NEVER STOP LEARNING
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Michigan, United States
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YouTube Lessons: https://www.youtube.com/c/CarolMcNally
Mom of four;
Granny to six ;
Sunday school teacher 10+ years ;
Public school teacher (Title 1, middle school ELA regular education and support classes) 20+ years...retired ;
Literacy Coach ;
Instructional Coach ;
School improvement team member for nearly all of my teaching career;
Author of significant amounts of ELA curriculum for my district, most recently a revision of 6,7, and 8 regular and advanced/accelerated ELA curriculum and supporting documents/materials aligned with CCSS;
Currently ELA teacher in of our district's advanced/accelerated program;
Fellow: National Writing Project
Adjunct Professor: Western Michigan University
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DEAR JOHN… A lesson in the pragmatics of reading
This activity gives students of any age authentic practice with implementing the tools that sophisticated readers use to interpret text. Lesson includes step by step lesson plan, visual aids, student activity sheet, reading definition stickers page, reflection and rubric. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.5 Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole. CCSS.ELA
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English Language Arts, Reading
CCSS
CCRA.W.7
Graphic Organizers
This bundle of 12 graphic organizers to promote deep processing is available now from Never Stop Learning. Designed to be photocopied black and white, these handy student forms offer style and organization to students' notes and analyses. Graphic Organizers included: •Alphaboxes •Text Survey •Double Venn Diagram •RAFT Development Planning Sheet •Independent Reading Log •Book Pass Recording Sheet •Personal Record Keeping Journal •Blank Rubric •Text to Text Compare/Contrast Comparisons •Text to
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Close Reading, Informational Text, Literature
CCSS
W.8.2b
, W.8.7
, W.8.9
First Days of School Name/Picture Activity
Get to know your students and help them get to know each other! This activity allows your students to present themselves as individuals. It includes choice and creative components and would be suitable for any grade level! Students name and meaning of name are displayed on activity sheet. Students respond to a choice of prompts (informational writing) and choose to add design elements to the sheet that individualize their short autobiography.
Not Specific
Visual Arts, Writing-Expository
CCSS
CCRA.W.10
, CCRA.SL.6
"Somebody Wanted But So" Summary Reading Strategy
This summary reading strategy (Beers) can be adapted for use with fiction (and biography) for students of all ages. Note: this is an AFTER reading strategy. (After the book, or after each chapter.) “Somebody Wanted But So” = SWBS By arranging specific plot elements, students learn to analyze and summarize stories. Younger students can use this strategy to summarize picture books. Older students can use this strategy to analyze and summarize specific characters in a book, specific chapters in
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Reading Strategies
CCSS
CCRA.R.1
, CCRA.R.2
, CCRA.R.3
Descriptive Writing Power Point
This power point presentation is meant to accompany the teaching video on my YouTube channel available at this link: https://youtu.be/ZXk-jcP9L_Y Concrete examples from Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" are used to illustrate how writers can use these approaches to revise writing to be more descriptive: imagery simile metaphor allusion alliteration explanations definitions appositives
Not Specific
Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Writing
CCSS
CCRA.W.2
, CCRA.W.3
, CCRA.W.4
+1
Study Strategy: Elaboration - - A Handbook of Examples and Ideas
This handbook, which details the activities and approaches I detail in my YouTube video, Study Strategy: Elaboration Study Hacks for Learners Part 2, goes IN DEPTH to describe and show how elaboration can be used as an effective study strategy. ELABORATION is modeled with the concept of elaboration itself and numerous examples of classroom and student work are show explicitly in photos and annotation.
Not Specific
English Language Arts, For All Subjects, Reading Strategies
CCSS
CCRA.R.1
, CCRA.R.2
, CCRA.R.4
+7
Close Reading, Literary Analysis, Critical Literary Analysis Comparison Chart
These terms for approaches to text are often used interchangeably; however, these are different approaches as I show you on this chart. This chart is basically for teachers. It details what is the same and different about these three approaches.
Not Specific
Close Reading, For All Subjects
CCSS
CCRA.R.1
, CCRA.R.2
, CCRA.R.3
+6
Study Skills Handbook: Elaboration, Distinctiveness, and Making Connections
Companion to my Youtube video series on study strategies. This handbook in no way exhausts the different ways elaboration, distinctiveness, and making connections can be used to study and to learn. These are all examples of strategies in action from my own classroom. Elaboration strategies can take many forms, but is always involves going DEEPER and uncovering MORE information about facts, words, ideas, skills, concepts, or texts. Distinctiveness strategies help students strive to make clear co
Not Specific
For All Subjects
CCSS
CCRA.R.1
, CCRA.R.2
, CCRA.R.3
+10
How Parents Can Help Developing Readers At Home -
Watch the tutorial on you-tube for FREE: https://youtu.be/jXX-WgHODAw Parents often ask, “How can I help my young reader” or, “How can I help my struggling reader at home?” This is a strategy that any parent can implement at home to help developing readers of any level. The strategy supports growth in the following areas if implemented with consistency over time. How this activity supports CONFIDENCE: • Because we talk over what the story is that goes along with the picture, and the teacher ac
Not Specific
English Language Arts
CCSS
CCRA.R.10
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About the store
Experience
YouTube Lessons: https://www.youtube.com/c/CarolMcNally
Mom of four;
Granny to six ;
Sunday school teacher 10+ years ;
Public school teacher (Title 1, middle school ELA regular education and support classes) 20+ years...retired ;
Literacy Coach ;
Instructional Coach ;
School improvement team member for nearly all of my teaching career;
Author of significant amounts of ELA curriculum for my district, most recently a revision of 6,7, and 8 regular and advanced/accelerated ELA curriculum and supporting documents/materials aligned with CCSS;
Currently ELA teacher in of our district's advanced/accelerated program;
Fellow: National Writing Project
Adjunct Professor: Western Michigan University
Teaching style
Constructivist: I believe that students learn best when they set their own learning goals and discover information for themselves. I use inquiry learning in my classroom as a structure for learning about the time periods from which literature emerges. My classroom is built around individual choice in reading and writing.
Awards & shining teacher moments
2004 Excellence Award for a Professional Development Program - Michigan Association of School Boards;
2008 Annual Recognition Award for Educational Equity - American Association of University Women
My own education history
Bachelor of Science: Business, WMU;
Teaching Certification k-8, English & Language Arts, WMU;
Master's degree: English, WMU;
Certification in Gifted Education, Purdue
Additional biographical information
My focus is on equipping students with strategies for learning. Learning is not remembering;, it is not doing; it is not completing. Learning is developing automaticity with skills and owning concepts to support their journey and success in higher level academics.
I want to support teachers as well with excellent literacy materials for teaching and learning.
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