Reading Rox
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Clearwater, Florida, United States
About the store
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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Text Evidence Sentence Starters
Super easy to use, these sentence starters assist students when asked to cite their evidence. Easy to make into a poster, laminate and hang in classroom; copy for students to place in their interactive reading/writing notebooks. ✔ Check out all of the other **Freebies** we offer! Reading Rox specializes in materials that will engage reluctant readers.
4th - 7th
Balanced Literacy, Close Reading, Reading Strategies
CCSS
W.5.1
, W.5.1b
, W.7.1
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Make Your Own Questions
After reading an article, students can create their own questions to share with partners. Easy-Medium-Hard question stems included, based off of Bloom's Taxonomy.
Reading Rox specializes in materials that will engage reluctant readers.
✔ Check out all of the other **Freebies** we offer!
5th - 8th
Reading, Reading Strategies, Writing
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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
Additional biographical information
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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