Mrs. Smith's Classroom
I've been a teacher for over 30 years. I've taught grade school, high school and adults in Canada. My favourite part of the job is developing my own content specifically simplifying complex concepts through visuals. In recent years, I've been researching tools such as mindfulness that can help teachers and students stay resilient. In my store, I offer mostly visuals and activities that I use in my own classroom. They can be used as posters or handouts whatever suits you as a teacher. I hope you can find what I've created useful.
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Activities in this package offer educators practical solutions to avoid or decrease emotional
exhaustion. They provide simple tools to enhance a sense of well-being and awareness of
emotional reactivity. Built on the core practices of mindfulness, positive psychology, and
behavioural change principles, these activities provide educators with step-by-step
guidance to manage their everyday stressors. -
This package includes 14 visuals describing different types of writing. Each visual includes a short description of the writing style followed by examples.
1. The Memoir
2. Opinion writing
3. Narrative
4. Short Writing
5. Journal
6. Poetry
7. Parts of News Report
8. Short Story vs. Personal Narrative
9. Summarizing
10. Summarizing vs. Retelling
11. Expository vs. Informational Writing
12. Narrative Perspective
13. The 5 Paragraph Essay
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This package consists of visuals to help students improve their writing skills. These skills are valuable for grades 7-12, higher education and 6+CLB levels.
1. Checking Reliability
2. Visual Story – a checklist
3. Research Plan Checklist
4. Understanding the Assignment
5. 5 Ws and H
6. KWL Chart
7. Draft
8. An Annotation Guide
9. The Rhetorical Triangle
10. A Topic Sentence
11. A Narrative Perspective
12. Thesis Statement vs. Topic Statement
13. The Thesis Statement
14. Generating Ideas
15. Graphic Organizers -
This package consists of 14 visuals the teacher can use teaching the short story unit. It is designed for grades 9-12. Teachers can use them as a poster or a handout. It includes:
1. Parts of a Story
2. Short story vs. Personal Narrative
3. Characteristics of a Story
4. Theme vs. Main Idea
5. Plot
6. Characterization
7. Character Traits
8. Webbing Graph
9. 5 Ws and H
10. Addition/Concession
11. Onomatopoeia
12. Similes
13. Symbolism
14. A Pun