Tickle your students’ funny bones as you teach the universal concept of puns with this engaging, interactive 50-slide PowerPoint. Presentation introduces the concept of wordplay and has tons of humorous examples with kid-friendly pictures. Students will analyze the puns as they discuss or write out their double meaning. Your students will love this!! Puns are everywhere in our society. Great for English Language Learners, too.

Teaching Edgar Allan Poe? Add rigor and fun to your unit with these (40) engaging Edgar Allan Poe Task Cards that can be used for any Poe short story or poem. Product will reinforce Poe’s themes of gothicism, suspense, and mystery as well as literary concepts such as mood, tone, symbol, red herring, flashback, foreshadowing, and unreliable narrator. You and your students will love this hands-on, student-centered activity! Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use; no gluing required!

“Nevermore” has there been a more engaging PowerPoint for Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.” Presentation hits Common Core objectives as students engage in building background, vocabulary review, deep thinking comprehension questions, and a culminating activity where students make their own symbol crest. PowerPoint contains built-in differentiation for remedial or ELL classes.* A perfect presentation for an upcoming evaluation as you and your students will perform like literary stars. *Text in red shows differentiation for lower-level classes.

Teaching sequencing in reading and writing? This is a literacy skill often addressed on standardized tests. Make sure your students are test-ready with (30) Sequencing Task Cards that can be analyzed in pairs, groups, literacy centers, or whole class instruction. Answer key included. Task cards are a fun, effective instructional tool and alternative to boring worksheets! Perfect for ELA test prep that’s easy for you - engaging for them! Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use; no gluing required!

Teaching foreshadowing and flashback? Ensure your students know how to identify both narrative devices with (32) engaging Foreshadowing and Flashback Task Cards - using contemporary and classic literary passages. This Common Core-aligned product is a great exercise in close reading and perfect for standardized test prep. Task Cards are an effective instructional tool and alternative to boring worksheets! Answer key included. Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use; no gluing required!

Teaching foreshadowing and flashback? Hold your students accountable with the Foreshadowing and Flashback ELA Test that includes close reading of classic and contemporary literary passages. This Common Core-aligned assessment will let you know in no time who is advanced, proficient, basic, and below basic in identifying foreshadowing and flashback, an important ELA literary skill. Multiple choice questions simulate those found on actual standardized tests. Product can be used for common assessments throughout your team or department and is super sub-friendly. Keep them learning - even when you’re not there! About Assessments: Assessment is the engine that drives student learning! Frequent assessment and feedback are crucial for helping students learn. When assessment works best, it does the following: • Provides diagnostic feedback • Helps educators set standards • Evaluates progress • Relates to a student’s progress • Motivates performance • Helps teachers and students self-evaluate Tip: Save trees and time! Make one class set of the tests and have students use a multiple choice answer sheet that can be scanned.

Teaching those pesky punctuation marks? Amp up the proficiency level with the (14) Punctuation Marks Task Cards. This (32) Task Cards product covers all (14) punctuation marks, including the often forgotten hyphens, dashes, slashes, ellipses, and parentheses! Answer key included. This Common Core-aligned product is perfect for standardized test prep and super sub friendly. Task Cards are an effective instructional tool and alternative to boring worksheets! Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use; no gluing required! Punctuation Mark Task Cards include: Period Question mark Exclamation point Comma Colon Semicolon Dash Brackets Braces Parentheses Apostrophe Quotation marks Ellipsis Hyphen

Teaching Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol? Kick off this time-honored classic with a comprehensive, student-friendly 32-slide PowerPoint that is guaranteed to pique students’ interest. Slides include informative facts on Charles Dickens, Victorian London, themes, and character descriptions. Presentation can last up to the entire unit as it includes engaging Common Core essays and writing activities.

Teaching Roald Dahl’s “The Landlady”? Assess your students’ comprehension level and access higher order thinking skills with this 10-page unit test. Questions include multiple choice, short answer, and a rigorous five-paragraph essay on the thematic message, which can be included or not based on the level of your students. Common Core aligned. Answer key included.

Tweens and teens love chills and thrills! Kick off “The Landlady” with this engaging, student-friendly 38-slide PowerPoint. Presentation includes facts on Roald Dahl, pre-reading vocabulary, prediction questions, character descriptions, and Common Core aligned discussion/essay questions.

Teaching the concept of irony? Help your students understand this literary device with the 30-slide PowerPoint: Isn’t It Ironic? Presentation addresses verbal, situational, and dramatic irony with examples and kid-friendly pictures. Students will have an opportunity to show what they have learned as they analyze Shel Silverstein’s ironic poem, “Smart.” A wonderful review for standardized test prep. You and your students will love this!

Teaching parts of speech? Hold your students accountable with the Parts of Speech Test (11 Pages/30 Questions) that addresses all eight parts of speech, including nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. This Common Core-aligned assessment will let you know in no time who is advanced, proficient, basic, and below basic in this important ELA skill. Multiple choice questions simulate those found on actual standardized tests. Easy-to-grade answer key included. Product can be used for common assessments throughout your team or department and is super sub-friendly. Keep them learning - even when you’re not there!

Teaching Southern Gothic literature? This 31-slide PowerPoint is a perfect introduction to To Kill a Mockingbird, As I Lay Dying, or Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” Product includes information on the tropes of Southern Gothic literature, authors, themes, and engaging writing tasks incorporating this genre’s distinctive motifs.

Teaching Edgar Allan Poe, Roald Dahl, or the detective story? Add rigor and fun to your unit with these (40) engaging Common Core-aligned Mystery and Suspense Task Cards. Task cards can be used with any gothic, suspense, or mystery story, reinforcing concepts such as mood, tone, symbol, red herring, flashback, foreshadowing, and unreliable narrator. You and your students will love this hands-on, student-centered activity! Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use; no gluing required!

Teaching John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”? This 40-slide all-inclusive PowerPoint is all you need to guarantee an engaging, rigorous Common Core-aligned lesson. Slides include background information on Keats and Romanticism, vocabulary review, the text, analysis on craft and structure, rigorous discussion/essay questions and engaging writing activities. Your students will love this classic ode that has captivated audiences for generations. Perfect for British or AP Literature. *This lesson is all-inclusive and sub-friendly. Keep them learning, even when you’re not there!

Teaching Edgar Allan Poe’s “Annabel Lee”? Assess your students’ comprehension level and access higher order thinking skills with the “Annabel Lee” Close Reading Test (11 Pages). Questions include multiple choice, short answers, and a rigorous five-paragraph essay on the thematic message. This product is Common Core aligned, all-inclusive, and super sub friendly - keep them learning even when you’re not there! Answer key included. Close reading is a high yield strategy that ensures maximum literary benefits and proficiency as seen in increased test scores.

Kick off your literature class with The Seven Basic Plots PowerPoint (40 Slides) based on Christopher Booker’s renowned book used in college classrooms across the country. Product addresses each plot archetype with the meta-plot, examples from literature, and summary. Plot archetypes include the following: 1 - Overcoming the Monster 2 - Rags to Riches 3 - The Quest 4 - Voyage and Return 5 - Comedy 6 - Tragedy 7 - Rebirth Your students will be discussing and writing about literature like college professors in no time! Perfect for an introduction to AP English or American/English literature, this is the reference no serious English teacher should be without!

Kick off The House on Mango Street with this comprehensive, student-friendly 45-slide PowerPoint that piques students’ interest in Esperanza’s coming-of-age story. Slides include background information, discussion questions, and engaging literary analysis tasks. Presentation can last up to the entire unit as it includes engaging Common Core writing activities and quotations from the book. You and your students will love this!

Students love games, so combine word work into word fun with the Scattergories PowerPoint! Students will be fully engaged with this interactive, fun instructional game that makes you “the cool teacher!” Perfect for a bell ringer, brain break, or building community activity. 41-slide, no-prep product includes rules/directions for easy scoring.

Every brain needs a Brain Break! Now you can have a bank of Movement and Silent Brain Breaks at your finger tips with the 55-Slide Brain Break Bank PowerPoint - including a Dance Party, Would You Rather, Human Knot, Snowball Fight, and Invisible Ball Toss. Perfect for grades 5-12. Best practice research shows giving students Brain Breaks can: Increase creativity Improve mood and motivation Restore energy and support learning Reduce boredom, stress, anxiety Help kids focus and be more productive