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Marshmallow Team Building: A Back to School Activity for First Day of School

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Whether you’re headed back to school or starting a new unit, this team building exercise will get kids engaged and excited about being in your classroom. The Marshmallow Team Building exercise helps teachers establish a classroom atmosphere of

Subjects:

Back to School, The New Year, End of Year

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Staff

Types:

Activities, Simulations

$2.50

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Back to School Bundle: Engaging Activities for English Language Arts Grades 6-12

By Mud and Ink Teaching

The first days of school for any middle or high school teacher can be overwhelming. This bundle of resources and activities will help you tackle the back to school season with fun, creativity, engagement, technology, and more!The first ten days of

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Back to School, Classroom Community

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th

Types:

Activities, Google Apps, Lesson

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Get to Know You Activities Vol. 1 : Letter to Your Teacher, Partner Interviews

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Back to school in ELA can be incredibly stressful, but also so much fun! Take some of the planning pressure off by using this great bundle of six lesson plans/activities for the first week of school. This bundle includes my SIX FAVORITES. Did you

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Back to School

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Google Apps, Lesson

CCSS:

CCRA.R.10, CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.3, CCRA.L.1, CCRA.L.2

$6.50

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Get to Know You Activities Vol. 2 : My Happy Place, Wilderness Survival, Poetry

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Getting to know your students during the back to school rush can seem overwhelming, but I've got you covered. These six lessons will get you started back in building relationships, setting expectations, and creating an environment of academic

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Back to School, Classroom Community

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Google Apps, Lesson

$6.50

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My One Word: A Creative, Digital Reflection Activity for ELA Writing Practice

By Mud and Ink Teaching

AN OVERVIEW:This lesson is designed to help students both set goals for the future and reflect on their past. This lesson is two parts: one, students will write and reflect, and two, students will design a piece of digital art to use as a desktop

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Vocabulary, Other (ELA)

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th

Types:

Activities, Google Apps, Lesson

CCSS:

CCRA.L.5

$4.00

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Back to School: Student Survey Digital Form for SEL, Get to Know You, Records

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Getting to know our students right away is critical to setting the foundation of our community in the first week of school. But creating a survey, getting it distributed, and then finally going through all of the responses can be a ton of work

Subjects:

Other (ELA), For All Subject Areas, Back to School

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th

Types:

Activities, Classroom Forms, Google Apps

$2.50

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Bell Ringer Digital Interactive Notebook: Using Google Classroom {Design Pack 1}

By Mud and Ink Teaching

For my entire teaching career, I have been using some form of "bell ringers" as my class warm up. For this section of class to go smoothly, the students need a place to respond to the bell ringer and for years I've been using spiral-bound

Subjects:

English Language Arts, EFL - ESL - ELD, For All Subject Areas

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Interactive Notebooks, Google Apps

$5.00

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QR Code Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs): Classroom Management System

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Managing classroom routines and procedures is something that takes high priority in my classroom. These posters contain QR codes that have answers to the most frequently asked questions that typically distract from productive class time! Include

Subjects:

Classroom Management, Back to School, For All Subjects

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

Classroom Forms, Bulletin Board Ideas, Google Apps

$3.50

Digital Download PDF (1.21 MB)

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Vocabulary Bell Ringer Digital Interactive Notebook {Grades 7-12}

By Mud and Ink Teaching

If you are looking for a productive, efficient, and independent way to get class started with bell work, then a vocabulary digital notebook is the way to go. This digital notebook can be assigned once per unit and students have bell work every day!

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Vocabulary, Back to School

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Graphic Organizers, Interactive Notebooks, Google Apps

$6.00

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Literary Analysis & Argumentative Essay Rubrics {EDITABLE}

By Mud and Ink Teaching

If you feel like taking home stacks of papers to grade on the weekends (and bringing that same stack back on Monday ungraded) is going to be your life forever - think again! This Rubric Starter Kit is exactly what you need to reshape and rethink

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Vocabulary, Literature

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities

CCSS:

CCRA.L.4

$4.00

Digital Download PDF (0.88 MB)

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Summer Reading Activity Pack: Challenge Cards, BINGO, One-Pagers, Rubrics

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Every school faces a summer reading struggle, so why not try a new approach? Gameifying reading and honoring multiple forms of literacy is an important step toward creating a vibrant reading culture at your school and this activity pack is aimed at

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Back to School, End of Year

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Games

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.3, CCRA.R.10

$7.00

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The Adventure Journal {Dreaming, Planning, and Goal Setting}

By Mud and Ink Teaching

The Adventure Awaits! Embrace your adventurous teaching side and take your students on a 50-page journey of journaling toward self-discovery. The Adventure Journal is part bullet journal, part coloring book, part close-read, and part diary. Each

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Life Skills, School Counseling

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Workbooks, Activities

$6.50

Digital Download PDF (180.81 MB)

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Synthesis and Argument Writing: Is True Love Fantasy or Destiny?

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Every English teacher needs new ways to teach argument, rhetoric, and analytical writing. The Inquiry-Based Synthesis Essay is here to save the day!This argument essay is designed to help you out in a quick fix OR to teach in-depth rhetorical

Subjects:

Writing, Writing-Essays, Valentine's Day

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Assessment, Lesson

CCSS:

RI.9-10.1, W.9-10.1

$5.00

Digital Download PDF (0.56 MB)

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Class Jobs Gallery Walk Lesson with Job Application for Back to School

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Looking for a way to teach responsibility and create a classroom community of collaboration? Here are nine class jobs and, even better, a real-life job application!In the secondary classroom, monitoring classroom jobs can be tedious, but this is a

Subjects:

Life Skills, Classroom Management, Back to School

Grades:

8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th

Types:

Worksheets, Google Apps, Lesson

CCSS:

W.9-10.10

$3.50

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Curriculum Map Template {Middle & High School Humanities}

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Having clearly mapped out units for the school year is critical in my practice, but I never quite found the right map to match my style and personality as a teacher. This curriculum map was designed by me, at the time, a 10-year veteran teacher,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, Professional Development

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Unit Plans, Reflective Journals for Teachers, Professional Documents

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Mini Classroom Library: Setup, Templates, and Labels {EDITABLE NATURE THEME}

By Mud and Ink Teaching

When I moved schools, I knew it was time for a classroom library makeover. When you've been at a school for over ten years, you tend to accumulate quite a few books. I knew it would be impossible to move them all, AND I also faced the reality that

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Classroom Forms, Posters

$3.50

Digital Download PDF (0.83 MB)

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Virtual Socratic Seminar for Distance Learning {Digital & Editable}

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Creating opportunities for student-centered discussions both in a live classroom and in a digital learning environment is a necessary component for building critical thinking. This takes socratic seminars that are traditionally done in the live

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Informational Text

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Lesson

$4.00

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Words of Encouragement: Interactive Bulletin Board

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Relationships matter and finding new, creative ways to do that in the classroom is a priority for me. That's why I created the Take What You Need bulletin board and station area in my classroom! Here, I provide students opportunities to take

Subjects:

For All Subject Areas, Back to School, Classroom Community

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Staff

Types:

Printables, Bulletin Board Ideas

$2.00

Digital Download PDF (5.04 MB)

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Student Assignment Calendar

By Mud and Ink Teaching

After years of teaching, one pattern that I see consistently lead to student success is ORGANIZATION. My students who have all of their materials, submit assignments on time, and keep track of their assignments are the ones who feel the most

Subjects:

Life Skills, Study Skills, For All Subjects

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

Types:

Assessment, Printables, Classroom Forms

$3.00

Digital Download PDF (1.22 MB)

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My Favorite Get To Know You Activities: Building Authentic Relationships

By Mud and Ink Teaching

Going back to school means getting to know a whole new crew of students. This can be a very challenging thing to do, especially knowing how much work and time it can take for those relationships to be genuine and based on trust.This video takes

Subjects:

Classroom Management, Back to School, Classroom Community

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

Activities, Assessment

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I have been discovering the amazing mysteries and joys of language arts with 10th and 12th grade students in West Chicago for the past five years. Teaching has been my passion since I was a little girl playing school in my basement.

MY TEACHING STYLE

My teaching style would best be described as "discovery in the making". I approach each day with my students with an open mind and a hope to get side tracked into great, authentic discussion about literature, writing, and the world we live in. To learn more about my classroom, visit my blog! http://mudandink.blogspot.com/

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

I am a 2004 Golden Apple Scholar award winner and two time speaker at the National Character Education Forum. I am passionate about raising curious, driven, worldly, and caring young men and women!

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

I attended Illinois Wesleyan University from 2004-2008 and received a bachelor's degree in English. I later attended Concordia University Chicago from 2010-2012 and received my ESL certification and a Master's in Curriculum & Instruction.

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I am happy to create custom products for you! Please inbox me for any ideas or projects that you have in mind and I'd be happy to work with you to create something challenging, creative, and linked to the Core!

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PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Homeschool, Staff, Not Grade Specific

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English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Science, Social Studies, U.S. History, World Languages, Spanish, Arts & Music, Art History, Visual Arts, Drama, ESL-EFL-ELL, ELA Test Prep, Other (ELA), Life Skills, Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Literature, Classroom Management, Professional Development, School Counseling, Study Skills, Cooking, Short Stories, Writing, Asian Studies, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Autumn, Halloween, Winter, The New Year, Valentine's Day, Martin Luther King Day, Black History Month, Spring, Products For TpT Sellers, For All Subjects, Informational Text, End of Year, Close Reading, Women's History Month, Classroom Community, Hispanic Heritage Month