Teaching transitional words and phrases? Introduce this important fluency skill with the 30-slide Transitional Words and Phrases PowerPoint. Student-friendly product covers additive, adversative, causal, and sequential transitions with examples and writing practice. Need more Transitional Words and Phrases products? Check out my bundle: Transitional Words and Phrases Bundle. A must have for every English teacher!

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!

Kick off The House on Mango Street with this comprehensive, student-friendly 45-slide PowerPoint that piques students’ interest in Esperanza’s coming-of-age story. Slides include background information, discussion questions, and engaging literary analysis tasks. Presentation can last up to the entire unit as it includes engaging Common Core writing activities and quotations from the book. You and your students will love this!

Teaching Gary Soto’s poem, “Oranges”? This 38-slide all-inclusive PowerPoint is all you need to guarantee a stimulating, thought provoking, Common Core-aligned lesson. Slides include background information on Gary Soto, anticipation questions, the text, rigorous discussion/essay questions and engaging writing activities. Your students will love this rite-of-passage poem about first love. *This lesson is all-inclusive and sub-friendly. Keep them learning, even when you’re not there!

Teaching To Kill a Mockingbird? Kick off this groundbreaking classic with a comprehensive, student-friendly 50-slide PowerPoint that is guaranteed to pique students’ interest. Slides include informative facts on Harper Lee, themes, symbols, character descriptions, and discussion/essay questions. Presentation can last up to the entire unit as it includes engaging Common Core essays and writing activities.

Do you coach, support, or inspire teachers? Research shows there are many benefits to goal-setting. Set the foundation to setting short, long, and lifelong goals with the S.M.A.R.T. Goal Setting With Teachers PowerPoint. Product includes 40-slide PowerPoint on the benefits to goal-setting, how to set S.M.A.R.T. (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-Based) professional goals, examples of teacher S.M.A.R.T. goals, and step-by-step action plan. You and your teachers will love this classroom-changing tool. Perfect for administration, department heads, and instructional coaches! Benefits to Teacher Goal Setting: Improves relationships with students Significantly increases and improves students’ motivation Supports professional development and students’ progress Teachers feel encouraged by career growth

Are you students struggling with fragments and run ons? Help them reach sentence proficiency in no time with the comprehensive, instructional 21-slide PowerPoint: “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Fragments and Run Ons.” Presentation addresses fragments, run-ons, and how to correct each 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!

Teaching cause and effect? Students will automatically become better readers and writers if they understand cause and effect text structure. This comprehensive, student-friendly 30-slide PowerPoint will do the trick! Presentation addresses signal words, examples, and cause and effect textual practice as a formative assessment to check for comprehension. This is a perfect resource to use throughout the year or before any standardized reading or writing exam.

Do you coach, lead, or inspire teachers? Research shows that an understanding of Webb’s Depth of Knowledge is the foundation to optimal instruction. Now you can help teachers gain an understanding with the Webb’s Depth of Knowledge Overview PowerPoint. This 32-Slide read-to-go PD PowerPoint includes a comprehensive overview of the DOK Four Levels, Checks for Understanding, DOK Question/Task Stems, DOK Activities, and a Teacher Deliverable. You and your teachers will love this classroom-changing tool. Perfect for administration, department heads, and instructional coaches!

Do you coach, lead, or inspire teachers? Research shows that Questioning is the foundation to optimal instruction. Now you can help teachers polish their questioning skills and techniques with the Questioning Strategies to Engage Students PD PowerPoint. Product includes 38-slide PowerPoint that address research-based strategies, Checks for Understanding, Questioning Stem Bank, Questioning Strategies, and a teacher deliverable. You and your teachers will love this classroom-changing tool. Perfect for administration, department heads, and instructional coaches!

Teaching symbols can be challenging but with this comprehensive and engaging 65-slide student-friendly PowerPoint, your students will be literary symbologists in no time. PowerPoint addresses major symbols in literature, including colors, nature, animals, and objects, as well as examples from Harry Potter, The Raven, and Shakespeare. Students will have an opportunity to identify and analyze the symbology in Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” and make their own symbol crest. You and your students will love this lesson!

Teaching Antigone, Oedipus, or Medea? Kick off your Ancient Greek Theater unit with this comprehensive 32-slide PowerPoint. Product addresses important information and concepts such as the Greek playwrights, Chorus, masks and costumes, Aristotle’s Poetics, dramatic terms (hubris, catharsis, hamartia) and Fun Ancient Greek Theater Facts to hook your students.

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.

Elevate your class with an amazing Socratic Seminar, a best practice strategy that includes reading, writing, speaking, and listening components. This 36-slide Socratic Seminar PowerPoint has everything you need including text ideas for each content area, best practice tips and tricks, Before/During/After the Seminar, and model seminar questions. Perfect for a top-notch evaluation or ready-to-go sub plans! Seven Benefits of the Socratic Seminar: Socratic Seminars enhance critical thinking. Socratic Seminars improve speaking and listening skills. Socratic Seminars increase student engagement. Socratic Seminars enhance reading comprehension Socratic Seminars encourage diverse perspectives and cultivate empathy. Socratic Seminars build confidence and hone communication skills.

Teaching George Orwell’s Animal Farm? This 40-slide all-inclusive Animal Farm PowerPoint is all you need to guarantee a stimulating, thought provoking, Common Core-aligned unit. Slide deck includes author information on Orwell, anticipation questions, allegorical background, craft/structure, rigorous discussion questions/answers that reflect depth of knowledge, and engaging writing activities.

No need to worry about the first day with the ultimate Back to School PowerPoint. You will set a positive tone while establishing your classroom procedures and routines with this student-friendly presentation. Slides cover all the pertinent information including classroom homework policy, daily schedule, expectations, your pet peeves (every teacher has them!), supply list, grading/extra credit policy, and a fun, ice-breaker interview activity your students will love. This 24-slide PowerPoint template can be used for any subject or grade. Simply “fill in the blanks” with your own particulars. A must-needed gem for every teacher!!

Break the ice the fun way with (40) engaging, student-friendly task cards. You and your students will love getting to know each other playing Would You Rather? and Find Someone Who…among other fun activities. Ice Breaker Task Cards are great way to start the day on a positive note or begin Morning Meetings. Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use; no gluing required!

Teaching Langston Hughes’ “Madam and the Rent Man”? Amp the rigor and literary analysis with the comprehensive Madam and the Rent Man TPCASTT PowerPoint Lesson. Product includes 30 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.