Write Mo' Better
Marietta, Georgia, United States
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20 combined years of working in ESL, special education, and regular education teaching language arts and literature.
Specialized in language development across all domains (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) using the whole Bloom's taxonomy, baby. Hands-on activities, singing, moving, games, Ted Talks, etc.
Currently editing psychoeducational reports for private psychologists.
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Paragraph Writing by Classifying Details, Grades 3 to 5
This extensive resource connects classifying and whole-to-part thinking in teaching paragraph writing. If you have students who freeze at the sight of a blank page, the activities in this little book will get them started -- and keep them going. Concepts covered include: topicstopic sentencesbreaking down the topic into parts (details)thinking in categories to generate topic ideasSix main activities are supplemented with extension ideas, picture cards, a word search puzzle, and more.
3rd - 5th
English Language Arts, Writing-Expository
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Experience
20 combined years of working in ESL, special education, and regular education teaching language arts and literature.
Specialized in language development across all domains (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) using the whole Bloom's taxonomy, baby. Hands-on activities, singing, moving, games, Ted Talks, etc.
Currently editing psychoeducational reports for private psychologists.
Teaching style
I always wanted to make kids comfortable with challenge, so I used humor a lot (maybe too much?) and an individualized approach.
Even though I'm not in the classroom anymore, I still want to help kids become better writers so that they become confident writers as adults. Pretty much everyone has to write sometime, whether it's an essay about how you spent your summer or a police report explaining how three drivers got into an accident.
Awards & shining teacher moments
I was honored with something in grad school, but I don't remember what it was called. Phi Kappa Delta, maybe? Then there's that unresolved dispute with some Eastern bloc judges over the bronze medal in a thesis sentence competition...
My own education history
BA in English; MA in Special Education; Certificate in teaching ESOL;
Certificate in technical writing
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