Reading Rox
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Clearwater, Florida, United States
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Together our experience covers over thirty years in Middle School. General education, special education/dropout prevention and reading. Currently co-teaching remedial reading in grades 6-8, also serving as Team Leaders, committee chairs, and grant writers.
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Guide to Writing Grants
Curious about grants and how to write successful ones? Over the years we’ve been awarded nearly $20,000 in various grants! This product highlights five of our award-winning narratives, in their entirety, for you to read and edit for your own use. We’ve also included a brief list of funding sources, supply lists, tips and outlines to follow so you can write your own successful grant proposals. The five narratives in this product were funded for: art supplies, MakerSpace items, flexible seating
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TIMEOUT documents for improved Classroom Management *Back To School*
This packet includes everything you need to either send a student to timeout or accept a student into your room being sent for timeout. The grab-n-go nature of these documents will assist you with your classroom management, minimizing the time taken away from instruction while remedying the situation. Contents of this packet include: Reproducible timeout passes Timeout assignment sheets (with and without CHAMPS) Timeout location signs Parent notice Reading Rox specializes in materials to engage
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About the store
Experience
Together our experience covers over thirty years in Middle School. General education, special education/dropout prevention and reading. Currently co-teaching remedial reading in grades 6-8, also serving as Team Leaders, committee chairs, and grant writers.
Teaching style
Our style is rather unconventional. We use a balanced literacy model of centers and rotations, motivate our students with fieldtrips, reading on beanbag chairs, and once a year they get to throw water balloons at us! It is challenging to keep kids interested in reading, given all the distractions and options and gadgets and testing in their lives! Getting kids to try a book and realize it was "pretty good stuff" is a fabulous outcome of this job! Having them come back for more? Priceless!
Awards & shining teacher moments
Celebrate Literacy Award "BOOK-A-PALOOZA"
Hillsborough County Council of IRA 2014-15;
Teacher of the Year 2014-15 (Karen)
Teacher of the Year 2021-22 (Sara)
Teacher of the Year 2022-2023 (Sara)
Technology in Reading Grants awarded from DonorsChoose and Hillsborough Educational Foundation
My own education history
Sara: Southern Illinois University BS Elementary Ed 2004
Karen: University South Florida BS Special Ed 1989; MA Anthropology 2001
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Our goal for Reading Rox is to develop high quality materials for teachers needing something a little "different". Our students need a little extra motivation, worksheets and lessons with visual appeal. We are always on the lookout for fresh material that will hook our students’ attention. So much of what we find out there is so gosh darned cute, but not to our students! Ladybugs and polka dots don't cut it! Soooo….we’re creating a line of reading materials and teaching supplies that are edgy and modern and might just be what your students need to keep going.
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