ParaEducate
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Davis, California, United States
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- Inclusive settings for students with mild to severe disabilities
- Elementary through high school students
- 20 years experience
- Reading intervention (Pre-K to 9)
- Math intervention (Pre-K to 9)
- Adapted History (7-9)
- Adapted Health (7-9)
- Adapted Science (7-9)
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Weekend Writing
Students with communication difficulties sometimes have trouble telling what happened over the weekend. Not all weekend updates are the same.
This update focuses on the people who went with the student and helps a student who is ready to evaluate their events of the weekend.
This worksheet is designed for students who are able to read, but may need prompts to help complete the sheet.
Encourage the student to fill in their own answer if there is not an answer they find they can use.
Eventua
3rd - 10th
Writing
Romeo and Juliet Pack for Students with Disabilities
Combining three of our Romeo and Juliet resources to help students with disabilities participate in class activities. Providing students with multiple ways to interact with class activities while Romeo and Juliet is being ready by a class helps the student have meaningful access to the curriculum which may be well above their performance grade level.
9th - 10th
Drama, English Language Arts
U.S. Coin Counting Mat
Teaching students to count coins, the mats (both counted and blank) have students put the coins (not provided) to learn to count amounts to $1.00 for dollar coins, half dollar coins, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies. You can use either real coins or plastic. Also included: a sorting chart for students who are just learning to identify coins (for quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies only).
Can be used with groups or individuals. Blank pages can be used for testing.
Each page is bare to r
PreK - 1st
Applied Math, Other (Math)
Romeo and Juliet Speeches for Students with Disabilities
All too often students while reading any Shakespeare are asked to memorize segments of famous speeches to share with their classmates. Often, the print outs or copies are single spaced and written with no room for students to annotate. This layout gives students with some disabilities to participate with their peers. In this set of fourteen speeches selected for their general popularity from Romeo and Juliet, students find all the lines numbered (instead of skipping by fives or tens), larger pr
9th - 10th, Higher Education
Drama, English Language Arts
CCSS
RL.9-10.10
, CCRA.R.1
, CCRA.R.3
+3
Also included in: Romeo and Juliet Pack for Students with Disabilities
Counting Up Rockets
For a very young child, rockets hold a lot of fascination. Often this is the first way a child might learn to count backwards. However, a student with a disability may not be able to reverse the process. "Counting Up Rockets" gives a student a chance to learn to count to ten in order and work on numerical sight words and writing.
To make this activity successful, you will need:
1 hand out of 16 pages per student (or copy half sheet size)
crayons or color pencils
pencil
scissors
glue
Students
PreK - K
Handwriting, Numbers, Reading
Bowling
PE has long been disregarded as “just the class where you run.” In truth, today’s PE classes both educate students about healthy, long term, life habits, rules for games, and cooperative teamwork. PE classes expect students to now take notes and keep track of extensive individual data.
For the bowling unit, students with disabilities, like their peers, generally excel at doing the activity. We have provided a non-fiction reading about bowling and scoring to be used with reading class or PE as
7th - 9th
Physical Education, Reading
Romeo and Juliet Character Pages
For some students with disabilities, participating in the reading of “Romeo and Juliet” seems too complex to fathom. Providing even general education students with this series of charts to help students keep track of all the relationships of characters and ultimately all the characters who did not make the end of the play. Designed in a PECS style, a student with a disability can help track characters as they come for each scene, act, or the entire play over all. This set up was designed with th
9th - 10th
English Language Arts
CCSS
RL.9-10.1
, RL.9-10.3
, RL.9-10.10
+1
Also included in: Romeo and Juliet Pack for Students with Disabilities
Pi Day Worksheets
For students who may not be in general education math and partcipate in Pi Day (in the US 3-14, in UK 7-22) a chance to get familiar with Pi's nuances, introduction to using formula with pi, circumference, diameter, radius, and other circle vocabulary. Used with students with mild to severe disabilities with direct instruction.
7th - 9th
Geometry
Run Log for Secondary
Students in secondary physical education are tracking their runs and other physical activity for their own reflection. Students with disabilities may not necessarily be able to record the activities in a journal without assistance.
This log will help a student record one of the 3 most tested runs for the Presidential Fitness Exam, times, dates, and allows for minimal reflection.
9th - 12th
Physical Education
Shape Activity
Provide students with an activity to work on fine motor skills and introductory geometry. Every page allows students to identify a different shape, write the name of the shape and identify some attributes. Targeting the use of specific vocabulary including 'side' and 'corner' Students create a simple book with their work and are able to review. Additional pages that allow the student to demonstrate some mastery of identification of shapes. Provide students the pages as needed. This activity can
Kindergarten
Math
CCSS
K.G.A.2
, K.G.B.4
My Hurricane Plan
For students in Health, Earth Sciences, or even some Life skills classes, knowing a safety plan is in place helps prepare the student in case of an emergency. Learning about hurricanes and other natural disasters is a part of the curriculum as is the appropriate response in case of an emergency.
This is a good activity for families to discuss where their after event meeting place is and people who might be good supports in case of an emergency. According to the American Red Cross and Ready.gov,
9th - 12th
Earth Sciences, General Science
Geography Location Vocabulary Writing
For students who have disabilities, sometimes general education warmups or other activities are too hard or not appropriate. Supplementing the activities with a subject related, age appropriate material is usually nearly impossible unless it is created by staff. In this collection are pages of pertinent vocabulary to introductory geography giving students a chance to work on their hand writing while using words that are being used in class. This will give the student a chance to be independent a
6th - 9th
Geography, Writing
What Can I Buy This Week?
Students often go shopping but have a difficult time deciding what they can afford in a store. This worksheet can help with that.
Students will use weekly ads from the newspaper to help them generate a list of 2 items they want, 2 items they will have to save for, and 2 items they would not want to buy on an imaginary shopping trip.
8th - 11th
Basic Operations, Numbers
Letter Poster Guide
Examining Friendly and Business Letters and Email, a concrete guide for students to follow along in creating email or letters for specific audiences. These were created as individual posters to run across at eye level for students to refer to, but can easily be used as a quick reference at a seat for students.
Letter Poster Guide was created as a presentation and has been used with many students with and without disabilities.
6th - 8th
Business, Writing
Geographic Location Icons
Have your students use the same vocabulary words their general education peers are using to describe a location with geographic location icons. Students are given maps with geographic land features highlighted. Each page is a different continent so you can keep pages as communication boards or cut out and have students choose the correct icon as necessary. Contains mountain ranges, lakes, rivers, and seas for each continent.
Continents included: North America, South America, Africa, Europe, As
6th - 8th
Geography, World History
US Vocabulary Word Writing
Some history teachers have a warm up, a writing sample to get students thinking about the concepts that will be taught that week. For a student who has a significant disability, those warm ups often are not accessible. Using vocabulary pulled from US History from Colonies to just after Reconstruction, students can work on their hand writing (usually an OT special education goal) during this time. It provides two opportunities, the first that the student "is doing something like the others", in t
7th - 11th
U.S. History
Shane Packet
Shane by Jack Schaefer, is a classic good/guy bad guy US old West novel in the Western genre. However, with this comes some interesting complications now the majority of the modern United States is no longer as close to its original agrarian roots that is detailed in the book Shane. Giving students with disabilities access to this book presents some interesting needs for adaptations. The following pages include a look at direct sequence of events for Shane and a vocabulary list. Additionally
9th - 12th
English Language Arts, Reading
CCSS
RL.9-10.3
, RL.9-10.4
, RL.9-10.5
+2
Geography By Location
Have you gotten tired of looking at the list of places your student needs to know for Geography and wondered what you can do about getting to the core of some key places and landmarks that are important on every continent? Geography by location is a list of locations that have many pictures online for you to share with your student to get them interested in the places they are learning about for history. Cities and countries were chosen based on current world events or known state standards to
8th - 10th
Geography
Figurative Language Note Sheets
Students who have executive functioning difficulties find the process of a long term assignment, like collecting figurative language from a story, difficult. These pages help students seven types of figurative language and gives each student a series of lines to quote the passages as they work on identifying the types of figurative language. While the pages are set up for by chapter, it can easily be saved as to a specific chapter activity for a student. These notes can later be used to referen
7th - 10th
English Language Arts
CCSS
CCRA.R.1
, CCRA.R.4
, CCRA.L.3
+2
Journal for COVID-19 Experiences for Students with Disabilities
Based on the prompts from the UC Berkeley History -Social Science Project, helping students document their time as history unfolds with response to COVID-19. We have provided a template for students with disabilities to document their experiences. Most of the template is choice based for students with disabilities to also address their social-emotional needs as this event occurs. For those of you on distance, this is an opportunity to have the student work with their families as this could be us
Not Specific
English Language Arts, U.S. History, World History
CCSS
CCRA.W.2
, RH.6-8.8
, RH.11-12.6
+3
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About the store
Experience
- Inclusive settings for students with mild to severe disabilities
- Elementary through high school students
- 20 years experience
- Reading intervention (Pre-K to 9)
- Math intervention (Pre-K to 9)
- Adapted History (7-9)
- Adapted Health (7-9)
- Adapted Science (7-9)
Teaching style
I'm the one that sort of sits back and watches things happen and tries to course correct as the day goes. I'm looking for ways to implement adaptations in a general education classroom and facilitating social interactions with the best technology solutions possible.
Awards & shining teacher moments
9th Annual Inclusion Institute Speaker
CSEA Paraeducator's Conference 2012/2013/2014
TASH 2012 speaker
Cal-TASH 2015/2016/2018/2019/2020/2021
AZ-WINS 2013/2019
SXSWEdu 2017
KU SOARS 2019/2020
Supporting Inclusive Practices 2021
My own education history
Renay H. Marquez
BArch: University of Southern California, 2001
Yolo Solano Teaching Program Pre-service 2017
California State University, Sacramento 2019-2024 Credential 2023 MASET 2024
Additional biographical information
Renay H. Marquez is a paraeducator. In February 2012, she published ParaEducate, a book that describes the role of paraeducators in public classroom settings with tips for behaviors, academics, and directing social interactions for students with mild to severe disabilities. Renay has been in classrooms in junior high, elementary and high school with inclusive settings for students. ParaEducate was started to help teachers and paraeducators with the varied academic needs of students with disabilities.
In 2023, Renay became a teacher for students with disabilities.
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