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I taught in South Carolina Title I Schools for ten and a half years. My first two years were spent teaching a 4th/5th grade multiage homeroom. I taught Math, Language Arts, and Science. I taught Science Lab for five years before returning to a looping 4th/5th grade classroom, teaching Math, ELA, Science, and Social Studies. I have taught Gifted and Talented Math for five years. Having taught Everyday Math for eight years, I have flipcharts prepared for almost every fourth, fifth, and sixth grade lesson. Please contact me if you would be interested in those. I have since gone on to teach in Georgia and Colorado, focuing on STEM education.
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Learning Contract Template
Looking for a way to differentiate your teaching for your gifted learners? One great way to provide your students the content they need at their level is to lead them in an independent study. Using this document, you can help your students identify an area of interest and supplement it with goals you'd like them to integrate. Using this document allows you and your student to agree from the onset about due dates and acceptable behavior, thwarting off-task time from the beginning. All parties
3rd - 12th
For All Subjects
5th Math CCSS STEM Performance Task: Play-Area Pavers
This CCSS Performance Task is a four part task modeled after Smarter Balanced test questions. Students engage with four questions which build upon one another under the guise of developing the pavers a fast-food restaurant chain will use to remodel the playgrounds at their locations.
The fourth task in this activity can also be used to assess concepts about coding that students may have learned through a STEM initiative, but prior experience with coding is unnecessary for success in this activ
5th
Basic Operations, Geometry, Math Test Prep
Telling Time Using the Hour Hand
Do your students frequently tell you it's 8:57 when the clock actually reads 7:57? This lesson will help! When my fourth and fifth graders frequently read an analog clock wrong any time it displayed a time in the second half of an hour, I developed this method to help them tell time accurately and confidently. This bundle includes a 13-page interactive flipchart used to teach the method. The 5-page .pdf file includes a student sheet that allows them to practice matching the hour hand's posit
3rd - 5th
Math, Math Test Prep, Measurement
Running Records Generic Form
Between IRIs or F&Ps? Need some data to inform instruction or to take with you to a SIT Team/IEP meeting? Grab a Running Records Generic Form off your stack and ask the student to read out loud to you, right from the book he or she is currently in the middle of, right where he or she is. No need to provide specific texts (unless you need to in order to support/disprove a hypothesis you're harboring)! Informal Running Records allow you to cater your instruction to your learners, keep an updat
K - 6th
Balanced Literacy, Close Reading, Reading
Classroom Job Application - Beginning of the Year
Looking for a quick way to "hire" classroom helpers? Allow students to fill out one of these! Throughout the year, I ask students to fill out progressively more detailed, more real-life, job applications at the beginning of each quarter, but this is where I start off with my fourth graders. Students are paid with Class Cash for doing their first job (learning) and for doing their second job (Electrical Engineer, Personal Assistant, Sustainability Specialist, etc.). At the end of the year, st
3rd - 5th
Fill-in-the-Blank Sub Plans - MS Word
Right after you call Subfinder/Aesop/your principal, download this file! This file is a Word Document and is totally editable. Print as-is and circle options and fill-in-the-blanks to make it quick and easy to prepare a set of plans your substitute can use to present your content, manage your students, and ensure everyone's safety in the event of an emergency. Not in such a hurry? Open the document in Microsoft Word and use the prompts to help you prepare your plans digitally! Instructions for t
PreK - 6th
For All Subjects
Measure & Make Santa and Snowperson
Need a great way to help students practice their measurement skills? Looking for a way to keep your math students engaged the week before Winter Break? Want to increase your students' ability to read carefully and follow directions? Look no further!
This resource gives step-by-step directions for creating a Santa face or a Snowperson face using rulers and protractors. Students practice reading carefully, measuring in centimeters, measuring in inches, drawing angles with protractors, naming line
4th - 7th
Math
CCSS
4.MD.C.5
, 4.G.A.1
, 7.G.A.2
Dotty Decimals - Decimal Multiplication Game
Students struggling with fluency with decimal multiplication? This always-changing game adds a dose of competition to help them on their way! This game uses a deck of cards to provide the numerals and a bingo chip as a decimal point to allow students to create the numbers they're multiplying. The use of a coin toss adds a bit of randomization to keep kids thinking about the values of the numbers they're using and what the operation does to those values. While the game is compatible with Ever
4th - 6th
Basic Operations, Decimals, Place Value
CCSS
5.NBT.B.7
, 6.NS.B.3
Fill-in-the-Blank Sub Plans - PDF
Right after you call Subfinder/Aesop/your principal, print this file! Quickly circle options and fill-in-the-blanks to easily prepare a set of plans your substitute can use to present your content, manage your students, and ensure everyone's safety in the event of an emergency. Instructions for the regular classroom teacher are bolded to help you make sure you include all the important information/items. Even includes a final page for the substitute to fill out to let you know how the day went!
PreK - 6th
For All Subjects
Book Report Book Pages
Want to add a book of recommendations for students by students to your classroom library? Download this resource! Reproducible pages for fiction and nonfiction, a 5-star rating system, and a cut-and-fold "spoiler protection system" are all features of this two page file. Offset to allow for three hole punching along the left margin, these pages scaffold students in quickly creating a book review their peers can use to guide their book choices.
3rd - 5th
Informational Text, Literature, Reading
Substitute Evaluation Form or Tool - Staff Reflections on Substitute Performance
Are you a substitute teacher looking for a permanent teaching position? After over ten years of regular observations and evaluations, I've been frustrated by the lack of data collected on me as I've substituted this year. I can't imagine how frustrating that would be for a pre-service teacher! This form provides a flexible way to collect your own data that you can turn around and present to an administrator in an interview.
This tool prompts school employees to rate substitute performance acros
Biweekly Reading Log
Trying to keep tabs on whether your students are actually doing their 30 minutes of reading every night? Want an easy way to sneak in some CCSS skill instruction and support it with regular review? This reading log is what you're looking for! Printed front-to-back and three-hole punched, this puts it all on one sheet of paper, minimizing the copies you'll need and the likelihood your students will have trouble keeping track of it. Each day (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Weekend) stud
4th - 5th
Balanced Literacy, Informational Text, Literature
CCSS
RL.4.1
, RL.4.2
, RL.4.3
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Settings Comparisons
Trying to meet CCSS ELA-Literacy.RL.5.3 by getting your students to compare the settings of multiple texts? Here is a great go-to resource that allows students to use this skill on any books they've read! Keep a stack on hand to serve as a regular option for a reading response or use as part of a mini-lesson to teach the skill. If your classroom or school uses Thinking Maps, all the better, but students of any background can be quickly introduced to the concept of the Double Bubble map in ord
4th - 6th
English Language Arts, Literature, Writing-Essays
Science Fair Backboard Planner
Tired of having students turn in their Science Fair project with all the headings out of order? Tired of repeating yourself over and over? Tired of explaining and re-explaining the format to parents as if it were their project? Hand out copies of this planner and students and parents should have many fewer questions! Direct students to fold the paper into thirds and they'll have a mock-up of their Science Fair board!
Science Fair Backboard Planner by Tara Crewe is licensed under a Creative
3rd - 5th
Science
Think Sheet - Scaffolded Student Reflection
When students choose not to meet your expectations, it can be really disruptive, both during their choice and as you try to talk with them about it afterwards. Incorporating elements of restorative justice, reparative consequences, and natural consequences, this Think Sheet provides students a chance to cool down and reflect on their choices while you get the class back on track. The conversation you have afterwards is often a lot calmer and more productive after you've both had an opportunity t
3rd - 6th
For All Subjects, Social Emotional Learning
Generic PBIS Point - Token for Substitutes
Subs! Do you often step into a classroom, eager to award PBIS points/tokens/cash/gold/stars/whatever to your class, only to find out they're nowhere to be found? Carry some of these little slips of joy with you to every job and never miss a chance to catch someone being good! Especially helpful if you substitute in multiple schools, this PDF file includes 9 copies to the page of these generic rewards. Simply photocopy onto colored paper, cut into 9 coupons, fill out the details, and sign your na
Not Specific
Character Education, For All Subjects
Brain Labels
To help our students stay organized, we set up a "brain" in their School Life Binder. In addition to their school-issued date book/agenda, we turn four folders inside-out and label them to help the students stay organized. This product includes a .pdf to print 3 sets of labels per one page of Avery 5160 labels.
To use: Collect four inexpensive (no prongs!) folders per student. Fold each inside out. Use a large three-hole punch to punch a set of holes on the opposite side of the folders from
Not Specific
English Language Arts, Math
Half-Sheet Interest Inventory
"Do you know enough about me to teach me?" --Stephen G. Peters
"[They] don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." --John C. Maxwell
Get to know your students fast by using this Interest Inventory. This is a great activity for the first day of school. Once you have an idea of your students' interests, you can use that information when making math problems, creating the sentences to frame your spelling words, or just in talking to your students.
I always gave an interest
3rd - 12th
Genius Hour Accountability Sheet
Just introducing your students to Genius Hour? Using this graphic organizer helps keep your kids on target (asking fewer questions about directions and more insightful questions about what they're learning) and gives you the ability to visually track who is on-task, who might be off-task and needs redirection, or who might be stuck and needs help.
3rd - 6th
Informational Text
My Very Own Words Collection Sheet
As students find words they want to know in the books they read, I have them add them to their list of their "Very Own Words." In this manner, I can tell at a glance IF they're reading at home and if they're reading for meaning or just turning pages. I can also quickly assess the difficulty of the books they're reading independently based on the quality of the words students are mining from them. This sheet works as a reading log for me, giving me the ability to have conversations with my stu
2nd - 5th
Informational Text, Literature, Vocabulary
CCSS
RL.3.4
, RL.4.4
, RL.5.4
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About the store
Experience
I taught in South Carolina Title I Schools for ten and a half years. My first two years were spent teaching a 4th/5th grade multiage homeroom. I taught Math, Language Arts, and Science. I taught Science Lab for five years before returning to a looping 4th/5th grade classroom, teaching Math, ELA, Science, and Social Studies. I have taught Gifted and Talented Math for five years. Having taught Everyday Math for eight years, I have flipcharts prepared for almost every fourth, fifth, and sixth grade lesson. Please contact me if you would be interested in those. I have since gone on to teach in Georgia and Colorado, focuing on STEM education.
Teaching style
HANDS-ON! I love integrating technology and use an Interactive White Board non-stop. I had an opportunity to teach in a 1:1 iPad classroom for a year and loved it! I spend as little time as possible lecturing. We're almost always creating, experimenting, viewing, observing, manipulating, role-playing, and discovering.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Clemson University Learn, Serve, and Care Award, 2004; Discovery Education Network STAR Educator, 2008; Palmetto's Finest School - Red Cedar Elementary, 2014-2015
My own education history
B.A. Elementary Education - Clemson University 2004, M.Ed. Teaching (Science) - University of South Carolina 2013
Additional biographical information
I've spent tons of time creating my own curriculum, especially in Science. Please contact me if there's something you need that I haven't posted.
For more information about me, access to my substituting blog, or to get in touch, please visit mscrewe.weebly.com
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