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English Learner Accommodations by Domain and Proficiency Level (fully editable)

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This is an excellent one-page reference that offers a menu of differentiation strategies by domain (listening, speaking, reading, writing) and proficiency level (beginning, intermediate, advanced, and advanced high) to help English learners/

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ESL / ELL / EFL, For All Subjects

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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, ...

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#Emoji Response to Reading

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This quirky response to reading gets pre-teens and teenagers to interact with the text on a #thoughtful level. I used it with seniors who were reading Huck Finn and they got a kick out of it. You could hear them giggle as they thought of a

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English Language Arts, Reading

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

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THANKSgiving Thank You Letters

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This lesson provides a mentor text and a prewriting activity to help students choose a person to write to. It then breaks down the process of writing a sincere, meaningful thank you letter for students including sentence starters. This is a one to

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English Language Arts, Writing, Thanksgiving

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

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PowerPoint Presentations, Thematic Unit Plans

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Irony Presentation and Activity to Complete with "The Andy Griffith Show"

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The kids love the interactive, image-heavy presentation AND the old black and white show. They will laugh the whole lesson; they will totally understand all the forms of irony, and they will beg for more Andy Griffith!Please note that the episode of

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English Language Arts, Reading, Drama

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

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Unit Plans, Activities, Lesson

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Forced Analogy POETRY- Characterization and Critical Thinking- Any Story

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Can be used for characterization with any story, or characterization of historical figures. See the example product below: Katniss Everdeen Katniss is like an arrow. She’s a valuable weapon and tool in a battle, and she doesn’t break

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English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, Writing

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

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STAAR Expository Essay Prompt Writing Template With Example Prompt

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Use this template to write your own expository essay prompts. The template follows the formatting of a STAAR prompt, so students will be familiar with the format when they see it on the test.

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ELA Test Prep, Other (ELA)

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4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

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Assessment

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Non-Fiction Dice Activity

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This is an assignment that can be used with any Non-Fiction text. Students create the die according to the directions, then switch with a partner and complete each other's work. Students will roll the die to determine which four (out of the six)

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English Language Arts, Informational Text, Close Reading

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Not Grade Specific

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Activities

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Christmas Gift For Students... Homework Pass! Fully Editable PPT File

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See Preview. :) Stickers not included...

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Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa

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Not Grade Specific

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Positive Feedback Sentence Stems to Encourage Specific Praise of Peers' Writing

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The title says it all. :)

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English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing-Essays

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

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Lesson

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Prewriting for Personal Narrative by Thinking of Shoes! Any Grade

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Students start with their shoes, then list where they wear them, what they do in them, and who they are with. Magically, students are able to quickly list memories. The trick is to time them. Give them one to two minutes per box. :)

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English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

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Activities, Lesson

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Prewriting for Personal Narrative with Sentence Stems Any Grade

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Students will easily come up with a topic for their personal narrative using these sentence stems. :)

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English Language Arts, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

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Lesson

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Personal Narrative Revision Tool Includes Mentor Text Examples Fully Editable

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Please check out the preview file for free! One of the struggles in having students write a paper is leading them to revise and edit for specific purposes. Well, I have created a magic bullet for descriptive personal narrative revision! This chart

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English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Writing

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

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Graphic Organizers

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Tone, Mood, Topic, Theme, Symbol, and Shift Any Story or Poem Fully Editable

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Use this with any short story or poem that includes characters, even student choice. I like to walk students through this rubric once at the beginning of the year, then assign a new one every six weeks to keep them sharp!

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English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

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

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Homework, Rubrics

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20% Project Explanation AND Rubrics Project Based Learning

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Here is the explanation I am handing out to parents and students. of course, every document in this file will need to be edited to adhere to your classroom, school and district policies. Also, feel free to check out my free preview file which

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For All Subject Areas, Instructional Technology, Oral Communication

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7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Homeschool

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Research, Syllabi, Rubrics

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Access My Personal Comprehensive SAT Vocab. Website: Vocab for the Entire Year

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YOU CAN TRY THIS BEFORE YOU BUY IT. Download the preview file. :) Anyone can look up SAT words online, right? After finding the words, there is a lot of work to do. I ALREADY DID IT. I am selling access to the private link to my SAT Vocabulary

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Vocabulary, Computer Science - Technology, Test Preparation

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

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Internet Activities

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ANY Poem! Comprehensive: Diction, Tone, Mood, Topic, Theme, Symbolism, Etc STAAR

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ANY Poem - Comprehensive Poetry Assignment - Addresses: Diction, Tone, Mood, Topic, Theme, Symbolism, Imagery, Shift, Writing Response, Etc. This assignment can be used to lead students to achieve a broader understanding of any poem- no matter how

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Poetry

Grades:

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

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Handouts, Homework

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Storyboard Soundtrack Rubric ANY BOOK

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This assignment can be completed with any novel, biography, autobiography, or history book. I often use it as an SSR (Silent Sustained Reading) Response assignment. Students will identify the elements of Plot Development for the purpose of creating

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Short Stories

Grades:

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

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Homework, Literature Circles, Rubrics

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Teach Tone, Mood, and Paraphrasing Using The Raven by Edgar A. Poe HALLOWEEN!

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Teach an engaging, high interest lesson on tone, mood and paraphrasing using "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe! This flexible lesson plan can be used with cooperative groups and includes links to audio and video to use with "The Raven," as well as the

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English Language Arts, Gifted and Talented, Poetry

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

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Activities, Graphic Organizers

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Attendance Cards: Procedure to get work to students who have been absent.

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The Problems: -When students are absent, they forget to ask for their work, or you forget to give it to them, or a combination of these. -When students do ask for their work, they ask at a time when you should be teaching the whole class or

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Specialty, For All Subjects

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Not Grade Specific

Types:

Bulletin Board Ideas

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

10 Years

MY TEACHING STYLE

Kids do the work, I facilitate.

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Hector P. Garcia Middle School, Northside ISD, San Antonio, TX Teacher of the Year

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Master's in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, the University of Texas at San Antonio

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