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.
Teaching Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”? This 31-slide PowerPoint is all you need to guarantee an engaging, rigorous Common Core-aligned unit. Slides include background information on O’Connor, Southern gothic conventions, symbols, irony, discussion questions, and an engaging writing activity. Perfect for American or AP Literature.
Every brain needs a Brain Break! Now you can have a bank of Movement and Silent Brain Breaks at your finger tips with the 55-Slide Brain Break Bank PowerPoint - including a Dance Party, Would You Rather, Human Knot, Snowball Fight, and Invisible Ball Toss. Perfect for grades 5-12.
Best practice research shows giving students Brain Breaks can:
Increase creativity
Improve mood and motivation
Restore energy and support learning
Reduce boredom, stress, anxiety
Help kids focus and be more productive
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!
Research shows that student feedback is one of the most important parts of the learning process! With an effect size of .79, the practice of giving students feedback enhances successful learning through all phases of instruction. But we all know that not all feedback is effective…
The Art if Giving Student Feedback PowerPoint (34 Slides), you and your team can learn about The Feedback Four, Formative/Summative Feedback, the Compliment Sandwich, Feedback Stems, Giving Feedback Tips and Tricks, and practice with “Your Turn” Real-Classroom scenarios.
Improve your practice of giving quality feedback, and watch your student growth grow exponetially. Perfect for PD and Department Meetings!
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!
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.
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.
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.
Teaching Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130? This 30-slide PowerPoint is all you need for a comprehensive, all-inclusive lesson. Product includes background information on Shakespeare, the sonnet form and structure, Petrarchan conventions, satirical thematic message, discussion questions, and writing activity. You will love this product and so will your students!
Perfect for an upcoming evolution and super sub friendly - keep them learning even when you’re not there!
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.
Teaching theme? Amp up the fun and proficiency level of your students with Identifying Theme With Fables PowerPoint. This 32-slide product features characteristics of fables, theme, guided practice with ten of Aesop’s fables, and a “Your Turn” writing activity. Answers included for a formative/summative assessment and instructional progress monitoring.
Teaching “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes? Introduce the riveting short story with this engaging 50-slide PowerPoint. Common Core-aligned product includes facts on Daniel Keyes, anticipation questions, vocabulary review, literary elements, discussion questions, and writing activities that enhance analysis of this thematically rich text.
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.”
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 John Steinbeck’s novella, The Pearl? This engaging, student-friendly 33-slide PowerPoint will carry your students through the entire unit with informative facts on Steinbeck, themes, symbols, character descriptions, parable/allegory analysis, discussion questions on each chapter, and Common Core aligned discussion/essay questions.
Teaching Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”? This 38-slide all-inclusive Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening PowerPoint is all you need to guarantee a stimulating, thought provoking, Common Core-aligned lesson. Slides include background information on Frost, anticipation questions, the text, rigorous discussion questions, and engaging writing activities. Your students will be making real life connections to this classic poem as they practice their literary analysis skills. Easy for you - engaging for them!
*This lesson is all-inclusive and sub-friendly. Keep them learning, even when you’re not there!
Teaching how to write a thesis to students? It can be daunting - but with the How to Write a Thesis Statement PowerPoint, you have everything you need for an exemplary lesson! Common Core-aligned Product includes 34 slides on what makes a strong thesis statement, steps for writing a thesis statement, tips and tricks, multiple CFU’s (Checks for Understanding), and a Bridge to Practice Formative Assessment. Your students will be ready to get their research on in no time!
Teaching Arthur Miller’s The Crucible? This 43-slide The Crucible PowerPoint is all you need to guarantee a stimulating, thought provoking, Common Core-aligned unit. Slide deck includes author information on Arthur Miller, anticipation questions, historical background on the Salem Witch Trials, craft/structure analysis, and rigorous discussion questions/answers that reflect depth of knowledge.
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!