Jody Shaughnessy
I am a Reading Specialist at Shady Brook Elementary School in Kannapolis. I work with students in grades K-5, providing writing and reading remediation.
Resources created by Jody Shaughnessy
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- The Alphabet Tree
- After reading The Alphabet Tree by Leo Lionni to students, the students will retell the events on a flow map. Then using Kid Pix software, each child will choose an event, illustrate it, and write a caption for it. The students will then put their events in order in a Kid Pix Slide Show they can present to the class.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By Jody Shaughnessy.
- Red-eyed Tree Frog Hyperstudio
- Students will read The Red-eyed Tree Frog by Joy Cowley then plan and put together a Hyperstudio which retells the story.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts)
- By Jody Shaughnessy.
- Snails- Fact and Fiction
- This lesson on snails integrates Science, Language Arts, Technology and Math. Teacher will share a fictitious snail story with students. Students will complete a K-W-L chart on snails with the help of the internet. As a related activity, students will take a poll on snail preferences and graph it.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Jody Shaughnessy.
- Tarantulas
- Students will read Tarantula by Jenny Feely. Then they will summarize what they have learned about tarantulas by writing descriptive words or phrases on a graphic organizer. Finally, using the Kid Pix Studio Deluxe (or other similiar drawing program), students will write sentences about tarantulas and make an illustration.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts)
- By Jody Shaughnessy.
