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I taught one year of 8th grade ELA and am currently teaching 6th grade Special Education co-teach.
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Preview of 100-Word Scary Story: A Suspense Creative Writing Activity

100-Word Scary Story: A Suspense Creative Writing Activity

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Give students a creative way to demonstrate their understanding of suspense! This activity asks them to write a 100-word scary story using at least three of the four ways writers and directors develop suspense: music, setting, sound effects, and surprise. The added challenge is that the story can ONLY be 100 words! More About This ProductThis no-prep assignment is great for teachers wanting to practice suspense techniques while allowing students to practice their creative writing skills, as well
Preview of Book Club Unit: A 5-week Student-Led Group Novel Study

Book Club Unit: A 5-week Student-Led Group Novel Study

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In this Book Club Unit, your students will work in small groups to read and discuss a novel of their choice. You turn the classroom over to them and allow them to explore teacher-approved novels with their peers while developing their reading and conversational skills. More About This ProductAligned to Common Core standards, your students will engage in thoughtful discussions about characters, plot, setting, literary devices, and much more. They also complete 5 session sheets as formative assess
Preview of DIGITAL Coordinate Planes: Interactive Graphing, Distance, Reflection Practice

DIGITAL Coordinate Planes: Interactive Graphing, Distance, Reflection Practice

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Looking for a fun way to engage your students in learning about coordinate planes? This activity focuses on graphing, distance, and reflection on coordinate planes with colorful shapes and easy to move pieces. More About This ProductConcise instructions explain the different tasks your students will complete to practice graphing points, calculating distance, and reflecting points on the coordinate plane. Finish the activity by making a shape and finding the perimeter and area of it! This activi
Preview of Figurative Language Matching: Cut-and-Paste Matching Activity for Language Arts

Figurative Language Matching: Cut-and-Paste Matching Activity for Language Arts

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Your students will love going back to arts and crafts days with this simple activity to practice figurative language. Students cut out and match figurative language terms, definitions, and examples and glue them to their answer sheet to complete the activity. More About This ProductStudents will love getting to do “arts and crafts” in your class when completing this figurative language matching activity. To make it easier for students who are struggling, you can eliminate some of the terms or so
Preview of DIGITAL Thanksgiving Coordinate Planes: Interactive Graphing/Distance/Reflection

DIGITAL Thanksgiving Coordinate Planes: Interactive Graphing/Distance/Reflection

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Looking for a fun way to engage your students in learning about coordinate planes while getting ready for Thanksgiving Break? This activity focuses on graphing, distance, and reflection on coordinate planes with a holiday theme and easy to move pieces. More About This ProductConcise instructions explain the different tasks your students will complete to practice graphing points, calculating distance, and reflecting points on the coordinate plane. Finish the activity by making a shape and findin
Preview of DIGITAL Reflecting on Coordinate Planes: Google Slides Guided Practice or Review

DIGITAL Reflecting on Coordinate Planes: Google Slides Guided Practice or Review

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Looking for a fun way to engage your students in learning how to reflect on a coordinate plane? This activity focuses on reflections across the x-axis and y-axis with muted colors and easy to follow instructions. More About This ProductThis activity presents 10 questions with reflections across both axes. Concise instructions explain the tasks your students will complete with notes to help them remember how to solve reflections. This activity is perfect for in-person or online learning and will
Preview of Characteristics of a Good Teacher: A Fun, Creative First Day Activity

Characteristics of a Good Teacher: A Fun, Creative First Day Activity

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Allow students to express what they will need from you throughout the year in a fun and artistic way. Students complete five slices of a pie chart to explain what they think makes a good teacher. Then, they decorate them to be displayed throughout the classroom. More About This ProductThis fun activity is great for the first week of school. Not only does it let you know what your students value in a teacher, but it also allows you to get to see the students fun, creative sides. This activity wor
Preview of DIGITAL 100-Word Scary Story: A Suspense Creative Writing Activity

DIGITAL 100-Word Scary Story: A Suspense Creative Writing Activity

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Give students a creative way to demonstrate their understanding of suspense! This digital Google Docs activity asks them to write a 100-word scary story using at least three of the four ways writers and directors develop suspense: music, setting, sound effects, and surprise. The added challenge is that the story can ONLY be 100 words! More About This ProductThis is a digital Google Docs product that your students can type directly on! All you have to do is upload to Google Classroom for use with
Preview of DIGITAL Thanksgiving Ratios Practice: An Interactive and Fun Way to Review Ratio

DIGITAL Thanksgiving Ratios Practice: An Interactive and Fun Way to Review Ratio

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With this fun, holiday-themed digital practice activity, students will write ratios, find equivalent ratios, complete ratio charts, and calculate unit rate. This digital Google Slides activity allows your students to move and fill in all of the information they need to demonstrate an understanding of ratios while getting ready for Thanksgiving Break! More About This ProductThis is a digital Google Slides product that your students can type on and click-and-drag to solve the problems! All you hav
Preview of DIGITAL Distance on Coordinate Planes: Google Slides Guided Practice

DIGITAL Distance on Coordinate Planes: Google Slides Guided Practice

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Looking for a fun way to engage your students in learning how to find distance on a coordinate plane? This activity focuses on two different strategies for finding distance with muted colors and easy to follow instructions. More About This ProductThis activity presents two different ways to calculate distance on a coordinate plane: counting spaces between the points and using addition or subtraction with the points’ coordinates. Concise instructions explain the tasks your students will complete
Preview of DIGITAL Halloween Haunted House Maze: Interactive Fractions and Decimals

DIGITAL Halloween Haunted House Maze: Interactive Fractions and Decimals

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Looking for a fun way to engage your students in practicing converting fractions and decimals before Halloween? This activity focuses on converting fractions to decimals and decimals to fractions with a holiday theme. More About This ProductYour students will escape the haunted house maze by converting fractions and decimals and finding their path out! To mark their route, they can color the box with their answers on Google Slides or on paper. This activity is perfect for in-person or online le
Preview of DIGITAL Long Division Notes: Interactive Note-Taking or Review Activity

DIGITAL Long Division Notes: Interactive Note-Taking or Review Activity

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Broken down into easy-to-understand steps, these long division notes are great for learning the steps of long division or reviewing them at the beginning of the year! Colorful boxes will get your students’ attention and help them solve long division problems! More About This ProductStudents will begin by filling in boxes for the vocabulary associated with long division and then type the mnemonic phrase, “Does McDonald’s Sell CheeseBurgers?” to remember the steps to solve long division problems.
Preview of DIGITAL Fractions Notes and Practice: Teach Your Students to Work with Fractions

DIGITAL Fractions Notes and Practice: Teach Your Students to Work with Fractions

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In this activity, students fill in the blanks to complete the notes for simplifying, converting, multiplying, and dividing with fractions. In each section, the students will complete the notes section and solve a problem step-by-step. Allow your students to review fractions before a big test or help them fill in the gaps in their understanding of fractions. More About This ProductThis no-prep activity requires that students complete notes and solve problems to demonstrate their understanding of
Preview of Brain Break Scavenger Hunt: Race to Find As Many Items As You Can!

Brain Break Scavenger Hunt: Race to Find As Many Items As You Can!

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Give your students a brain break and play this fun scavenger hunt through Google Hangouts or Zoom! Students race against each other to find the most items they can in their household! A fun and entertaining way to get everyone involved and, with two ways to score, everyone has a chance to win! More About This ProductThis product is a fun, active game that allows students to take a break from their academics and build on their relationships with you and their peers. It’s a fun, and funny, way to
Preview of QR Code Multiplying and Dividing Fractions Scavenger Hunt

QR Code Multiplying and Dividing Fractions Scavenger Hunt

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This fun, interactive scavenger hunt gets kids up and moving while incorporating their love for technology into their math activity. Students search around the room for the QR codes which lead them to multiplication and division fraction problems to solve. The first one to finish, wins! More About This ProductStudents will search around the room for QR codes that they will scan with a phone or computer camera. Once scanned, the link will lead them to a multiplication or division fraction problem
Preview of DIGITAL Ratios Practice: An Interactive and Fun Way to Review Ratios

DIGITAL Ratios Practice: An Interactive and Fun Way to Review Ratios

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With this fun digital practice activity, students will write ratios, find equivalent ratios, complete ratio charts, calculate unit rate, determine the better deal between two items, and solve proportions. This digital Google Slides activity allows your students to move and fill in all of the information they need to demonstrate an understanding of ratios. More About This ProductThis is a digital Google Slides product that your students can type on and click-and-drag to solve the problems! All yo
Preview of DIGITAL Integers Practice: Interactive Activity for Google Slides

DIGITAL Integers Practice: Interactive Activity for Google Slides

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In this interactive activity, students will complete various tasks regarding integers. Each slide presents a specific task related to integer vocabulary, absolute value, inequalities, ordering, or converting fractions and decimals! More About This ProductThis cumulative activity covers the entire Integers unit and works as a great practice activity throughout the unit or as a review before the test for middle or high schoolers. If a concept is too challenging or you want to teach it later, simpl
Preview of DIGITAL GCF, LCM, Distributive Property: A Self-Checking Activity to Practice Gr

DIGITAL GCF, LCM, Distributive Property: A Self-Checking Activity to Practice Gr

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In this quick activity, students will practice finding the GCF and LCM in basic problems and word problems. They will also practice writing equivalent expressions using distributive property. Once they have found their answer, they simply type it in the answer box and, if it’s correct it will turn green! Students love the quick feedback and enjoy working to turn all of their boxes green. Make it a competition and see who can be first! More About This ProductThis no-prep activity asks students t
Preview of DIGITAL Thanksgiving Unit Rate Practice: A Holiday-Themed Self-Checking Activity

DIGITAL Thanksgiving Unit Rate Practice: A Holiday-Themed Self-Checking Activity

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In this quick holiday-themed activity, students will solve expressions using the order of operations. Once they have found their answer, they simply type it in the answer box and, if it’s correct it will turn green! Students love the quick feedback and enjoy working to turn all of their boxes green. Make it a competition and see who can be first before Thanksgiving Break! More About This ProductThis no-prep activity asks students to solve 12 Thanksgiving-themed unit rate word problems using Goo
Preview of DIGITAL GCF Practice: A Self-Checking Activity to Practice Greatest Common Facto

DIGITAL GCF Practice: A Self-Checking Activity to Practice Greatest Common Facto

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In this quick activity, students will find the greatest common factor of two given numbers. Once they have found their answer, they simply type it in the answer box and, if it’s correct it will turn green! Students love the quick feedback and enjoy working to turn all of their boxes green. Make it a competition and see who can be first! More About This ProductThis no-prep activity asks students to solve 15 GCF problems using Google Sheets. To use this product, simply upload it to Google Classro
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About the store

Experience

I taught one year of 8th grade ELA and am currently teaching 6th grade Special Education co-teach.

Teaching style

I love finding fun, creative ways to engage students in reading and writing. I think that the best way to teach students is to give them assignments that don't feel like learning.

Awards & shining teacher moments

I have been awarded the Junior and Senior Insight Awards at the University of West Georgia in 2014 and 2015, respectively. These are awarded to students who exhibit critical or insightful approaches to the course content and make other significant contributions to the course through such activities as class discussions, presentations, and other coursework.

My own education history

I attended the University of West Georgia to obtain my Bachelor's degree in English with certification in secondary education. I also have a teaching certificate in Special Education.

Additional biographical information

I've wanted to be a teacher since I was in Kindergarten. It has always been a passion of mine and I believe that I will be a better teacher because I've been able to observe my career my entire life.