International educator with over 15 years experience.
I love the nuts and bolts of language teaching, but I also like communicative activities and task based learning, including simulations.
I hold a Master of Education with specializations in reading and behavior management, as well as graduate degrees in writing and education.
International educator with over 15 years experience.
I love the nuts and bolts of language teaching, but I also like communicative activities and task based learning, including simulations.
I hold a Master of Education with specializations in reading and behavior management, as well as graduate degrees in writing and education.
Product Description
This resource is one of ten standalone products targeting Middle School Writing Skills.
Each lesson focuses on a particular genre and highlights a particular textual feature.
This product ***Cause and Effect Writing*** focuses on:
• Transition words for cause and effect
Every lesson contains:
★ Model Text
★ Structural Analysis
★ Transition Words or other useful textual feature focus
★ Planning Handouts/ Graphic Organizers
★ Writing Prompts
★ Grading Rubrics
★ Teacher's Notes
Other resources/ genres in this series include:
✓ Describing a Process (Procedural Texts)
✓ Narrative Writing
✓ Describing Data (Change)
✓ Describing Data (Making Comparisons)
✓ Expressing an Opinion
✓ Cause and Effect Writing
✓ Problem and Solution Writing
✓ Persuasive/ Argument Writing (An Argument with Evidence)
✓ Informational/ Expository Writing
✓ Compare and Contrast Writing
Suitable for grades 6 – 8
Common core aligned
Multiple question types: circling & underlining, correcting, re-writing, prompts, and more!
4 categories covering essential middle school language knowledge specified in the Common Core: pronouns, verbals & verb moods, active & passive voice, and common mistakes
Great general grammar practice and review for any class
Cards also make great bell-ringers/ exit slips
7 worksheets per category (56 tasks in total)
Task recording document included
Teachers’ Answer Key Included
Also available as task cards, here!
1. The Pre-reading Survey:
This is a fun way to orient and introduce students to some of the themes and topics in the novel. Have students complete it individually, or by interviewing a friend. Some vocabulary and concepts may need to be explained.
2. Chapter-by-chapter Comprehension Questions:
These literal, inferential, and analytical comprehension questions are perfect for homework or classwork. They can form the basis of class discussions or reading journals. The number of questions ranges from 10 to 30 per chapter, depending on the breadth and depth of the content of the chapter.
3. The Comprehension Tracking Worksheets:
FOUR comprehension tracking worksheets are provided (characters, places, concepts & things; Newspeak). They help students keep track of important concepts and information in the story. They are cloze exercises with the answers provided in a textbox.
4. The Teacher Answer Key:
A thorough teacher answer key is provided.
This literacy unit is an introduction and exploration of ‘Fake News’ and other key digital media literacy themes and concepts. Students explore the world of online news and information by reading five newspapers, then reflecting and responding, and conducting their own projects and investigations.
This pack contains:
A kick-off Opinionaire (Google Drive link provided)
A list of keywords (Google Drive link provided)
Five, two-page newspapers:
The Fake News Gazette - about fake news
The Echo Chamber - about political bias
The Keyboard Warrior - about netiquette
The Data Miner - about personal data protection
The Memory Hole - about freedom of expression
Five, one-page sets of questions (3 levels) for each newspaper (Google Drive link provided)
A set of student research resources for each paper/ theme (Google Drive link provided)
Teachers Guide & Answer Key
20 Close Reading Passages and Worksheets
- Extracts from classic literature and famous folktales
- Designed for close reading
- Each excerpt stands alone as a close reading text suitable for scrutiny, critique, reflection, and evaluation.
- Texts may be used as bell-ringers, as homework or vacation
assignments, one-to-one tutoring, no-prep substitute plans, or any
other use
- Includes 3 levels of questions: main ideas and detail, language and literally devices, author's purpose, and evaluation and personal-connection
- Vocabulary rich
- Literary devices covered include: simile and metaphor, onomatopoeia, rhetoric, mood/tone, anthropomorphism, hyperbole and more
- Includes questions on text structure and point of view
- Common Core Aligned
- Answer key included
-Recommended reading levels included
Titles Included:
Urashima Taro
Rikki-tikki-tavi
Oliver Twist
Alice in Wonderland
Sherlock Holmes
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
A Little Princess
Treasure Island
Robin Hood
The Monkey’s Paw
Beowulf
Dracula
Frankenstein
Peter Pan
Around the World in Eighty Days
The Time Machine
& MORE!
- Suitable for grades 6 – 8
- Common core aligned
- Fun, playing card theme
- Multiple question types: circling & underlining, correcting, re-writing, prompts, and more!
- 4 categories covering essential middle school language knowledge specified in the Common Core: pronouns, verbals & verb moods, active & passive voice, and common mistakes
- Great general grammar practice and review for any class
- Cards also make great bell-ringers/ exit slips when printed on paper
- 14 cards per category (56 tasks in total)
- Task card recording document included
- Teachers’ Answer Key Included
- Card backs & divider cards included
Brave New World Vocabulary Quizzes! Great for quizzes, homework, or self-directed study!
Words were carefully selected to remove obstacles to reading and improve comprehension.
- Chapter-by-chapter essential vocabulary
-14 - 15 words per chapter
- Word bank provided
- Vocabulary lists provided, but available as a separate download from my shop
- Answer key provided
A bundle of these great resources for Hatchet by Gary Paulsen:
Multi-choice Quiz
Chapter Questions + Answer Key
Chapter Vocab Lists
Vocab Quizzes & Worksheets
Simile & Metaphor Worksheet
Freebie
20 *SCIENCE* Close Reading Passages and Worksheets
- Diverse range of high-interest extracts from authentic texts including fiction (short story)
- Designed for close reading
- Each excerpt stands alone as a close reading text suitable for scrutiny, critique, reflection, and evaluation.
- Texts may be used as bell-ringers, as homework or vacation
assignments, one-to-one tutoring, no-prep substitute plans, or any
other use
- Includes 3 levels of multi-modal questions: main ideas and detail, language and literary devices, author’s purpose, and evaluation and personal-connection
- Vocabulary rich
- Includes questions on text structure, word-choice, and author’s bias
- Common Core Aligned
- Answer key included
- Sample Difficulty Levels included
Topics Included:
♦Robotics
♦Camouflage
♦The Life Cycle
♦Hibernation
♦Biography - Charles Darwin, Galileo, Copernicus, Marie Curie, Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday
♦Adaptation
♦Eclipses
♦Geology
♦Alchemy and Chemistry - History of Science
♦ Number and Mathematics
Product Description
This resource is one of ten standalone products targeting Middle School Writing Skills.
Each lesson focuses on a particular genre and highlights a particular textual feature.
This product ***Describing Data: CHANGE*** focuses on:
• Adverbs, verbs, and nouns to describe change
• Interpreting and explaining information from graphs
Every lesson contains:
★ Model Text
★ Structural Analysis
★ Transition Words or other useful textual feature focus
★ Planning Handouts/ Graphic Organizers
★ Writing Prompts
★ Grading Rubrics
★ Teacher's Notes
Other resources/ genres in this series include:
✓ Describing a Process (Procedural Texts)
✓ Narrative Writing
✓ Describing Data (Change)
✓ Describing Data (Making Comparisons)
✓ Expressing an Opinion
✓ Cause and Effect Writing
✓ Problem and Solution Writing
✓ Persuasive/ Argument Writing (An Argument with Evidence)
✓ Informational/ Expository Writing
✓ Compare and Contrast Writing
Product Description
This resource is one of ten standalone products targeting Middle School Writing Skills.
Each lesson focuses on a particular genre and highlights a particular textual feature.
This product ***Compare and Contrast Writing*** focuses on:
• Transition words for comparing and contrasting
Every lesson contains:
★ Model Text
★ Structural Analysis
★ Transition Words or other useful textual feature focus
★ Planning Handouts/ Graphic Organizers
★ Writing Prompts
★ Grading Rubrics
★ Teacher's Notes
Other resources/ genres in this series include:
✓ Describing a Process (Procedural Texts)
✓ Narrative Writing
✓ Describing Data (Change)
✓ Describing Data (Making Comparisons)
✓ Expressing an Opinion
✓ Cause and Effect Writing
✓ Problem and Solution Writing
✓ Persuasive/ Argument Writing (An Argument with Evidence)
✓ Informational/ Expository Writing
✓ Compare and Contrast Writing
This resource is one of ten standalone products targeting Middle School Writing Skills.
Each lesson focuses on a particular genre and highlights a particular textual feature.
This product ***Procedural Writing*** focuses on:
• Sequence words
• Passive voice
Every lesson contains:
★ Model Text
★ Structural Analysis
★ Transition Words or other useful textual feature focus
★ Planning Handouts/ Graphic Organizers
★ Writing Prompts
★ Grading Rubrics
★ Teacher's Notes
Other resources/ genres in this series include:
✓ Describing a Process (Procedural Texts)
✓ Narrative Writing
✓ Describing Data (Change)
✓ Describing Data (Making Comparisons)
✓ Expressing an Opinion
✓ Cause and Effect Writing
✓ Problem and Solution Writing
✓ Persuasive/ Argument Writing (An Argument with Evidence)
✓ Informational/ Expository Writing
✓ Compare and Contrast Writing
Essential, chapter-by-chapter vocabulary for the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Useful for students (particularly ESL students) to look up before reading, or for the teacher to base quizzes and worksheets from. Helps students to decode meaning and facilitate fluent reading. Word-count ranges from roughly 10 - 50 words per chapter, depending on chapter length.
Chapter by chapter comprehension questions (5 - 10 each chapter) for A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park. This resource contains literal, inferential, and opinion questions.
"After-reading" exercises also included.
Ideal for use in reading logs; journals; for homework; and classroom discussions, etc.
*** Teacher answer key included ***
Essential, chapter-by-chapter, vocabulary for the novel A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park. Useful for students to look up before reading, or for the teacher to base quizzes and worksheets from.
Pre-teaching vocabulary helps students decode meaning and increases fluency and engagement.
- 30 ~ 50 words per chapter
- includes author's notes
- words listed as parts of speech
20 quizzes or worksheets (could be used as either, although some chapters lean towards activity, e.g. drawing/ word search) for every chapter in the novel Hatchet by Gary Paulsen.
> Vocabulary lists included (chapter-by-chapter)
> Usually 20 - 30 words per chapter
> 1 - 2 pages of activities per chapter
> Multimodal: Fill in the blanks, matching, labelling, crosswords, word searches, multi-choice, correction, scrambles
> Answer key included
This resource will test your students' knowledge, recall, comprehension, and analysis of the characters, themes, and major events in the novel The Fault in Our Stars.
The test is multi-modal, including:
- fill in the blanks
- matching
- short response questions
- graphic organizer
- an (short) essay [It's the last question, you have the option not to include it]
The test content covers:
- major characters, places, things
- significant plot events
- symbolism
- character relationships
- character development and conflict
Essential, chapter-by-chapter vocabulary for the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry. Useful for students (particularly ESL students) to look up before reading, or for the teacher to base quizzes and worksheets from. Helps students to decode meaning and facilitate fluent reading. Word-count ranges from 20 - 50 words per chapter, averaging 30.
Essential, chapter-by-chapter, vocabulary for the novel Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. Useful for students to look up before reading, or for the teacher to base quizzes and worksheets from.
Pre-teaching vocabulary helps students decode meaning and increases fluency and engagement.