Teaching sequencing as a literacy skill and reading comprehension strategy? Hold your students accountable with the (30) question Sequencing Assessment Test that simulates questions students will see on standardized tests. 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. 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 Emily Dickinson’s “I’m Nobody! Who Are You”? Amp the rigor and literary analysis with the comprehensive “I’m Nobody! Who Are You?” PowerPoint Lesson. Product includes 24 slides addressing background information on Dickinson, symbols, theme, satire, literary analysis, complete text, text dependent-questions, and writing challenge. Perfect for an evaluation lesson or sub plans! Keep them learning even when you’re not there!

Tweens and teens love chills and thrills! Kick off Roald Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter” with this engaging, student-friendly 30-slide PowerPoint. Presentation includes facts on Roald Dahl, themes, symbols, character descriptions, and Common Core aligned discussion/essay questions.

Teaching puns? Ensure your students know how to identify puns with these (40) engaging Fun With Puns Task Cards. 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! 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!

Quick Writes are a powerful instructional tool that can be used any time during instruction. Leverage this amazing best practice with the Literature Quick Write PowerPoint. This 87-slide product includes poignant literary quotations written by Charles Dickens to Maya Angelou along with Quick Write Student Directions and Quick Write Turn and Talk Protocols. Each Quick Write can be employed as a writing activity, a Brain Break, or an amazing lesson launch. You and your students will love this! Seven Benefits of Quick Writes: Quick Writes build student confidence. Quick Writes increase engagement and decreases lesson anxiety. Quick Writes Improve student stamina and fluency in writing. Quick Writes strengthen relationships in class community. Quick Writes develop writer’s voice. Quick Writes foster a habit of writing: engages critical thinking, promotes reflection, amplifies creativity. Quick Writes synthesize content.

Teaching T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”? This 40-slide all-inclusive PowerPoint is all you need to guarantee an engaging, rigorous Common Core-aligned lesson on this complex text. Slides include background information on T.S. Eliot, characteristics of Modernism, a stanza-by-stanza analysis, and rigorous discussion/essay questions. Perfect for AP Literature.

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.

Quick Writes are a powerful instructional tool that can be used any time during instruction. Leverage this amazing best practice with the Poetry Quick Write PowerPoint. This 87-slide product includes poignant poems written by Langston Hughes to Emily Dickinson - along with Quick Write Student Directions and Quick Write Turn and Talk Protocols. Each Poetry Quick Write can be employed as a writing activity, a Brain Break, or an amazing lesson launch. You and your students will love this! Seven Benefits of Quick Writes: Quick Writes build student confidence. Quick Writes increase engagement and decreases lesson anxiety. Quick Writes Improve student stamina and fluency in writing. Quick Writes strengthen relationships in class community. Quick Writes develop writer’s voice. Quick Writes foster a habit of writing: engages critical thinking, promotes reflection, amplifies creativity. Quick Writes synthesize content.

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!

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!

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!

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!