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Winter Wonderland Game Pack Diphthongs

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The One and Only Ivan - Quick Writes

By Melissa Fijal - Tales of a Teacher

This resource features 15 engaging quick writes to use with the novel "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate. These prompts are ideal for post-read aloud sessions or within small group literature circles.Students respond to the text with 12

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Writing

Grades:

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

Types:

Worksheets, Printables, Centers

CCSS:

RL.3.1, RL.4.1, RL.5.1, RL.6.1

$3.00

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Rapid Automatic Naming Bundle

By Melissa Fijal - Tales of a Teacher

Bundle and save! This bundle contains two products: Rapid Automatic Naming Drills and Tracking Sheets Rapid Automatic Naming Sound Cards and ActivitiesTogether you will get 25 unique rapid automatic naming sheets including letters, numbers, colors,

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English Language Arts, Special Education, Phonics

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

Assessment, Centers

$8.00

$7.20

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Rapid Automatic Naming Trial and Tracking Sheets

By Melissa Fijal - Tales of a Teacher

Track your student's automatic naming success with this Rapid Automatic Naming (RAN) product, featuring 11 drill sheets and two versatile tracking sheets spanning a time range of 10 to 80 seconds. For flexibility, the drill sheets include:2 sheets

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English Language Arts, Reading, Special Education

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Not Grade Specific

Types:

Assessment, Centers

$4.00

Digital Download PDF (6.39 MB)

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Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement, Third Edition - Editable template

By Melissa Fijal - Tales of a Teacher

This COMPLETELY editable testing evaluation template works for the Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement, Third Edition (KTEA-3.) These templates has made writing assessments so much easier for me! This product contains two versions of the same

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Special Education, Other (Specialty), School Psychology

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Not Grade Specific

Types:

Teacher Manuals, Assessment, Professional Documents

$3.50

Digital Download ZIP (0.22 MB)

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Activity Companion for D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths

By Melissa Fijal - Tales of a Teacher

This bundle is an activity companion for the D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths. I have temporarily removed "growing bundle" from the title. There will be more updates to this product, but unfortunately this won't be edited until later this school

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Short Stories

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Lesson, Centers

$3.50

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Rapid Automatic Naming Sound Cards and Activities

By Melissa Fijal - Tales of a Teacher

Rapid automatic naming speed is a strong indicator of future reading abilities in the area of fluency. This product contains 14 rapid automatic naming sound cards including:2 with all short vowels, 2 with long vowels (1 with vowel teams and 1 with

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English Language Arts, Special Education, Phonics

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Not Grade Specific

Types:

Assessment, Centers

$4.00

Digital Download PDF (8.19 MB)

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Compliment Cards for How Full is Your Bucket for Kids

By Melissa Fijal - Tales of a Teacher

These compliment cards can be used in conjunction with the book How Full is Your Bucket for Kids by Tom Rath and Mary Reckmeyer. Students can be instructed on how to give a meaningful, sincere compliment. One of our class bulletin boards is titled

Subjects:

Character Education, For All Subjects

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Not Grade Specific

Types:

Activities, Printables, Bulletin Board Ideas

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About Me "Me to a Tee"

By Melissa Fijal - Tales of a Teacher

This about me page is perfect for the first week of school. Students can create a custom "tee" by drawing, coloring, and writing on it. This activity allows students to show the teacher and class their favorite things. This would be a great activity

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Back to School, For All Subjects

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Bulletin Board Ideas

$1.00

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Crazy Endings! Ending Grid Review Game

By Melissa Fijal - Tales of a Teacher

This game reinforces the endings learned in the Lindamood Bell ending grid. This game plays like the popular game Crazy Eights! In Crazy Endings! students must identify the ending of the words on their cards and match it with the ending on the card

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Special Education, Phonics

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Games, Centers

$2.50

Digital Download PDF (0.23 MB)

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Rapid Automatic Naming Star Word {BUNDLE} Complete Set 1-40

By Melissa Fijal - Tales of a Teacher

These Rapid Automatic Naming (RAN) sheets are bundled for a savings! The sheets include all sets 1-40 from the Star Word list in a popular sight word program. Each set is divided into three sheets for practice and there are 15 sheets in all. Each

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Special Education, Phonics

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Centers

CCSS:

RF.K.3c, RF.1.3, RF.1.3b, RF.2.3, RF.2.3f, RF.3.3, RF.3.3d

$24.00

$19.20

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Ending Grid Games Product Bundle

By Melissa Fijal - Tales of a Teacher

This product bundle includes 10 games created to help students review the endings of the ending grid from the Lindamood-Bell LiPS program. As this bundle grows, you will have exclusive access to the new printable games and activities that are added!

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Phonics

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Printables, Games

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Spelling Fluency Boards Gr 3 BUNDLE Units 1-6 [Wonders 2020 Aligned]

By Melissa Fijal - Tales of a Teacher

This bundle contains fluency boards for units 1-6 and can be used as a supplemental activity to practice reading and rapidly identifying spelling words in McGraw Hill Wonders 2020 version. Add these boards as an activity to your daily

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English Language Arts, Spelling, Phonics

Grades:

3^rd

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Activities

$15.00

$12.00

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$Math Operation Vocabulary Sort$

Math Operation Vocabulary Sort

By Melissa Fijal - Tales of a Teacher

This product contains four heading cards (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) and 26 vocabulary word cards. It also includes blank vocabulary cards for a customized activity. This product can be used at any grade level. Use the

Subjects:

Math, Basic Operations, Special Education

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Centers

$1.25

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The One and Only Ivan Pre-reading Activity (Making Poems)

By Melissa Fijal - Tales of a Teacher

This activity is designed as a pre-reading activity to engage students in The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate. Students will have the opportunity to work in groups and create poems based on the chapter titles. Titles are on strips and

Subjects:

Literature, Reading Strategies, Poetry

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Centers

CCSS:

CCRA.SL.1

$1.50

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The Great Paper Airplane Race: A STEAM Challenge

By Melissa Fijal - Tales of a Teacher

This simple STEAM challenge provides students with directions to create two different paper airplanes and a third of their own design or choice. Students only need three pieces of paper or construction paper and objects they can find at home or that

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Science, Engineering

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

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Activities

$2.00

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Connect 4 Ending Grid game; Endings with -ti

By Melissa Fijal - Tales of a Teacher

This Connect 4 is a review of endings beginning with -ti. Endings include –tion, -tian, -tia, -tious, -tial, -tient, and -tience. It can be used to reinforce the endings learned from the Lindamood Bell (LiPS) ending grid. This game can also be used

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Special Education, Phonics

Grades:

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

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Activities, Games, Centers

$1.25

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Disorient! - Ending Grid Game

By Melissa Fijal - Tales of a Teacher

This game is meant to reinforce the endings learned from the Lindamood Bell (LiPS) Ending Grid. This game focuses on the endings in the row i says /ee/: -ia, -ian, -ion, -ious, -ient, -ial, and -ience. Students race a timer and an opponent to find

Subjects:

Special Education, Speech Therapy, Phonics

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Games, Centers

CCSS:

RF.3.3, RF.3.3c, RF.4.3, RF.5.3

$2.25

Digital Download PDF (0.17 MB)

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The One and Only Ivan - Ivan Character Map

By Melissa Fijal - Tales of a Teacher

This product contains two versions of a character map for Ivan, one with lines and one without. The map has areas for students to take notes on Ivan's problem, character traits, things he says, actions, solution, and how Ivan changes. This map can

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th

Types:

Activities, Graphic Organizers, Literature Circles

$1.00

Digital Download PDF (0.29 MB)

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Seasonal Stories Creative Writing Growing Bundle

By Melissa Fijal - Tales of a Teacher

Introducing the Seasonal Stories Creative Writing Bundle Embark on a year-round storytelling journey with this bundle of creative writing prompts. Geared towards students in grades 1-3, this bundle will ignite creativity all year long! Right now

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Writing, Holidays/Seasonal

Grades:

1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd

Types:

Activities, Printables, Centers

$8.25

$5.78

Bundle

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Main Idea Practice - A Scaffolded Approach

By Melissa Fijal - Tales of a Teacher

This product includes categorizing and main idea activities to help students build their skills. Categorizing is a skill essential for understanding of the main idea of a paragraph or passage. Students have the opportunity to practice categorizing,

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Special Education, Reading Strategies

Grades:

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

Types:

Activities, Graphic Organizers, Centers

$3.00

Digital Download PDF (0.83 MB)

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I have been teaching for fourteen years as both a special education and regular education teacher. I am currently a grade three classroom teacher. I have spent many of my teaching years in the upper elementary grades 4-6 as well.

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MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

I am certified in both special education and elementary education (1-6). After receiving my special education certification and degree I went back to school for my reading specialist license. Through this I discovered that my passion is teaching students reading skills. I enjoy providing interventions to struggling readers so they can build their skills and become more successful and confident as learners.

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Outside of my life as a teacher, I love traveling, spending time with family, and reading.

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

SUBJECTS

English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Basic Operations, Numbers, Other (Math), Science, Special Education, Other (Specialty), ELA Test Prep, Math Test Prep, Other (ELA), Literature, Character Education, Short Stories, Writing, Oral Communication, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Autumn, Halloween, Speech Therapy, Winter, Valentine's Day, Decimals, Spring, Place Value, Tools for Common Core, For All Subjects, Summer, Informational Text, School Psychology, Engineering, Phonics, Close Reading