ELA Enrichment and Writing Coaching are two areas in which I help students by way of online tutoring. As an example, I have an 8th student from Alexandria, VA, with whom I work on his latest writing projects for school. I have another 8th grade student from Boca Raton; together, we work on poetry, vocabulary building, using my Hot Words for the SAT™ book, and lately we have been working on a medley of English grammar and usage topics.  Grammar informs writing proficiency for life and can help students perform their best on the high school and college en

Today, I wish to share some handy, PDF printable resources that focus on Commonly Confused or Frequently Confused words.  Have a look and let me know what you think.

My students like to upload to Kami™ and work on the the worksheets while sharing their screens with me.  Some print the resources, hole punch them, and keep them in their ELA binder.  

Happy for your feedback and comments. To join my email list, simply send me a note at lindacarnevaleprep@gmail.com. Happy to share my online tutoring tips and latest TPT resources with you.

Ware, Wear, We're, Where

Who, Whom, Whoever, Whomever

than, then, there, their, they're

BUNDLE: Commonly Confused Words

VALENTINE'S DAY BUNDLE ELA 6-12

Hello again and Happy New Year 2024!

My online tutoring students, who span grades 7-12, enjoy celebrating the holidays,

 so I like to impart vocabulary, sentence writing and creative writing with seasonal 

exercises during our Zoom® lessons.

I wish to share with you some Valentine's Day themed ELA resources recently listed

in my TPT Store that are comprised of vocabulary bingo games, sentence writing, 

vocabulary quizzes, and writing prompts...... focused on vocabulary related to Love, Friendship and Camaraderie!

The vocabulary is at a level that can inform the reading comprehension modules of the 

SAT® and ACT® College Entrance Exams. I hope you find these resources fun and fruitful.

Valentine's Day Middle-High School English: Sonnet + Love-Friendship Vocabulary

$10.99

$13.00

Shakespearean Sonnet-Valentine's Day Love Poem Analysis +Comprehension Questions

$6.00

Valentines Day Vocabulary Activities, Sentence Writing, Quiz 6th-12th English

$7.00

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Thank you and be well,

Linda

Do you and your students enjoy poetry analysis and discussion?

If you would like to complement your poetry unit with a winter or spring themed poem, you might find these new TPT resources interesting.

My online ELA enrichment students, primarily 7th to 9th grades, enjoy poetry analysis, and I have noticed that nature poems are among their favorites!

Some of my students like to upload poems to Kami™ and share their screens while they annotate, in color-coded fashion, during our read alouds and discussions during our Zoom™ videoconference. Some prefer to print them and annotate with fine-point markers, colored pens, and highlighters.

I plan to add more. For now, I have 2 recently posted poetry guides in my Teachers Pay Teachers Shop.

Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" and Emily Dickinson's "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass."

These guides engage students on many levels, from free response to vocabulary in context to answering multiple choice comprehension questions.

Stopping by Woods

A Narrow Fellow ~ PDF Version

A Narrow Fellow ~ Digital Version

A Narrow Fellow ~ BUNDLE

Writing Centers: Posters for Bulletin Boards

Hello & Happy Back to School Season!

If, like me, you teach an essay writing, college apps personal essays, or creative writing class, you may enjoy the color & instructional content of my New Set of Writing Posters and Bundles.

Academic content and writing level can be adjusted, so these posters are suitable for all secondary English grades (ELA 6th - 12th) classes and Home School settings.

These coordinating portrait stye posters (24 inches by 18 inches) are information-rich and colorful--- they brighten the walls and/or Bulletin Boards and provide springboards for writing mini lessons on various topics that include:

• Steps of the Writing Process

• Punctuation Use: how the symbols LOOK and their FUNCTIONS

• FANBOYS conjunctions; for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so

• Transitional Words and Phrases

    Correlating & Contrasting

I like to refer to these posters when giving writing lessons, and I ask my students to take notes, using the information on the posters as the foundation for their notes and elaborating based on my instruction & and our class discussion.

Follow my Teachers Pay Teachers Shop for more time-saving, enriching resources for your classroom, students, and home school settings.

Let m know what you think of the posters...if you leave a brief review, you can earn TPT Shopping Credits $$$!

Set of 2 Writing Posters

Set of 4 Writing Posters

Set of 6 Writing Posters

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Thank you for your interest & Be well,

Linda

College Entrance Exams Update:

Bubble sheets and sharpened #2 pencils are gone ~

If you're a college admissions tutor, high school teacher, a math or English SAT™ tutor, or parent of a high school student, you are most likely aware that the SAT™ is going Digital in the US, starting March 2024. 

Students will take this college entrance exam online in an adaptive, digital format. 

In light of these changes, I have created TPT resources that tutors, teachers, and parents can use with their teens.

Come have a look and, as always, I welcome your feedback.

Digital SAT™ Answer Sheet

A few are BUNDLES, which provide more and save money.

Tutoring BUNDLE

Tutoring Forms to Keep You Organized

Although we are a screen tech society, I still use paper folders and forms to keep organized for my students and myself.  For me, paper and printouts are lifesavers!

Opt-in to my Email List to stay abreast of College Prep and admissions developments.

Be well,
Linda

My TPT Journey. ...started 7 months ago

This past November I opened my Teachers Pay Teachers English Resources shop, deciding to give it a solid year as a test run.

7 months later, I am happy I opened my store. I enjoy the creative outlet and sharing the resources I have made for my creative writing, essay writing, reading comprehension, PSAT™,  SAT™ and ACT™ students over the years. 

What's more, the Cha-chings! and buyer interest are encouraging. I even have 2 repeat customers already : )

I like having all of my resources tidy in one place and enjoy sharing them with my private tutoring students. PDF resources are easy to text, email, or slide into a Zoom chat.

Take a visit to my shop ~ I hope you can find time-saving, enriching lessons and guides for use with your English students and/or the students you tutor.

Linda Carnevale ~ English Resources

As vocabulary is one of my favorite topics. I was excited when this New Bingo BUNDLE sold this morning:

All Seasons Vocabulary Bingo.  Tomorrow is June1, and this teacher already grabbed vocabulary activities for Fall, Winter, and next Spring....Teachers are advanced planners! I bet she is planning to use the Summer Bingo with her students during these last days of school. Bundles save money and cover a breadth of topics and themes.

Please don't hesitate to opt-in to my Email List for future freebies and College Prep Tips!

Send me a note at lindacarnevaleprep@gmail.com

Be well,

Linda

November 29, 2022

Grateful to have your visit...

Are you a teacher, tutor, student, educator, and/or parent?  Would be very interested to know your role(s); leave a comment if you'd like.

With full transparency, my intention is to offer guidance and share with you enriching, edifying, skills-building English Language Arts resources that I have developed, organically, over many years of working with students online--and across time zones--as a private English tutor.  

A main purpose of this blog is to share Graphic Organizers, Strategy Sheets, and Skills-Building Activities I have made for use with my students and have just this month posted for sale on my Teachers Pay Teachers digital store.  Here is one of my indispensable favorites that inspires wonderful reading process discussion with my in-person and online SAT™ and ACT™ students:

This is a highly downloaded FREEBIE at my TPT Store:

Reading Tips Freebie

I would be grateful for your visit. These resources have been immeasurably handy & helpful for me, and I hope they can work for you and your students|tutees|children as well. Your visit and feedback are welcome ~ https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Linda-Carnevale-English-Resources.

You will find these resources handy, as I do, to text or email to your students and kids!  If you're a tutor, you can slide into Skype or Zoom chats. If you use Google Classroom, you can share and post them to your online classroom.

I have tutored students from Montauk to Malaysia to Manhattan, from California to Florida to New Jersey to Turkey to those who live around-the-block lol.... I keep a Map Marker app and am amazed where by tutoring has taken me, virtually at least : )

Bit of Background

Blessed, busy, and in business.

I am incredibly blessed with a wonderful husband, three amazing sons, supportive family, friends and neighbors and two snuggly-sweet 'doodles: a mini apricot golden doodle and a silver toy poodle.

~ busy with family, friends, home, life in general...we all are!

~ and in business for myself as a private English tutor for over twenty years.

I hold a Master of Arts in English and secondary education from Columbia University's Teachers College and have authored four SAT|ACT books for Barron's Educational Publishers. I was a former tenured teacher of English before "retiring" to raise our sons, be a homemaker (my heart passion), write, and tutor.

Over the years, my tutoring practice has reached geographical locations and teaching themes beyond that which I ever could have imagined!

Student Anecdotes*

You can get a sense of my work through a handful of anecdotes. Yesterday, for example, I Zoomed with a student from Fairfax County, Alexandria, VA, on writing enrichment. During our 90 minutes session (my standard tutoring session), he drafted an acrostics poem on the theme of self-care and wrote a heart tingling haiku about hope.  

Needless to say, it was an inspiring and fruitful session. Back story: I tutored his older brother for SAT Reading, Writing and Language followed by facilitating his common application personal statement and college essay supplements, and now his younger brother is my writing student.  Sibling referrals have been steady and fruitful.

* Herein and forward, student names are anonymous or dramatically changed.

Word of Mouth

Word of mouth has been the steadfast fuel behind my tutoring practice. I have worked through siblings (8 of 8 in one local family!), neighbors, family friends, and college roommates.

For example, later today I Skype with a student who lives 25 minutes away. We will be brainstorming|planning for his University of Richmond supplemental statement. This student was referred to me by a writing student from Bucknell University. He is the younger brother of my student's roommate. Next week, I will help this student's father to rework|revise his resume. No doubt, word of mouth referrals are the lifeblood of my business.

Another Student Anecdote: Anonymous, As Always

Later today, I have an ACT English and Reading student. He lives 25 minutes away but Zoom is most convenient for the family: the mom is a busy real estate agent and there are two other children in the family. My student is incredibly busy with school, clubs, soccer, driver's ed, and working out with a personal trainer, so online tutoring works best for him, allowing him to be comfortable at home, save driving time, and allow him to have his Yorkie (so cute!) on his lap while working through the ACT reading passages and questions... After Luke (fake name), I will be Zooming with a longtime student from Bucknell (she and her brother used to be my SAT students), collaborating on final edits for her 25-page, research-based anthropology paper.

I will share more tutoring anecdotes in future posts : )

Enjoy your day!

Be well and talk soon,

Linda