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I began teaching ESL as a volunteer. I taught English overseas twice, for a total or 3 years. I've taught Pre-K through 10th grade as well as adults, either in the U.S. or overseas. The subjects I've taught are as follows: Pre-K-6 & grades 9 & 10 ESL, elementary & secondary reading & writing, world cultures and geography, Texas history, grades K-5 Japanese, reading intervention, and sociology and ESL at the university level. In addition, I have tutored students in Japanese and French. I love teaching and am a great idea person.
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Freebie! Possessive Noun Task Cards
Here are 2 short activities for students to practice singular and plural possessive nouns. I included TEKS and ELPS for 4th grade, but this also fits objectives for 3rd grade ELA, as well as 4th to 6th grade ESL students and struggling learners. 2 short activities are included -- 2 sets of task cards. There's even a 3rd activity you can try as an extension or with your gifted and talented students and high achievers. I plan to create larger sets as a paid product.
3rd - 6th
ELA Test Prep, Grammar
Sequence of Events, Setting, Characters, and Inference, with Text Evidence
This is a great activity for students to use when reading a fictional text or story or even when watching a video or listening to a story. First, students are asked to write the setting of the story, give text evidence for how they know this. Next, they are also asked to tell the characters and why they are important in the story. After that, students are asked to write 4 events in sequential order. On the back of this activity, students are walked through the process of making an inference and
4th - 10th
Close Reading, English Language Arts, Reading
Daily Check for Understanding 2: Formative Assessment/Exit Ticket, Updated
This is an excellent tool to be certain students know what they will be learning for the day and for a check for understanding at the end of a lesson. If a quiz is added to this, then it gives the added, quick, formative assessment. It can also be used to involve students in the assessment process by using the option where they write a test question based on what they learned. Using this contributes to at least an effective or proficient rating in My Learning Plan, Frontline, HTESS, TTESS, or ot
3rd - 12th
English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies
NEW! Discipline, Classroom Management, or Behavior Cards
These cards are a great resource for teachers or students to keep a record of behavior missteps in the classroom. Yes, even students can help keep track of this, to make them more responsible for their own behavior and to help increase their awareness of their own behavior. These discipline or behavior cards will give teachers and students a record of behavior in categories of misbehavior. It provides a record for teachers, students, and even for parents. There are multiple ways the cards can
1st - 12th
Classroom Community, For All Subjects
New Best Seller: Editable Check for Understanding & Exit Ticket, Updated 3/2022
Improve your evaluation score with this: New, editable Check for Understanding and Exit Ticket, updated March of 2022. This is great for teachers to quickly and easily check for understanding at the end of a lesson. It's also an excellent resource for walk throughs and observations for H-TESS, T-TESS, or whichever teacher performance evaluation system used in your district. Easily adapted to any content-area. I've sold several other versions of this, but this time I'm offering an editable one. T
2nd - 12th
English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies
TEKS
LA.6.5.F
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Daily Check for Understanding and Exit Ticket
This is an excellent tool to be certain students know what they will be learning for the day and for a check for understanding at the end of a lesson. If a quiz is added to this, then it gives the added, quick, formative assessment. It can also be used to involve students in the assessment process by using the option where they write a test question based on what they learned. Using this contributes to at least an effective or proficient rating in My Learning Plan or HTESS teacher evaluation sys
4th - 12th
English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies
Homophone Dominoes
This is a fun and engaging activity that gives students practice with homophones. There are at least 2 levels of difficulty in the homophones included. You can choose if you only want to use the easier ones or if you want to use all of them.
Everything you need is included: ready-to-print homophone dominoes, TEKS and Commom Core standards numbers, teacher prep instructions, student rules and directions for how to play the game, and even an example of what the game looks like once students begi
2nd - 5th
English Language Arts, Vocabulary
Distinguishing Adverbs from Adjectives Task Cards
This is a short, fun, task card activity that students can do in pairs or in a small group. It could be to practice the skill after it has been taught or to assess students ability to work in a group and to assess this grammar point, using these cards as an interactive tool for a quick, formative assessment.
4th - 8th
ELA Test Prep, Grammar
Plot & Inference Organizer, Updated Version
This is great for multiple grades from 3rd grade all the way up through high school and even adult education. It can be used for reading, writing, or even listening comprehension for movies and videos. This is my newly-updated version.
3rd - 12th, Adult Education
Reading, Writing
Pirate Phonics - Spelling Game, Fish for Vowel Sounds, especially /ar/
This is a fun sorting game where students distinguish between the /ar/ sound and other vowel sounds.There are multiple options for how to play the game so it ends up being several games in one. I've included blank cards so the game can grow with your students.
2nd - 6th
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Spelling
Synonym Dominoes, Part 1
This is a fun and engaging activity that gives students practice with synonyms.
Everything you need is included: ready-to-print synonym dominoes, TEKS and ELPS objective numbers, teacher prep instructions, student rules and directions for how to play the game, and even an example of what the game looks like once students begin to play. There's even a blank domino page for you to write your own synonym pairs, so the game can grow with the students.
Students love to learn while plating a game!
2nd - 6th
English Language Arts, Vocabulary
Connotation Task Cards
Here's a fun activity for students to do in cooperative learning pairs or small groups. It will give them practice and exposure to similar words with different connotations.
4th - 6th
English Language Arts, Vocabulary
Noun Suffixes List
Students can use this list to record words with noun suffixes. Encourage students to use it in any class as they learn new words, or in ELA or reading class, as well as at home to record words as they read. Students can even write words they already know because this can be used as a tool to help them understand how suffixes change the part of speech of words, therefore, changing the way the words are used. Students could even put one copy in their interactive notebooks and keep one with them.
4th - 8th
Grammar, Vocabulary
Hallway Behavior Checklist
This is a quick checklist for teaching correct hallway behavior. It can even be used by students to self-monitor: "Did I walk down the hall with my hands to myself"? Having students take responsibility for their own behavior takes education to a higher level, and is something administrators look for and teacher evaluation systems include these days.
PreK - 5th
Character Education, For All Subjects
Thanksgiving: Action Verb Turkey
This is a fun activity for kids in elementary school as Thanksgiving approaches! I recommend it for 1st through 3rd grade, but some first graders will need assistance. It could even be used for grades higher than that, especially for students with special needs or for our ESL students (ELs, ELLs). Go over what action verbs are first using lecture and anchor charts or using video clips. This is good as a review activity, or an additional activity about action verbs -- not for the first activity a
1st - 4th
English Language Arts
CCSS
CCRA.L.1
Adjective Suffixes List
Students can use this list to record words with adjective suffixes. Encourage students to use it in any class as they learn new words, or in ELA or reading class, as well as at home to record words as they read. Students can even write words they already know because this can be used as a tool to help them understand how suffixes change the part of speech of words, therefore, changing the way the words are used. Students could even put one copy in their interactive notebooks and keep one with th
4th - 12th
Grammar, Vocabulary
ESL Freebie: Important Questions and Phrases to Learn and Know
This can be for parents, children, ESL teachers, or adult learners of ESL or EFL. It's a 2-page list of important phrases and questions that every ESL or EFL student needs to know.
4th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Civics, Vocabulary
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About the store
Experience
I began teaching ESL as a volunteer. I taught English overseas twice, for a total or 3 years. I've taught Pre-K through 10th grade as well as adults, either in the U.S. or overseas. The subjects I've taught are as follows: Pre-K-6 & grades 9 & 10 ESL, elementary & secondary reading & writing, world cultures and geography, Texas history, grades K-5 Japanese, reading intervention, and sociology and ESL at the university level. In addition, I have tutored students in Japanese and French. I love teaching and am a great idea person.
Teaching style
I love using cooperative learning work stations as much as possible. I often use them for targeted-intervention in response to data.
Awards & shining teacher moments
As a high school student, I earned 1st place in the regional PTSA writing competition 2 years in a row. Also in high school, I won the Bronze medal in the Academic Decathlon Fine Arts category at the state level. I was selected to participate in the Rotary Club Student Exchange Program to Germany.
2 years in a row I earned awards of excellence in French while at the University of Texas in Austin. I also won Honorable Mention in the Japanese Speech Contest while at university. In addition, I even had one of my poems published in the Sam Houston Review when I was in graduate school.
My own education history
Master of Education in Teaching English as a Second Language from Grand Canyon University
Graduate Studies in Sociology at Sam Houston State Universiy
Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology with a minor in French from the University of Texas at Austin
Additional biographical information
I'm a highly creative person, raised by an artist and art professor mother who comes from a family of artists.
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