Prepping your students for the big standardized test? Amp up the fun and proficiency level of your students with (40) engaging Standardized Test Task Cards that challenge and teach simultaneously. Task cards are an effective instructional tool for test prep and a great alternative to boring worksheets! Task cards address a variety of literary skills, including vocabulary, context clues, main idea, analogies, response to literature, author’s purpose, writing, and research. 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!
Prepping your students for the big standardized test? Amp up the fun and proficiency level of your students with (40) engaging Standardized Test Task Cards that challenge and teach simultaneously. Task cards are an effective instructional tool for test prep and a great alternative to boring worksheets! Task cards address a variety of literary skills, including vocabulary, context clues, main idea, analogies, response to literature, author’s purpose, writing, and research. 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!
Prepping your students for the big standardized test? Amp up the fun and proficiency level of your students with (40) engaging Standardized Test Task Cards that challenge and teach simultaneously. Task cards are an effective instructional tool for test prep and a great alternative to boring worksheets! Task cards address a variety of literary skills, including vocabulary, context clues, main idea, analogies, response to literature, author’s purpose, writing, and research. 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!
Test Tips and Tricks is the ultimate Test Prep PowerPoint (35 Slides) that will put you and your students at ease before taking any type of standardized test. PowerPoint includes guaranteed-to-succeed strategies, tips, and comprehensive test-taking terms review. Test Tips and Tricks uses humor and positive reinforcement to psych your students up for this all-important challenge. With Test Tips and Tricks and your professional expertise, your students will reach proficiency in no time!!
For all subject areas!!!
Teaching grammar and revision/editing skills? This bundle is all you need to focus on important concepts of the revision/editing process. Product includes a comprehensive PowerPoint on Revision versus Editing, a Revision/Editing Checklist, Grammar/Revision Task Cards, and a Grammar Warmup PowerPoint to start any class.
If you teach ELA, composition, or creative writing, you and your students will love this product!
Teaching revision concepts? Amp up the fun and proficiency level in your classroom with Revision Task Cards. Product includes (40) engaging task cards that cover a variety of common proofreading errors found on standardized tests, including run ons, comma placement, appositives, subject/verb agreement, capitalization, homophones, underlining, quotation marks, etc. Task cards are an effective instructional tool for test prep and a great 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!
Warm up your class with a challenging sentence in need of revision. 51-Slide PowerPoint includes sentences address proofreading concepts such as commas, quotation marks, capitalization, apostrophes, titles of works, run-ons, and spelling. Product includes slides with answers so that you may review with your class.
Perfect for test prep and substitute-friendly!
Teach writing? Ensure your students know and understand the difference between Revision and Editing with Revision and Editing Checklist. Product includes a graphic organizer writing tool using the acronyms ARMS (Add, Remove, Move, Substitute) and CUPS (Capitalize, Usage, Punctuation, Spelling) with space for note-taking. Perfect for writing assessment practice, peer editing practice, or literacy centers.
Editing and Revision are often confused but very different. Ensure your students understand these important writing concepts with the 35-slide Editing Versus Revision PowerPoint. Product includes information on the writing process (Prewriting, Drafting, Revising, Editing, and Publishing) as well as a deep dive into Revision and Editing with the acronyms ARMS (Add, Remove, Move, Substitute) and CUPS (Capitalize, Usage, Punctuation, Spelling) as mnemonic devices.
PowerPoint is an all-in-one lesson that concludes with a CFU formative assessment - great for evaluations! If you teach ELA, composition, or creative writing, you and your students will love this product!
Teaching Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130? This Bundle is all you need for a comprehensive, all-inclusive week-long unit. Product includes 30-slide PowerPoint, Close Reading Test, and 40-Shakespeare Task Cards (answer key included). All the prep work is done as your students learn about Shakespeare, the sonnet form and structure, Petrarchan conventions, and the satirical thematic message. Students will show their thinking with rigorous discussion questions and writing activities. You will love this Bundle and so will your students! Perfect for an upcoming evolution and super sub friendly - keep them learning even when you’re not there!
Teaching the Bard? Kick off a compelling introduction to any of Shakespeare’s plays or sonnets with this comprehensive, student-friendly 30-slide PowerPoint, “Much Ado About Shakespeare.”
Presentation is interactive and informative as students will learn key facts on Shakespeare’s life, the Globe Theater, plays, and sonnets, and language. Student activities include analyzing a sonnet and creating “Shakespearean insults” - always a class favorite! You will love this product and so will your students! Fun, engaging, and informative.
Tweens and teens love chills and thrills! The Gothicsm and Suspense Bundle is all you need to for a spine-tingling unit that incorporates reading, writing, speaking, and listening. As a bonus, these lessons are all-inclusive and super sub-friendly. Keep them learning, even when you’re not there!
Product includes:
Gothicism Literature PowerPoint - 23 slides
Southern Gothic Literature PowerPoint - 31 slides
Mystery and Suspense Task Cards - 40 task cards
The Elevator Short Story PowerPoint - 39 slides - (all-inclusive lesson)
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!
Tweens and teens love chills and thrills! Kick off a unit - or an exhilarating lesson - of intense suspense with this all-inclusive 38-slide PowerPoint “The Elevator.” Presentation includes the text, anticipatory questions, probable passage, and Common Core aligned discussion/essay questions where students can write their own conclusion.
*This lesson is all-inclusive and 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.
Elements of Gothic Literature PowerPoint (22 Slides) is a perfect way to introduce the gothic genre, Frankenstein, Dracula, or the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Presentation includes gothic influences in art and a formative assessment where students try their own hand at writing in the gothic genre. Students love to hear the spooky music as an inspiration to their portentously gloomy stories. Perfect for Halloween writing - or any other time.
All English teachers teach poetry, plays, and of course the novel. This Common Core-aligned Literature Analysis Jumbo Task Card Bundle is all you need to add fun and rigor to your classroom. Product includes (40) Poetry Analysis Task Cards, (40) Drama Analysis Task Cards, and (40) Novel Study Task Cards. Task cards can be used with any poem, play, or novel and will reinforce literary concepts such as theme, conflict, setting, monologue, stanza, symbol, etc. You and your students will love this as they become literary scholars in no time!
Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use; no gluing required!
Teaching a play? Add rigor and fun to your unit with these (40) engaging Common Core-aligned Drama Analysis Task Cards. Task cards can be used with any dramatic text and will reinforce literary concepts such as monologue, stage directions, characterization, and theme. You and your students will love this interactive activity!
Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use; no gluing required!
Teaching the Bard’s plays or sonnets? Add rigor and fun to your unit with a set of Shakespeare Task Cards. Product includes (40) highly engaging task cards that will support inquiry into Shakespeare’s life, sonnets, plays, Elizabethan era, and the Globe Theater - including a “Challenge Card” where students write their own sonnet in Iambic Pentameter! You and your students will love this hands-on, student-centered activity! 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 Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130? Assess your students’ comprehension level and access higher order thinking skills with the Sonnet 130 Close Reading Test (10 Pages/Text Included). 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.