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Teach and reach your students with all things literacy!
Text Features Task Cards
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Text Features Task Cards

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Teaching text features? Amp up the fun and proficiency level in your classroom with a comprehensive set of Text Features Task Cards. These (32) Common Core-aligned task cards challenge your students to identify and understand the purpose behind text features with real life scenarios. Task Cards can be analyzed in pairs, groups, literacy centers, or whole class instruction. Answer key included. A fun, effective instructional tool and alternative to boring worksheets! Perfect for ELA test prep. Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use; no gluing required!
Puns Test Assessment
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Puns Test Assessment

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Teaching puns? Hold your students accountable with the Pun ELA Test. This Common Core-aligned assessment will let you know in no time who is advanced, proficient, basic, and below basic in identifying puns, an important ELA figurative language 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. Happy Assessing!
Best Practice Strategies and Activities
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Best Practice Strategies and Activities

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All educators know that best practice strategies and activities are needed for optimal learning! But what is the difference between a strategy and an activity? How should teachers incorporate strategies and activities into their classroom? This 50-slide Professional Development PowerPoint is a comprehensive tutorial of Best Practice Strategies and Activities that can be adapted to any content or classroom. Product includes Marzano’s Nine Strategies for Optimal Learning, Hands-on Activities that correspond with each strategy, and a useful Problems of Practice assessment. Perfect for instructional coaching, professional development, or New Teacher Induction programs.
Formative and Summative Assessments PowerPoint
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Formative and Summative Assessments PowerPoint

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All educators know the value of giving feedback - but what exactly is the difference between formative and summative assessments and how does it look in the classroom? This 32-slide Professional Development PowerPoint is a comprehensive tutorial of Formative and Summative Assessments that can be adapted to any content or classroom. Product includes the fundamentals of assessing students, tips for giving feedback, and (10) fun and fabulous Formative Assessments that can be used in any class. Perfect for instructional coaching, professional development, or New Teacher Induction programs.
Differentiation in the Classroom PowerPoint
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Differentiation in the Classroom PowerPoint

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All educators know the value of Differentiation! But what does it actually look like in the classroom? This 42-slide Professional Development PowerPoint is a comprehensive tutorial of Differentiation that can be adapted to any content or classroom. Product includes the fundamentals of differentiating content, product, process, and learning environment and a useful Problems of Practice assessment. Perfect for instructional coaching, professional development, or New Teacher Induction programs.
Best Practice Professional Development Bundle
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Best Practice Professional Development Bundle

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Leading Professional Development? Teaching adult learners? This 125-slide Best Practice Professional Development Bundle includes three comprehensive Optimal Learning PowerPoints: Best Practice Strategies and Activities Featuring Marzano’s Nine Differentiation Formative and Summative Assessments Product includes Teaching Tips, Practical Classroom Ideas, and Problems of Practice Assessments. Perfect for instructional coaching, professional development, or New Teacher Induction programs.
House on Mango Street PowerPoint
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House on Mango Street PowerPoint

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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!
Halloween Literature Bundle
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Halloween Literature Bundle

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Students love chills and thrills!! Combine literary analysis and spine-tingleing stories with the Halloween Literature PowerPoint Bundle. Common Core-aligned product includes PowerPoints on Poe’s “The Tell Tale Heart,” “Annabel Lee,” Roald Dahl’s "The LandLady, W.W. Jacobs’ “The Monkey’s Paw,” and a bonus PowerPoint on gothic literature, which will give your students an opportunity to write their own spooky story. You and your students will love this! 170 Slides
Oranges by Gary Soto PowerPoint
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Oranges by Gary Soto PowerPoint

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Teaching Gary Soto’s poem, “Oranges”? This 38-slide all-inclusive PowerPoint is all you need to guarantee a stimulating, thought provoking, Common Core-aligned lesson. Slides include background information on Gary Soto, anticipation questions, the text, rigorous discussion/essay questions and engaging writing activities. Your students will love this rite-of-passage poem about first love. *This lesson is all-inclusive and sub-friendly. Keep them learning, even when you’re not there!
Shakespeare Tragedy PowerPoint Bundle
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Shakespeare Tragedy PowerPoint Bundle

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Teaching Shakespeare’s tragedy plays? This 180-slide PowerPoint product bundle is all you need for three rigorous, engaging Common Core aligned units on Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, and a bonus PowerPoint on the Bard himself. Each product is aligned to Common Core reading and writing standards, so that you can be assured your students are learning as they are transfixed by these seminal classic tragedies.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn PowerPoint
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn PowerPoint

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Teaching Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? Kick off this groundbreaking classic with a comprehensive, student-friendly 45-slide PowerPoint that is guaranteed to pique students’ interest. Slides include informative facts on Mark Twain, themes, symbols, character descriptions, and discussion/essay questions. Presentation can last up to the entire unit as it includes engaging Common Core essays and writing activities.
To Kill a Mockingbird PowerPoint
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To Kill a Mockingbird PowerPoint

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Teaching To Kill a Mockingbird? Kick off this groundbreaking classic with a comprehensive, student-friendly 50-slide PowerPoint that is guaranteed to pique students’ interest. Slides include informative facts on Harper Lee, themes, symbols, character descriptions, and discussion/essay questions. Presentation can last up to the entire unit as it includes engaging Common Core essays and writing activities.
Monsters Due on Maple Street PowerPoint
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Monsters Due on Maple Street PowerPoint

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Teaching The Twilight Zone play, “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street?” Introduce this gripping play of suspense and conformity with an engaging, student-friendly 36-slide PowerPoint. Presentation includes facts on The Twilight Zone, pre-reading vocabulary, teleplay terms, anticipation questions, themes, and Common Core aligned discussion/essay questions that will take you through the entire unit.
Eleven by Sandra Cisernos PowerPoint
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Eleven by Sandra Cisernos PowerPoint

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Teaching “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros? This 47-slide Common Core-aligned PowerPoint includes everything you need: short story text, facts on Sandra Cisneros, character descriptions, literary elements, and discussion questions that enhance analysis of this thematically rich text. Super sub friendly - Keep them learning even when you’re not there!
Rebus Puzzle PowerPoint
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Rebus Puzzle PowerPoint

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Students love brain teasers, so combine word work into word fun with the Rebus Puzzle PowerPoint! Students will be fully engaged with this interactive, fun instructional game that makes you “the cool teacher” while increasing critical thinking skills. Perfect for a bell ringer, brain break, or building community activity. 52-slide product includes rules/directions and answer key slides.
Boggle ELA Game PowerPoint
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Boggle ELA Game PowerPoint

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Combine word work into word fun with the Boggle PowerPoint! Students will be fully engaged with this interactive, fun instructional game that makes you “the cool teacher” while increasing critical thinking skills. Perfect for a bell ringer, brain break, or building community activity. 38-slide product includes rules/directions, easy to score point scale, and ELA/school themes for an extra culturally relevant challenge.
ELA Word Game PowerPoint
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ELA Word Game PowerPoint

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Combine word work into word fun with the ELA Word Game PowerPoint - that includes Boggle, Rebus Puzzles, and Scattergories! Students will be fully engaged with this interactive, fun product that makes you “the cool teacher” while increasing critical thinking and word proficiency. Perfect for a bell ringer, brain break, or building community activity. 65-slide product includes rules/directions for each game and easy to score point scale. Your students will love this!
Fears and Phobias Vocabulary PowerPoint
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Fears and Phobias Vocabulary PowerPoint

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Students love learning about fears and phobias! Now you can leverage their interest with the Fears and Phobias PowerPoint Lesson (Common Core-aligned). Product includes 36-slide PowerPoint on the etymology of phobias, common (and not-so-common) Greek/Latin phobias, a fun Check for Understanding quiz (answer key included), and an opportunity to create their own phobia word. You and your students will love this lesson. Perfect for Halloween or an upcoming evaluation!
Scattergories PowerPoint
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Scattergories PowerPoint

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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.
A.C.E. Reading Strategy PowerPoint
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A.C.E. Reading Strategy PowerPoint

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Teaching textual evidence using the A.C.E. strategy? Kick off your this research-based, best practice strategy with the 34-slide PowerPoint lesson. Product includes an easy-to-understand breakdown of A.C.E. (Answer, Cite, Explain), why it is important to include textual evidence when writing, and useful passage examples with answers. Perfect for reinforcing this important tool in any subject!