School by Danette
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Michigan, United States
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I began my educational experiences in high school when I worked with a latch-key program. When I first graduated from college, I was the director of a Head Start and a Migrant Head Start program in northern Illinois. My first public school teaching position was as a seventh grade Language Arts teacher.
I took a year off to begin my family but felt a draw back to school. At this point my family had moved to Michigan. I was offered a position as a Reading Specialist at a 5-8 middle school. After a few years, I transferred to an eighth grade classroom and am now in a sixth grade classroom at the school. I feel all of my experiences have made me the teacher I am today, and I think of my job not as a job, but as my ministry.
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Poster - Pronouns 6.L.1 (full lists of different kinds of pronouns)
I created Writing Power Standards to use in my classroom, and this was a second poster I created to help with the Pronoun Power Standard. The first poster is more focused on personal, possessive, and intensive pronouns, explaining also about antecedents and vague antecedents.
If you are interested in the Writing Power Standards, follow me. I will put them up after I test them in my classroom.
4th - 8th
English Language Arts, Grammar
Poster - Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
My students can never remember which words are prepositions and which aren't. This poster helps them. It not only lists the commonly used prepositional but also shows students that prepositional phrases must begin with a preposition and end with an object.
4th - 8th
English Language Arts, Grammar
Poster - Verbs
My students have a difficult time with verbs. This poster helps them understand that all verbs are action verbs or linking verbs. Within that, it lists many action verbs and all state of being verbs. Within state of being verbs, it shows that there are helping verbs and linking verbs with examples of each.
The part of the poster that I like best is the "Imposter" portion, which are called verbals. Students get so confused with participles, gerunds, and infinitives. This poster defines and
4th - 8th
English Language Arts, Grammar
Poster - Adverbs
Adverbs confuse most students. They don't understand what they do and why they do it. This poster clears up those confusions.
My students also wanted a list of adverbs for reference. This poster gives them that reference along with the places adverbs are found, an explanation that most adverbs end in "ly," and the four questions that adverbs answer in a sentence. The reference list of adverbs is broken into the four different questions adverbs ask.
4th - 8th
English Language Arts, Grammar
Poster - Glue Words - Subordinating Conjunctions
When I teach complex sentences to my students, I use this poster as a reference list for the subordinating conjunctions.
I use the term "glue words" because it is easier to remember and explains what these words do. [Subordinating conjunctions (glue words) are the glue that combine the dependant clause to the independent clause in a complex sentence.
If a sentence begins with a glue word, it needs a comma after the dependant clause to help glue the sentence together. (After she finished the
4th - 8th
English Language Arts, Grammar
Spelling Curriculum for Sixth Grade (aligned with Common Core)
Over the years, spelling has been put on the back burner. People are convinced that computers can take care of everything, including spelling mistakes. However, some employers use spelling to see if employee candidates have basic skills. In most jobs, basic spelling is needed. In addition, since spelling has been taught less and less, my students’ spelling skills have diminished more and more. Each year, more students come to me not being able to even grasp basic homophones. Moreover, most
6th
English Language Arts, Spelling
CCSS
L.6.1
, L.6.2
, L.6.2b
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Poster - State of Being Verbs
My students have a difficult time with State of Being Verbs.
All of the verbs on the poster are state of being verbs.
Helping verbs are included in the circle.
All of the verbs on the poster are linking verbs; it is just the ones in the circle can be linking verbs if they stand alone OR helping verbs if they help an action verb.
4th - 8th
English Language Arts, Grammar
Foreshadowing Examples and Exercises for The Giver by Lois Lowry
Foreshadowing is defined as a warning or indication of a future event. I truly believe that when people can see foreshadowing in literature, films, and even life itself, they have a better level of understanding for these genres. Furthermore, foreshadowing causes students to ask questions, which helps them to monitor their own comprehension.
For that reason, when I begin a novel with the my students, especially if it includes many examples of foreshadowing, I give each of my students a small s
7th
English Language Arts, Literature, Reading Strategies
CCSS
RL.7.1
RESPECT model of expectations with pictures and keywords
This RESPECT model supplies a common language of exactly what respect means when modeling appropriate behavior in schools. It also reflects appropriate behavior choices for lifelong learners. Each letter has a picture and theme relating to respect with the expected behavior. Because of the pictures, it could be used in as young as Kindergarten classrooms and as old as high school classrooms or hallways.
PreK - 12th
Character Education, For All Subjects
Tuck Everlasting Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing is a hint the author gives the reader about events that will happen later in the book. This document sequences foreshadowing examples (including the chapter they occurred) with the events they foreshadowed (including the chapter they occurred).
5th - 8th
Literature, Reading, Reading Strategies
Poster Bundle - Parts of Speech
This includes a bundle of parts of speech posters: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs, conjunctions (both coordinating and subordinating), interjections, and prepositions.
All eight parts of speech are represented.
4th - 8th
English Language Arts, Grammar
Poster - Appositives (especially Nonrestrictive/ Parenthetical Clauses)
Nonrestrictive/ Parenthetical clauses were confusing for my students. I created this poster to help them understand what an appositive is, the difference between nonrestrictive and restrictive appositives, and how to use commas, parentheses, and dashes correctly with nonrestrictive/ parenthetical clauses.
5th - 8th
Balanced Literacy, Grammar
Argument Sample Paper with pointers
Ever need a good sample to show your students as they begin the process for a 5-paragraph argument paragraph? This document has a copy of a paper with its Bibliography at the bottom for its first page. The next two pages has pointers that show the students different things they should include in their papers, such as: introduction with lead and claim; body/content paragraphs with topic sentences, telling sentence, showing sentences with evidence, and wrap-up sentence; conclusion paragraph with
5th - 8th
English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Essays
CCSS
W.5.1
, W.6.1
, W.7.1
 +1
Language Arts Power Standards (CCStandards)- Daily Warm-ups for Grade Six
These Power Standards come to you after working with the literacy coach from my district, getting suggestions from other writing teachers, and implementing them in my classroom for one and a half years.
Eight different Power Standards:
Power Standard 1: Vocabulary Acquisition (L.6.4a/ L.6.4b/ RI.6.4/ RL.6.4
Power Standard 2: Verb Tense (L.6.1e)
Power Standard 3: Parts of Speech- Pronouns (L.6.1a-d)
Power Standard 4: Parts of a Paragraph (RI.5.2)
Power Standard 5: Text Types and Author's Purpo
6th
Grammar, Informational Text, Vocabulary
CCSS
RL.6.4
, RI.6.1
, RI.6.4
 +12
Visual Writing Prompts Incorporating Common Core Standards
Writing prompts are fun and essential for your students, especially if you want to incorporate writing as part of your everyday schedule. With this product, it is already done for you; plus, I have added over 200 slides in case there are a few you don't want to use.
Before you purchase it, check out the freebie with the same title, especially since the slides on the freebie are in addition to this product.
Narrative, Argument-style, and Informative/Explanatory prompts are included. For narrati
2nd - 9th
Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Writing
CCSS
W.2.1
, W.2.2
, W.2.3
 +21
Poster - Text Types with Features
I wanted a poster that my students could use to identify what they might see in a piece of writing that would help them identify the different text types. This poster narrows the text types into four categories: opinion, informative, narrative, poetry.
4th - 9th
English Language Arts, Writing
Poster - Figures of Speech L.6.5
I created Writing Power Standards to use in my classroom, and this was a poster to help my students with figures of speech. Not all 17 figures of speech are there, but eight main ones (alliteration, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, irony, personification, onomatopoeia, oxymoron) are included.
If you are interested in the Writing Power Standards, follow me. I will put them up after I test them in my classroom.
6th - 8th
English Language Arts, Literature, Writing
CCSS
L.6.5a
, L.7.5a
, L.8.5a
Tuck Everlasting novel quizzes with keys incorporating literature language
This includes 5 quizzes and keys for Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt: Prologue-Chapter 5, Chapters 6-11. Chapters 12-17, Chapters 18-22, and Chapter 23-Epilogue. Each quiz is two pages in length. Quiz questions are not knowledge-based but incorporate literature language, such as: parts of plot (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution), climax question, indirect and direct characterization, symbolism, alliteration, foreshadowing, internal and external conflict, man vs.
5th - 7th
Literature, Reading
Poster - Quotation Marks Usage
I like to use visuals to teach my students different grammar rules. When I use this poster, I have the students repeat the rules with me. After they have been exposed to it a few times, I have the a student explained what each rule means.
2nd - 8th
English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing
Argument - Time Essay - Standards-Based Lessons
I am piloting Standards Based grading for my district this year. Each day, I focus on a different standard with a skill or subskill. These lessons include many parts: Essential Vocabulary (elaborate, coherent, claim, debatable claim, caucus, relevance, commentary, plan, succinct, formal voice), Essential Question based on the term, "I can..." statement based on standard (see list of ELA standards), lesson slides (step-by step directions), Exit Slips (self-assessment for students and for you to
6th - 8th
English Language Arts, Writing
CCSS
W.6.1
, W.6.1a
, W.6.4
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About the store
Experience
I began my educational experiences in high school when I worked with a latch-key program. When I first graduated from college, I was the director of a Head Start and a Migrant Head Start program in northern Illinois. My first public school teaching position was as a seventh grade Language Arts teacher.
I took a year off to begin my family but felt a draw back to school. At this point my family had moved to Michigan. I was offered a position as a Reading Specialist at a 5-8 middle school. After a few years, I transferred to an eighth grade classroom and am now in a sixth grade classroom at the school. I feel all of my experiences have made me the teacher I am today, and I think of my job not as a job, but as my ministry.
Teaching style
I love kids! Anything that I can do to help my students learn more is something I look into and try to utilize. I actively use Thinking Maps, 6 + 1 Traits, and a collage of my own ideas meshed together. I hope you find them as useful as I do.
Awards & shining teacher moments
WGVU Cool Teacher Award (student-nominated award)
My own education history
Illinois Central College (Associate Degree);
Illinois State University (Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education);
Concordia College (Masters in Curriculum and Instruction);
classes from Central Michigan University;
classes from Ferris State University, including becoming a Fellow of the National Writing Project in 2008;
classes from Grand Valley State University;
Additional biographical information
I am a lifelong learner!
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