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Teach and reach your students with all things literacy!
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Foreshadowing and Flashback Bundle
Teaching foreshadowing and flashback? Teach, practice, and assess this important narrative device with the Foreshadowing and Flashback Literary PTA Bundle! Common Core-aligned products include answer keys and opportunities to practice close reading using classic and contemporary literary passages.
The Foreshadowing and Flashback Literary Bundle includes three research-based, best practice products that allow for instruction, practice, and assessment:
PowerPoints - 32 slides
Task Cards - 32 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.
Puns Task Cards
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!
The Lottery PowerPoint
Teaching Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”? Introduce Shirley Jackson’s classic story of conformity with this engaging, student-friendly 30-slide PowerPoint. Presentation includes facts on Shirley Jackson, themes, symbols, character descriptions, and Common Core aligned discussion/essay questions.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock PowerPoint
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.
Unreliable Narrator PowerPoint
Teaching the Unreliable Narrator as a plot device? Turn your students into literary scholars with this comprehensive 54-slide Unreliable Narrator PowerPoint. Common Core-aligned product addresses types of unreliable narrators, literary tropes, feminism theory of the unreliable narrator, and a direct instruction activity with Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.”
The Monkey's Paw PowerPoint
Tweens and teens love chills and thrills!
Kick off “The Monkey’s Paw” with this engaging, student-friendly 32-slide PowerPoint. Presentation includes facts on W.W. Jacobs, pre-reading vocabulary, the horror genre, themes, symbols, character descriptions, and Common Core aligned discussion/essay questions.
Dracula PowerPoint
Teaching Bram Stoker’s Dracula? Elevate this literary horror classic with a comprehensive, student-friendly 38-slide Dracula PowerPoint that is guaranteed to pique students’ interest in both the genre and novel. Slides include informative facts on Stoker, anticipatory questions, themes, symbols, and analytical discussion questions/answers. Product is Common Core-aligned and editable.
The Haunted Palace by Edgar Allen Poe PowerPoint
Teaching Edgar Allan Poe or gothic literature? This comprehensive 40-slide PowerPoint on Poe’s poem “The Haunted Palace” is all you need for a perfect lesson that can last 2-5 days. Product includes background information on Poe, gothicism, complete text, discussion questions (and answers), TPCASTT analysis, and student writing challenge.
Irony PowerPoint
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!
Parts of Speech PowerPoint
Teaching parts of speech? Help your students reach proficiency with this comprehensive, instructional 21-slide PowerPoint. Presentation addresses all eight parts of speech, including: nouns, verbs, pronouns, prepositions, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, and interjections - with examples and kid-friendly pictures.
Assess your students with a formative/summative review that will let you know their comprehension level. Easy for you - engaging for them!
Drop Everything and Read PowerPoint
Do you want to integrate Drop Everything and Read into your classroom routine but not sure how to go about it? Now with the 52-slide Drop Everything and Read PowerPoint, you have your roadmap! Product includes Tips and Tricks, Benefits, How to Create a Classroom Library and Book Nook, and ready-to-go D.E.A.R. Discussion Questions/Activities. This Common Core-aligned product is a must-have for any English teacher!
Did you know implementing D.E.A.R. on a regular basis will…
Help develop lifelong readers by giving students voice and choice in what they read
Increase reading comprehension
Build vocabulary
Build background knowledge
Improve writing skills
Foster classroom community
The Tell Tale Heart PowerPoint
Teaching Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart?” Kick off this suspenseful classic with a comprehensive, student-friendly 30-slide PowerPoint that is guaranteed to pique students’ interest. Slides include informative facts on Edgar Allan Poe, themes, symbols, character descriptions, and captivating scenes from the film adaptation. Presentation includes engaging Common Core essays and writing activities.
Foreshadowing and Flashback PowerPoint Lesson
Teaching foreshadowing and flashback? Ensure that your students understand these two important narrative devices with a comprehensive 32-slide Foreshadowing and Flashback PowerPoint. Product includes definitions, examples using classic and contemporary literary passages, interactive answers, and an opportunity to write their own foreshadowing/flashback paragraphs as a formative/summative assessment.
Rebus Puzzle PowerPoint
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.
The Odyssey PowerPoint
Teaching Homer’s The Odyssey need not be an “epic” challenge with this comprehensive, student-friendly 72-slide PowerPoint. Presentation includes informative facts on Homer, epic conventions, themes, symbols, scenes from film adaptations, character descriptions, and rigorous Common Core aligned essay questions that will take you through the entire unit.
You and your students will love this!
Idioms PowerPoint
Idioms are everywhere! Teach the universal concept of idioms with this engaging, interactive 30-slide PowerPoint. Presentation introduces the concept with humorous examples and kid-friendly pictures. Check for understanding as your students analyze popular idioms, write sentences, and illustrate both the literal and figurative meaning.
Great for English Learning students, too!!
The Sick Rose by William Blake PowerPoint
Teaching William Blake’s “The Sick Rose” or gothic poetry? This comprehensive 36-slide PowerPoint on Blake’s poem “The Sick Rose” is all you need for a perfect lesson that can last several days. Product includes background information on Blake, gothicism, complete text, discussion questions (and answers), TPCASTT analysis, and student writing challenge for a formative/summative assessment.
We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks PowerPoint Lesson
Teaching Gwendolyn Brooks’ “We Real Cool”? Amp the rigor and literary analysis with the comprehensive “We Real Cool” TPCASTT PowerPoint Lesson. Product includes 28 slides including complete text, text dependent-questions, writing challenge, and in-depth step-by-step instructions of the TPCASTT analysis protocol that supports students’ response to poetry, specifically - title, paraphrase, connotation, attitude/tone, shift, title (revisited), and theme. This research-based, best practice will ensure your students grasp the important concepts of poetry while amplifying their literary analytical skills.
Perfect for an evaluation lesson or sub plans! Keep them learning even when you’re not there!
Create a Bookmark
Expressly designed for 6-12th graders, Create a Bookmark that can be used as a chapter check or a culminating reading activity, perhaps in lieu of the ordinary book report. Create a Bookmark that reinforces literacy and common core language arts standards, while allowing for individual expression. It is a student/teacher-friendly, hands-on classroom resource that includes the following elements:
• Title
• Author
• Theme of book
• Character quotation
• Scene from the book
• Summary of the book
Academic Terms to Know
What is the difference between analyzing and defining? Comparing and contrasting? In this kid-friendly PowerPoint, your students will become test-taking pros as they learn to differentiate common academic terms that they will need to know in high school, college, and beyond. A gem of a lesson if there ever was one!!!