Kick off Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet with a comprehensive, student-friendly 35-slide PowerPoint that is guaranteed to pique students’ interest in this seminal classic. Slides include informative facts on Shakespeare, the Renaissance, the Globe Theater, character descriptions, quotations, theme, and captivating scenes from recent film adaptations. Presentation can last up to the entire unit as it includes engaging Common Core essays and writing activities.
Kick off Shakespeare’s Macbeth with a comprehensive, student-friendly 62-slide PowerPoint that is guaranteed to pique students’ interest in this classic tragedy. Common-Core aligned product includes informative facts on Shakespeare, the Globe Theater, character descriptions, quotations, symbols, theme, and deep-thinking essay questions. Presentation will last the entire unit.
Teaching similes and metaphors? Amp up the proficiency in your classroom with this comprehensive, instructional 39-slide PowerPoint. Common Core-aligned product addresses definitions, examples, and comprehension questions to assess understanding. Perfect for your figurative language or poetry unit. Easy for you - engaging for them!
Teaching the A-B-C’s of essay writing? This comprehensive, student-friendly 46-slide PowerPoint is all you need to yield the results you want. With a focus on the five paragraph essay, product addresses organizational patterns, transitional phrases, signal words, the hook, and proofreading checklist and tips. Includes an essay example, writing prompts, and a graphic organizer to use throughout the entire year. Your students will love this as much as you, as they take on the craft of writing like never before. Perfect for standardized writing prep and an effective foundation for high school, college, and beyond.
Teaching Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado?” Kick off this suspenseful classic with a comprehensive, student-friendly 36-slide PowerPoint that is guaranteed to pique students’ interest. Slides include anticipatory questions, informative facts on Edgar Allan Poe, pre-reading vocabulary, themes, character descriptions, and engaging Common Core essays and writing activities.
Teaching Characterization? Turn your students into literary scholars with this comprehensive 34-slide Characterization PowerPoint. Common Core-aligned product addresses direct and indirect characterization and the character acronym S.T.E.A.L. (Speech, Thoughts, Effect on Others, Actions, and Looks). Includes characterization comprehension questions for a quick assessment. Easy for you - engaging for them!
Teaching argumentation and persuasive rhetoric? Make sure your student understand the basics of ethos, pathos, and logos with this comprehensive 60-slide PowerPoint.
Common Core-aligned product provides information on each mode of rhetoric with definition, examples, and the effect on audience along with a formative assessment and engaging student writing tasks.
Do you lead teachers or adult learners? All educators know the value of student engagement but often need a few best-practice go-to strategies. With the 10 Student Engagement Strategies PowerPoint, you can help any teacher reach optimal learning conditions in their instructional practice. 56-slide Product includes slides on “The Big Ten” that can be used in any content area, including tips and tricks and what it actually looks like in the classroom:
Admit/Exit Tickets
Annotating Text
Gallery Walk
Interactive Word Walls
Jigsaw
Praise, Question, Suggestion
Quick Writes
Read, Write, Pair, Share
Save the Last Word for Me
Socratic Seminar
Perfect for instructional coaching, professional development, or New Teacher Induction programs.
Teaching a play? Kick off an inspirational unit with this student-friendly, engaging 95-slide Elements of Drama PowerPoint. Product introduces students to drama with background information on the Greek theater, dramatic elements/terms, famous plays, and an opportunity to act out the most famous scene in all of theater - Romeo and Juliet’s balcony scene, which can be a lesson in itself!
The Morning Meeting PowerPoint is the ultimate way to start each morning with an engaging topic that will ensure a positive classroom climate. With over 120 slides to choose from, you and your students will get to know each other while discussing real-world topics, themes, and subjects that will initiate social/emotional growth. You and your students will love this!
This product is super sub friendly. Keep your classroom climate positive - even when you’re not there!
Nelson Mandela said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Now when social justice education is most important, help your students look at current and historical events through the lens of our most courageous social justice heroes with the Social Justice Quotation PowerPoint.
Product includes 92 additional slides of prominent quotations from diverse voices, including Alveda King, Che Guevara, Mahatma Gandhi, Spike Lee, and Nikki Giovanni that will create a safe classroom community and engage students in important conversations on tolerance, equality, diversity, and respect for all. Perfect for Distance Learning lessons.
Archetypes are everywhere in literature! Take your students to the next level with this comprehensive, engaging 88-slide PowerPoint on all the major archetypes, including character, symbol, and the heroic journey. Before you know it, your students will be analyzing literature like college professors! A perfect instructional tool for A.P./honors classes.
Teaching George Orwell’s allegorical novel Animal Farm? Elevate your instruction with the Common Core-aligned 55-page Animal Farm Unit Bundle for everything you need!
Bundled product includes the following:
Animal Farm PowerPoint
Animal Farm Close Read Assessment with answer key
Teaching phobias, philes, and Greek/Latin Roots? The Phobias and Philes Vocabulary Bundle has everything you need. 70-slide product includes two comprehensive PowerPoints. Perfect for a vocabulary unit, Halloween, Valentine’s Day, or upcoming evaluation. Your students will have a blast as they sharpen their Greek/Latin root knowledge and context clue skills.
Teaching Sherlock Holmes’s The Hound of the Baskervilles? Kick off your unit with with a comprehensive, student-friendly 63-slide PowerPoint that is guaranteed to pique students’ interest in this classic detective novel. Common Core-aligned product includes facts on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the mystery genre, anticipation questions, vocabulary review, literary elements, discussion questions, and writing activities that enhance analysis of this thematically rich, spine-tingling text. Product presentation will last the entire unit.
Exit Tickets are a versatile, research-based best practice that allow students to “show what they know.” In addition, Exit Tickets are a great way to conclude class while leaving you with a piece of data that informs tomorrow’s instruction.
Now you can have 100 Exit Ticket slides at your fingertips for easy lesson wrap-ups! Just grab any slide and add it to your PowerPoint or Google Classroom. Share with a colleague for ready-to-use/no-prep formative assessments. Perfect for teacher evaluations that can be used for any subject or class!
No need to worry about Back to School with this all-inclusive bundle! Product includes:
First Day Back to School PowerPoint
Classroom Rules and Expectations PowerPoint
(40) Ice Breaker Task Cards for get-to-know-you fun - all at a reduced price!
You will set a positive and welcoming tone while establishing your classroom procedures and routines. PowerPoint templates can be used for any subject or grade. Simply “fill in the blanks” with your own particulars. A must-needed gem for every teacher!! 72 pages total!
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.
Teaching Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”? This short story bundle is all you need for a rigorous, engaging Common Core aligned unit. “The Lottery Short Story Bundle” includes a 31-slide PowerPoint, (40) Mystery and Suspense Task Cards, and a 17-page exam test with full text and answer key!
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 this poignant short story on blind conformity.
Teaching ethos, pathos, and logos? Teach, practice, and assess these important argumentative devices with the Ethos, Pathos, and Logos PTA Bundle! Common Core-aligned products include answer keys and opportunities to practice these rhetorical skills.
The Ethos, Pathos, and Logos Bundle includes three research-based, best practice products that allow for instruction, practice, and assessment:
PowerPoints - 60 slides
Task Cards - 40 Task Cards
Assessment - 30-question test with answer key
Here’s how it works:
You TEACH the skill with an easy-to-understand, comprehensive instructional PowerPoint.
Students PRACTICE the skill as they review the content with high yield Task Cards that generate active engagement.
You ASSESS the skill with a Common Core-aligned assessment that will let you know in no time who is advanced, proficient, basic, and below basic.