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If You Take a Mouse to the Movies Elementary Lesson Plans
Elementary teachers can use the children's book If You Take a Mouse to the Movies to teach students language arts and math lesson plans.
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Megan Sheakoski is the Primary School Feature Writer for Suite 101. She writes and blogs about elementary education topics such as lesson planning, teaching strategies, and classroom management. She is also the Raleigh Family Entertainment Examiner for examiner.com.
Megan spent the first six years of her career as a special education teacher in Pennsylvania. She has taught many things, from special education in a rural elementary school to SAT Prep at an urban high school.
Megan has two Bachelor of Arts Degrees from Wilkes University, one in Psychology and one in Education, and a Master of Arts Degree in Reading Education from Marywood University. She is certified in Special Education K-12, Elementary Education K-6, Family and Consumer Sciences K-12 and as a Reading Specialist K-12.
Megan was member of the board for the Northeast Pennsylvania Reading Association and the Scranton Area Special Olympics and is currently an active member of the International Reading Association. In 2005 Megan wrote the second grade safety curriculum, "Bee Safe" for the Scranton Police Department.
Megan's Editor's Choice Award-Winning Articles
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- Teach Kids to Write and Ask Interview Questions
- Caterpillar Butterfly Math Lesson Plan
- How to Teach Nouns to Elementary Students