistic events comparison page
1 multiple choice and open response page
3 halloween writing prompts pages
Use this Arctic Animal Reading Comprehension in your classroom to get students interested in reading and writing about Arctic Animals!
This set includes:
3 passages about Arctic Animals
3 comprehension pages with multiple choice and open response questions
Right in time for the World Series! Get your kids excited about reading with this Baseball Reading Comprehension Set with Assessments for each passage. Great for citing text evidence!
Use this lesson while you read I Wanna Iguana! This can be used at various grade levels to introduce persuasive writing. Students will try to persuade their parents to buy them a new pet.
You can use this set to research and write about the human body system of your choice!
This set includes:
A graphic organizer for researching and collecting information, a graphic organizer for creating a five paragraph expository paper, and paper to use when you are ready to publish.
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Get ready to score a touchdown with these challenging math word problems! These are great to to get your football fanatic students involved and interested in math problem solving.
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This is a great writing set for using adjectives and making your writing super scary! In this set you will see how I read aloud two books and focus on adjectives and descriptive details. There is a graphic organizer to use while reading, a graphic organizer to use while organizing the three paragraph paper, and published paper for the final product.
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This set contains three informational text passages about three famous Native Americans; Tecumseh, Pocahontas, and Geronimo. There is also a comprehension page for each passage which contains three open response questions and four multiple choice questions.
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This reading comprehension set includes passages about three women who are currently making history.
Gabrielle Giffords, Diana Nyad, and Malala Yousafzai
This set includes:
3 reading passages all 2 pages long
3 pages of 8 multiple choice questions
3 pages of 2 open response questions
2nd - 5th
Informational Text, Reading Strategies, World History
Use this set to enhance your students writing! Great for teaching expository writing using topics, like baseball, that students are interested in!
This set includes:
11 graphic organizers on different past and current baseball players including: Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Jackie Robinson, Mark McGuire, Ozzie Smith, Rollie Fingers, Yadier Molina, Matt Kemp, CoCo Crisp, Derek Jeter, and Brian Wilson.
2 pages for prewriting a five paragraph expository paper
2 publishing pages
1 writing rubric scoring
In this set about bats there is a graphic organizer to use as a research guide for researching about bats, a graphic organizer for pre-writing an expository paper on bats, and paper to use for publishing.
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I taught 2nd grade for six years, 3rd grade for two years, junior high for three years and now I am in the wonderful world of middle school and having a blast with environmental and spatial technology!
Teaching style
I believe in a student centered learning environment. Questioning is the basis of a great classroom. Knowing my students strengths and weaknesses is very important to me. I set very high expectations for all students and I don't ever lower them.
Awards & shining teacher moments
2008 Community involvement award Terrell ISD
Teacher of the year 2012
PTA foundation teacher award 2014 Harrison
PBS Learning Media Digital Innovator for the State of Arkansas 16-17
2017 Lemelson MIT Excite Award Winner
2017 & 2018 Samsung Solve for Tomorrow state finalist
2019 NSTA SeaWorld Environmental Educator of the Year
My own education history
Bachelors degree in early childhood education from the University of Central Arkansas
Additional biographical information
I love sports, spending time with my family and friends, and shopping.
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