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STEM Challenges for use with LEGO® or Building Blocks:120 Task Cards/Journal

By Tales and Teacherisms

Hands-on activities with building blocks challenges for the win! Engage and motivate kids on the daily basis! Use for morning tubs, recess bins, STEAM/STEM time, and at-home or distance learning! Your students will be begging for more!Enjoy 120

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Robotics, Engineering

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

GATE, Printables

$3.75

500

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Life Skill of the Week for Elementary Students: 42 Life Skills Posters

By Tales and Teacherisms

Life skills are SO important in elementary school! We are always surprised by what our students come to school knowing (or not knowing), and many of these pieces of information are important to the health and safety of our youngest students.Try

Subjects:

Life Skills, Child Care, Classroom Community

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

Types:

Printables, Bulletin Board Ideas, Posters

$3.75

Digital Download PDF (0.28 MB)

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Quick Words Student Books for Personal Writing Dictionaries, Personal Word Walls

By Tales and Teacherisms

Personal dictionaries for students! Each page has some commonly used words that start with that letter - much more manageable than big, bulky dictionaries. There are also lines for students to add their own words. Ideal for Writer's Workshop,

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Creative Writing, Writing, Writing-Essays

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Not Grade Specific

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Printables

$3.75

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The Hope Chest by Karen Schwabach Novel Study (Focus on Written Response)

By Tales and Teacherisms

The Hope Chest is included in the Engage NY fourth grade ELA modules. This is a novel study that can accompany that unit or be used in place, while still using the novel. I found that my fourth grade students needed additional background knowledge,

Subjects:

English Language Arts

Grades:

4^th

Types:

Printables, Literature Circles

$9.00

136

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Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate novel study (Focus on Written Response)

By Tales and Teacherisms

Read Crenshaw with your class today! Great for read alouds (text-dependent questions are done for you, along with supplemental independent work), independent work packets, sending home for distance learning or hybrid classrooms, literature circles,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Writing

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Printables

$4.25

135

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Encouragement for Testing:SECRET Parent/Family Notes for Students on Testing Day

By Tales and Teacherisms

This is an exciting way to encourage your students to do their best on days of testing at school! I do this every year to give positive support to my students during stressful testing. Each day during testing, kids look forward to their words of

Subjects:

ELA Test Prep, Math Test Prep, Classroom Community

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Printables, For Parents

$3.75

Digital Download PDF (0.75 MB)

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Pax Novel Study by Sara Pennypacker- Text-Dependent Questions, Vocabulary

By Tales and Teacherisms

Pax is a memorable story that students will look forward to reading every day! Prepare for kids to beg to read another chapter! "Just one more!"Novel studies engage, motivate, and instantly hook students! Offer choice of text if possible, but

Subjects:

Literature, Writing, Reading Strategies

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables

$5.25

107

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STEM Challenges for use with LEGO® or Building Bricks : Math Stations

By Tales and Teacherisms

Building brick challenges for kids brings hands on activities to your math block. These hands on learning activities can be used in small groups or with individual students. It's helpful if each student has their own small building blocks bin (I

Subjects:

Basic Operations, Geometry, Graphing

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Printables, Centers

$4.00

129

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STEM Challenges for use with LEGO® or Building Blocks: STEM Hands On Bundle

By Tales and Teacherisms

Here are building bricks Challenges for kids, focusing on hands on activities to immediately engage and motivate learners! These building blocks challenges can be integrated across multiple subjects, morning tubs, and recess bins. You can even use

Subjects:

Basic Operations, Science, Writing

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, GATE, Printables

$10.50

157

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Grit: Teach Students Perseverance: Biography Research Project SEL Writing Unit

By Tales and Teacherisms

Introduce your students to the idea of grit and exploring a growth mindset through a research based biography project. Students will research one of twenty different famous people throughout history, learning about how they failed and persevered

Subjects:

Writing-Expository, Reading, Informational Text

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Research, Activities, Printables

$5.75

Digital Download PDF (11.93 MB)

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19 Minute to Win it Games for Kids - End of Year, Beginning of the Year, SEL

By Tales and Teacherisms

Minute to win it games for kids at school instantly add excitement to your school day! These minute to win it challenges are easy to get set up, great motivators for kids, and offer teachers minute to win it ideas for challenging your students!

Subjects:

Holidays/Seasonal, End of Year

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

Activities, Printables

$3.50

Digital Download PDF (0.84 MB)

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Hoot by Carl Hiaasen Novel Study- Text-Dependent Questions, Written Response

By Tales and Teacherisms

Instantly engage your students in a high quality text today! Hoot is interesting to kids and hooks them right from the very first page! Use this as a read aloud, novel study, or in your literature circles.What's included?This is a 60 page novel

Subjects:

English Language Arts

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Printables, Literature Circles

$8.00

Digital Download PDF (1.16 MB)

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STEM Challenges for use with LEGO® or Building Bricks STEM/STEAM Challenges

By Tales and Teacherisms

Building brick challenges for kids instantly engage your students! These daily building brick challenges for the classroom are exciting and bring out the innovation and creativity from kids! Hands on activities are motivating, perfect for any time

Subjects:

For All Subject Areas

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables

$3.50

110

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The Wild Robot by Peter Brown Novel Study Guide- Text-Dependent Questions

By Tales and Teacherisms

The Wild Robot is the endearing story of Roz, a robot who crash landed on the shores of an island. During the course of Roz's year living on the island, she adapts to life on the island, becomes the mother to a gosling, and creates life long

Subjects:

Reading, Writing, Reading Strategies

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables

$6.50

Digital Download PDF (9.55 MB)

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Greek Mythology Short Stories and Text-dependent Questions Mini Book

By Tales and Teacherisms

Greek mythology in school is always engaging for kids! Greek mythology symbols, stories, and activities (including hooking your learners with movement through around the room activities) excite your students! Who doesn't love learning about Greek

Subjects:

Short Stories, Writing, Close Reading

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Printables, Centers

$4.25

Digital Download PDF (14.18 MB)

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Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key by Jack Gantos Novel Study Text-Dependent Questions

By Tales and Teacherisms

Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key is an ideal text for engaging in meaningful discussions surrounding a high quality and thought provoking text. Kids make instant connections to this text. They share, open up to their peers, and begin to feel that

Subjects:

Reading, Literature, Writing

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Printables, Literature Circles

$6.50

Digital Download PDF (0.55 MB)

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SIPPS Beginning, Extension, and Plus Written Responses for Independent Work

By Tales and Teacherisms

PRINT AND GO! If you are using SIPPS Extension, Plus, or Beginning, you are ready for center work that will support students! Easy to use for teachers! There is work that aligns with each lesson and can be completed independently.SIPPS

Subjects:

Reading, Writing, Reading Strategies

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

Types:

Worksheets, Printables, Centers

$12.50

$11.22

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STEM Challenges for use with LEGO® or Building Blocks: Fairy Tales Literature

By Tales and Teacherisms

Building blocks building brick challenges for kids to engage them in fairy tales through literature connections are motivating for any classroom! Use these to supplement a current fairy tale unit, in conjunction with your fairy tale read aloud

Subjects:

Gifted and Talented, Problem Solving, Engineering

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool

Types:

GATE, Printables

$4.00

Digital Download PDF (15.89 MB)

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Quick and Easy Science Experiment: Create a Rubber (NAKED)Egg in Your Classroom!

By Tales and Teacherisms

This quick and easy science experiment can be set up in a matter of minutes! The actual process is a few days, but it gives kids plenty of time for observation and to see the scientific method play out. Hands on, engaging, and motivating classroom

Subjects:

Writing-Expository, General Science, Writing

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Printables, Centers

$3.75

Digital Download PDF (9.37 MB)

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$Sixth Grade Summer Review Packet: 40 days of ELA and Math,$

Sixth Grade Summer Review Packet: 40 days of ELA and Math, Summer School

By Tales and Teacherisms

Prevent the summer slide! Keep kids engaged in meaningful review activities, developed to align with skills learned throughout the school year. Best used a review, but could also be a tool for pre-teaching an upcoming grade level, re-teaching

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Math, Summer

Grades:

6^th, Homeschool

Types:

Printables, For Parents, Independent Work Packet

$3.75

Digital Download PDF (2.55 MB)

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I began my career as a Literacy Specialist, teaching K-5. I moved on to fourth grade after that for five years. Next, I taught second grade, moved to third grade, and even looped.

MY TEACHING STYLE

I believe in differentiating as much as possible, which is why I focus my teaching on small, flexible, heterogeneous grouping. I utilize a lot of center activities and I absolutely love my version of the Daily Five!

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

I have been nominated for New York State Teacher of the Year.

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

I graduated from undergraduate with a bachelors in Elementary Education and History. From there, I went on to a 14 month dual certification masters program in Special Education and Literacy.

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

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PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, Homeschool, Staff, Not Grade Specific

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English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Spelling, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Arithmetic, Basic Operations, Fractions, Geometry, Graphing, Measurement, Numbers, Other (Math), Science, Basic Principles, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Other (Science), Social Studies, Ancient History, Government, Native Americans, U.S. History, European History, World History, Arts & Music, Computer Science, Health, ELA Test Prep, Math Test Prep, British History, Geography, Other (Social Studies), Other (ELA), Life Skills, Gifted and Talented, Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Literature, Classroom Management, Professional Development, Character Education, Word Problems, Study Skills, General Science, Problem Solving, Short Stories, Writing, Robotics, Child Care, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Autumn, Mental Math, Halloween, Winter, The New Year, Valentine's Day, Presidents' Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Spring, Place Value, Tools for Common Core, Earth Day, For All Subjects, Summer, Informational Text, Coaching, Test Preparation, End of Year, Engineering, Phonics, Close Reading, Women's History Month, Classroom Community, Social Emotional Learning