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ELA Standards Posters Grades 6-8 Bundle

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Common Core Essentials ELA Bundle 6 - 8

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Academic Vocabulary ELA Game Cards

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ELA Learning Scales Bundle 6 - 8

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Comma Rules Interactive Notebook Flipbook

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Do your students know when and when NOT to use commas? Use this foldable with sports-themed mentor sentences to review comma usage with middle and high school ELA classes. These punctuation "rules" are based on style guidelines from MLA 8 and Strunk

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Printables, Interactive Notebooks

CCSS:

L.6.2a, L.7.2a, L.8.2a

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Parts of Speech Interactive Notebook

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Use foldable graphic organizers to teach and review the eight parts of speech with your middle school students. These flaps and flip books allow students to interact with their grammar notes, quiz themselves, and even to color-code pages in the

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Printables, Scaffolded Notes, Interactive Notebooks

CCSS:

L.3.1a, L.5.1a, L.6.1, L.7.1a, L.8.1a

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Transition Words Flipbook

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Use this flip book as a handy reference tool in your students' writing notebook or interactive notebook to encourage more varied and sophisticated transitions in writing. Each page includes a transition words and phrases list suited for a particular

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing

Grades:

6^th, 7^th

Types:

Printables, Interactive Notebooks, Google Apps

CCSS:

W.6.1c, W.6.2c, W.6.3c, W.7.1c, W.7.2c, W.7.3c

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Comma Rules Bundle

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Do your students know when and when NOT to use commas? Use this engaging lesson package with slide show presentation, interactive notebook reference flip book, and posters featuring sports-themed mentor sentences to review rules for correct comma

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English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

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Activities, Printables, Posters

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ELA Standards Posters 9th - 10th Grades

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Whether you need to post I will statements, I can statements, or We can, this set of posters for ninth and tenth grade English standards will have you covered! Display these student friendly language arts standards in your classroom to document your

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Back to School, Tools for Common Core

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9^th, 10^th

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Bulletin Board Ideas, Posters

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Patriotic Classroom Decor Bundle

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Go back to school with All-American decor to keep your red, white, and blue classroom looking sharp. The stars and stripes theme with denim and parchment is appropriate for general classes as well as history, civics, or government classrooms.My

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, Back to School

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Printables, Classroom Forms, Bulletin Board Ideas

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Etymology Vocabulary Project

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Use this mini-research project to explore the history of the English language, word origins, and how words are added to the language.In this enrichment lesson, students learn about word etymology, select a personally meaningful theme, and assemble a

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Vocabulary, Library Skills

Grades:

5^th, 6^th

Types:

Research, Projects, GATE

CCSS:

L.5.4, L.5.5, L.5.6, L.6.4, L.6.5, L.6.6

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Character Archetypes Posters and Graphic Organizers

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Teach mythological archetypes and the epic hero journey cycle with these graphic organizers and posters. Engage your students with examples of hero journey archetypes from Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and other popular

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature

Grades:

8^th, 9^th

Types:

Printables, Graphic Organizers, Posters

CCSS:

RL.8.9

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171

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Parts of Speech Bundle

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Provide an engaging parts of speech review for your middle school students with this unit that includes an interactive notebook, slideshow presentations, and fun grammar review activities.Parts of Speech Interactive NotebookProduct FeaturesDetailed

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Games, Interactive Notebooks, Google Apps

CCSS:

W.5.3d, W.6.3d, L.3.1a, L.5.1a, L.5.1b, L.5.1c, L.5.1d, L.6.1, L.6.3a, L.7.1a, L.7.3a...

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Common Core Essentials ELA Bundle 6 - 8

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Here are all the tools you need to organize and implement standards-based instruction in your middle school language arts classroom!This bundle includes:Student Friendly We Can Statements Posters for grades 6, 7, and 8Common Core Checklist for

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Back to School, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Word Walls, Classroom Forms

$43.50

$30.00

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ELA Standards Posters 11th - 12th Grades

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Whether you need to post I will statements, I can statements, or We can, this set of posters for eleventh and twelfth grade English standards will have you covered! Display these student friendly language arts standards in your classroom to document

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Back to School, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

11^th, 12^th

Types:

Bulletin Board Ideas, Posters

$6.00

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Farmhouse Bulletin Board Letters

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Create titles and messages for your walls or display boards with these bulletin board letters that are perfectly coordinated with your country chic farmhouse classroom decor theme. With this printable file, you will never have to go back to the

Subjects:

Back to School, For All Subjects

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

Printables, Bulletin Board Ideas

$4.00

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Historical Fiction Reading Response Journal

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For a class novel, genre study, book clubs (literature circles), or independent reading, this packet will challenge your students to summarize the text and analyze story elements using textual evidence and critical thinking. The standards-based

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Literature

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Homework, Printables

CCSS:

RL.5.1, RL.5.2, RL.5.3, RL.6.1, RL.6.2, RL.6.3, RL.7.1, RL.7.2, RL.7.3, W.5.9, W.6.9...

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Writing Compound and Complex Sentences Bundle

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Build sentence fluency in your students' writing by combining two clauses with a coordinating or subordinating conjunction to write a compound or complex sentence.Product FeaturesSlideshow presentations to introduce or review termsPrintable option

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Task Cards, Google Apps, Lesson

CCSS:

L.7.1a, L.7.1b

$9.00

$6.00

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ELA Standards We Can Posters Bundle 6th - 8th

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These student-friendly Common Core standards posters for 6th - 8th grade language arts are ready for you to print, cut, and post in your room.I created these posters based on the Common Core standards and the literature, grammar, and writing terms

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Back to School, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th

Types:

Bulletin Board Ideas, Posters

$18.00

$13.50

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Academic Conversation Prompts

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Build discussion skills among your students and encourage academic conversations. We use these booklets and posters with questions and sentence starters every day for Socratic seminars, literature circle book clubs, group project planning work, or

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Tools for Common Core, Classroom Community

Grades:

5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Printables, Posters, Google Apps

CCSS:

SL.5.1, SL.5.2, SL.6.1, SL.6.2, SL.7.1, SL.7.2

$5.00

361

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Langston Hughes Harlem Renaissance Poetry Analysis Unit Bundle

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Engage your middle school students in American poems of the Harlem Renaissance that resonate with current events. This poetry unit is based on the TPCASTT poetry analysis model: Title, Paraphrase, Connotations, Attitude (tone), Shift, Title

Subjects:

Poetry, Black History Month, Close Reading

Grades:

7^th, 8^th

Types:

Activities, Interactive Notebooks, Lesson

CCSS:

RL.7.1, RL.7.2, RL.7.4, RL.7.7, RL.8.1, RL.8.2, RL.8.4, RI.7.1, RI.7.2, RI.8.1, RI.8.2...

$17.00

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ELA Standards Posters 6th Grade

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Whether you need to post I will statements, I can statements, or We can, this set of posters for sixth grade ELA standards will have you covered! Display these student friendly language arts standards in your classroom to document your learning

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Back to School, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

6^th

Types:

Bulletin Board Ideas, Posters

$6.00

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ELA Standards Checklist 6th Grade

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While you could use this ELA standards chart for planning and documenting use of the Common Core in your instruction, it is really designed as a form for students to self-assess and track their own progress in student data folders. This classroom

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Back to School, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

6^th

Types:

Classroom Forms

$2.50

107

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Academic Vocabulary ELA Bundle

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Teach the terms your students need to know about literature, grammar, and writing to be successful in grades 6-12. This bundle provides resources to introduce, practice, and review domain-specific vocabulary for secondary ELA.What’s IncludedThis

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Vocabulary, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

Types:

Word Walls, Graphic Organizers, Google Apps

$19.00

$14.00

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

For the past ten years, I have taught a gifted ELA block for sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade students. Before that, I was the Education Director at a hands-on science center, taught middle school science, and taught fifth grade "everything but PE!" I even spent one year as a doctoral assistant teaching at the university level, but quickly decided that adolescents are my favorites.

MY TEACHING STYLE

My goal is to help my gifted middle school students become lifelong learners and problem-solvers, so I am working more and more toward forging a partnership with them in which they share responsibility for their learning. I love to provide students with challenging, open-ended, thought-provoking situations and to see their thinking just blossom.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

2010 LA Regional Middle School Teacher of the Year

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

B.A. in Elementary Education M.Ed. in Educational Technology +30 in Curriculum & Instruction and Educational Leadership

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

I live with my husband, who teaches high school history, and my teenage daughter, who aspires to be a math teacher. We also have three sons in college. When I am not teaching school or preparing lessons, I love to travel and to spend time outdoors camping or gardening.