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6 + 1 Writing Traits

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Writing Powerful Paragraphs Lapbook and Lessons

$4.00

Opinion Writing: Letter to NASA

$4.00

Frederick Douglass Literary Analysis

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6 + 1 Writing Traits

By Collabor8

Looking for a way to introduce or reinforce the 6 + 1 Writing Traits in your upper elementary classroom? This package contains: 8 mini posters of the writing traits PowerPoint presentation of each of the writing traits Smart Notebook

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Interactive Whiteboard, Printables

$3.00

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6+1 Writing Traits for Interactive Notebooks

By Collabor8

Help students create an ever-expanding, individualized reference tool for writing skills. This interactive notebook resource combines foldables, mini anchor charts, and printables to reinforce the 6 + 1 Writing Traits. Just one of a customizable,

Subjects:

Writing-Expository, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

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

Types:

Printables, Interactive Notebooks

$3.00

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Writing Powerful Paragraphs Lapbook and Lessons

By Collabor8

Teach your students to write powerful paragraphs with this resource. We are excited to introduce the SEE approach to organizing body paragraphs as we believe it holds the key to writing paragraphs that are both organized and detailed. Our goal is

Subjects:

Writing-Expository, Writing-Essays, Informational Text

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities, Interactive Whiteboard

CCSS:

W.3.5, W.4.4, W.4.5, W.5.1a, W.5.1b, W.5.1c, W.5.1d, W.5.2a, W.5.2b, W.5.2c, W.5.2d...

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Close Reading: The Secret Service-Life in the White House Set #1

By Collabor8

How much do your students know about the Secret Service and the nuclear football? This close reading informational text resource will challenge your students and teach them interesting information at the same time. Close reading strategies,

Subjects:

Government, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Printables

CCSS:

RI.5.1, RI.5.2, RI.5.3, RI.5.4, RI.5.5, RI.5.6, RI.5.7, RI.5.8, RI.5.10, RI.6.1, RI.6.2...

$5.00

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Opinion Writing: Letter to NASA

By Collabor8

So you want to be an astronaut? This activity is a motivating way to encourage students to write an opinion piece. They read articles about astronaut selection and training and then apply to NASA to become one of the newest astronaut candidates.This

Subjects:

U.S. History, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

CCSS:

W.5.1a, W.5.1b, W.5.1c, W.5.1d, W.5.2a, W.5.2b, W.5.2c, W.5.4, W.5.5, W.6.1a, W.6.1b...

$4.00

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Close Reading Informational Text: Presidential Inauguration

By Collabor8

This middle school resource illuminates the behind-the-scenes story of the presidential inauguration. Full of interesting facts and differentiated articles, this will captivate your students. How many people come to view the inauguration? How does

Subjects:

U.S. History, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Printables

CCSS:

RI.5.1, RI.5.2, RI.5.3, RI.5.4, RI.5.5, RI.5.6, RI.5.8, RI.5.9, RI.5.10, RI.6.1, RI.6.2...

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Frederick Douglass Literary Analysis

By Collabor8

Increase students' awareness of a great African-American and improve analytical writing skills simultaneously with this resource. This analytical writing lesson uses an excerpt from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass to develop

Subjects:

ELA Test Prep, Writing, Black History Month

Grades:

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

Types:

Printables

CCSS:

W.6.1a, W.6.1c, W.6.1d, W.6.1e, W.6.4, W.6.5, W.6.9b, W.6.10, W.7.1a, W.7.1b, W.7.1c...

$4.00

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Langston Hughes Literary Analysis

By Collabor8

This analytical writing lesson uses Langston Hughes's short poem "Dreams" to develop students' understanding of literary analysis in a short period of time. As the language of poetry is filled with figurative language, one poem can provide multiple

Subjects:

Writing-Essays, Black History Month, Test Preparation

Grades:

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

Types:

Printables

CCSS:

W.6.1, W.6.4, W.6.5, W.6.6, W.6.9b, W.6.10, W.7.1, W.7.4, W.7.5, W.7.6, W.7.9b...

$2.50

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Year-Long Interactive Writing Notebook Grades 5-8

By Collabor8

Are you hoping to provide your students with more time to write? In this interactive writing notebook students will complete foldables that introduce key components of each writing genre: expository/informational, narrative, and opinion/persuasive.

Subjects:

Writing-Expository, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Interactive Notebooks

CCSS:

W.5.1, W.5.2, W.5.3, W.5.4, W.5.5, W.5.6, W.5.7, W.5.8, W.5.9, W.5.10, W.6.1...

$6.00

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Poetry Interactive Lapbook Using Similes: I Love You as Big as the World

By Collabor8

Using the book "I Love You as Big as the World," students create a lapbook of interactive foldables to not only become familiar with similes, but also to practice creating their own. The lesson concludes with each student writing a poem comprised

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Literature, Poetry

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Lesson

CCSS:

RL.K.5, RL.1.4, RL.1.10, RL.2.4, RL.2.10, RL.3.4, RL.3.10

$2.00

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Character Analysis Interactive Notebook Lesson or Lapbook

By Collabor8

In this lesson, students make an interactive lapbook or an interactive notebook page about characterization techniques. They will use this lapbook to record important moments of characterization from two storybooks, Dex: The Heart of a Hero and

Subjects:

Literature, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Graphic Organizers, Lesson

CCSS:

W.5.1, W.5.2, W.5.4, W.5.5, W.5.9a, W.6.1, W.6.2, W.6.4, W.6.5, W.6.6, W.6.9a...

$4.00

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Close Reading Informational Text: A President's First Day in Office

By Collabor8

Have your students ever wondered what happens the morning a newly-elected president wakes up in his bed in the White House on his very first day in office? How does the president order breakfast? How does he find out what is going on around the

Subjects:

Government, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

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

Types:

Printables

CCSS:

RI.5.3, RI.5.4, RI.5.5, RI.5.6, RI.5.8, RI.5.10, RI.6.1, RI.6.2, RI.6.3, RI.6.4, RI.6.5...

$4.00

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Valentine's Day Writing Pack

By Collabor8

Get your students excited about Valentine's Day and writing with our thematic writing pack! This product includes a craftivity and three classroom tested writing lessons that focus on a different genre of writing: narrative, informational, and

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Valentine's Day

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

W.3.1, W.3.4, W.3.5, W.3.6, W.3.10, W.4.1, W.4.4, W.4.5, W.4.6, W.4.10, W.5.1...

$4.00

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Descriptive Writing Sensory Detail Interactive Notebook Lesson and Lapbook

By Collabor8

Are you looking for fun and creative ways to teach your students to identify sensory detail and point of view? This resource does both, and also includes a writing assignment to allow students to demonstrate their understanding of sensory detail and

Subjects:

Writing-Expository, Literature, Reading Strategies

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

W.5.1, W.5.2, W.5.4, W.5.5, W.6.1, W.6.2, W.6.4, W.6.5, W.7.1, W.7.2, W.7.4...

$4.00

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Monster Descriptive Writing Interactive Notebook or Lapbook

By Collabor8

In this lesson students will develop both their descriptive writing and critical reading skills. Students will also deepen their understanding of descriptive writing techniques by creating an interactive lapbook or interactive notebook page. This

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Visual Arts

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Graphic Organizers, Lesson

CCSS:

W.3.2, W.3.5, W.3.6, W.4.2, W.4.5, W.4.6, W.5.2, W.5.5, W.5.6, W.6.2, W.6.5...

$3.00

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Characterization Interactive Notebook and Lapbook and Autobiography of a Villain

By Collabor8

In this lesson, students make an interactive notebook page or a lapbook about characterization techniques that they will use to record important moments of characterization from different stories they read. The lesson culminates with students using

Subjects:

Writing-Expository, Literature, Reading Strategies

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Graphic Organizers, Lesson

$4.00

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Year-Long Interactive Writing Notebook Grades 3-4

By Collabor8

Subjects:

Writing-Expository, Writing-Essays

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Interactive Notebooks

CCSS:

W.3.1, W.3.2, W.3.3, W.3.4, W.3.5, W.3.6, W.3.7, W.3.8, W.3.10, W.4.1, W.4.2...

$5.00

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Literary Analysis

By Collabor8

Increase students' awareness of a great African-American and improve analytical writing skills simultaneously with this resource. This analytical writing lesson uses short quotations from Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech to develop

Subjects:

ELA Test Prep, Writing-Essays, Black History Month

Grades:

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

Types:

Printables

CCSS:

W.6.1, W.6.4, W.6.5, W.6.6, W.6.9b, W.6.10, W.7.1, W.7.4, W.7.5, W.7.6, W.7.9b...

$4.00

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Close Reading Strategies Tab Book

By Collabor8

Provide your students with a quick reference guide to Close Reading Strategies. Students will assemble a tabbed book which includes strategies for each of the three reads, plus a page of symbols used for annotating any article. Its compact size will

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Close Reading

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Interactive Notebooks

$2.00

Digital Download PDF (7.14 MB)

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First Day Back to School Vocabulary Fun

By Collabor8

This PowerPoint lesson sends children home with something to tell their parents about what they learned on the very first day of school. The lesson includes 6 unique vocabulary words students can use to impress and amaze their family and friends.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Vocabulary, Back to School

Grades:

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

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Lesson

$1.00

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I have over thirty years of teaching experience including Special Education classrooms grades pre-K through 6th grade and Elementary Education classrooms grades 2 and 5. I am currently teaching 5th grade and loving every minute!

MY TEACHING STYLE

Hands-on, experience-based teaching with lots of reflection and application.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

1988 Golden Apple Recipient, El Rodeo Elementary School, Beverly Hills, California; 1987 District Teacher of the Year, Beverly Hills Unified School District; 1986 Teacher Service Award, El Rodeo Elementary School, Beverly Hills, California; 1988 nominated for Teacher in Space program; 2007 CAIS (California Association of Independent Schools) workshop presenter

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Bachelor's Degree from UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles); Master's Degree in Special Education from University of Southern California; Elementary Teaching Credential grades K-8; Learning Handicapped Credential Grades K-8; Speech and Language Handicapped Credential grades K-8.

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