Teaching “Rikki Nikki Tavi” by Rudyard Kipling? Enhance your instruction of this classic tale in courage with this engaging 34-slide Rikki Tikka Tavi PowerPoint. Common Core-aligned product includes facts on Kipling, anticipation questions, vocabulary review, literary elements, character descriptions, discussion questions, and a class debate on the mongoose versus the cobra.
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.
Students love learning about philias and philes! Now you can leverage their interest with the Philias and Philes PowerPoint Lesson (Common Core-aligned). Product includes 36-slide PowerPoint on the etymology of philes, common (and not-so-common) Greek/Latin philias and philes, a fun Check for Understanding quiz (answer key included), and an opportunity to create their own phile word. You and your students will love this lesson. Perfect for Valentine’s Day or an upcoming evaluation!
Kids love Valentine’s Day! Amp up the fun with the Valentine’s Day Haiku PowerPoint as students learn to brainstorm, write, and edit poetry. Product includes 30 slides on the background of haikus, fun Valentine’s Day facts, the haiku structure, Valentine’s Day haiku writing tips, examples, editing techniques, and tasks. You and your students will love this!
This Common Core-aligned lesson is perfect for an evaluation lesson or sub plans! Keep them learning even when you’re not there!
Do you coach, lead, or inspire teachers? Now you can help empower teachers and build capacity with the Instructional Coach PowerPoint Guide. Product includes a 34-slide PowerPoint that address roles of the instructional coach, onboarding, coaching cycle components, sample questioning stems, setting smart goals, and coaching tips and tricks! This is a must-have resource for any coach or leader!
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 “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry? This 56-page product bundle is all you need for a rigorous, engaging Common Core aligned unit. Product includes a 34-slide PowerPoint, 40 Short Story Task Cards, and a 10-page exam test with answer key! Bundle is super sub friendly! Keep them learning - even when you’re not there.
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 heart-breaking short story.
Teaching O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi”? Assess your students’ comprehension level and access higher order thinking skills with this 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 text features? Hold your students accountable with the Text Features Assessment Test. This Common Core-aligned assessment will let you know in no time who is advanced, proficient, basic, and below basic in this important ELA skill. (30) Multiple choice questions simulate those found on actual standardized tests. Product can be used for common assessments throughout your team or department and is super sub-friendly. Keep them learning - even when you’re not there!
About Assessments:
Assessment is the engine that drives student learning! Frequent assessment and feedback are crucial for helping students learn. When assessment works best, it does the following:
• Provides diagnostic feedback
• Helps educators set standards
• Evaluates progress
• Relates to a student’s progress
• Motivates performance
• Helps teachers and students self-evaluate
Teaching Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol? This literary bundle is all you need for a rigorous, engaging Common Core aligned unit. Product includes a 33-slide PowerPoint, Scrooge’ Diary 6-Traits Writing Assignment, and a 9-page exam test with 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 charmed by this Dickensian classic.
Teaching Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol? Assess your students’ comprehension and writing with A Christmas Carol: Scrooge’s Diary Assignment. Product includes a rigorous, engaging assignment where students write from the perspective a Scrooge after his spiritual transformation. The fun challenge is students must include (10) words from Victorian England (list included). Product also includes a ready-to-go writing rubric and self-editing checklist based on the research-based Six Traits of Writing: Ideas, Organization, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Voice, and Conventions. Perfect for a summative assessment yet fun enough for the holidays!
Teaching Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol? Assess your students’ comprehension level and access higher order thinking skills no this classic with A Christmas Carol Final Exam Test. Questions include multiple choice, short answer, and a rigorous five-paragraph essay on the transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge. Common Core aligned. Answer key included.
Hygge is the Danish word meaning “Comfort or coziness that engenders well-being.” Teaching haikus? Now your students can beat the winter blues with fun and engaging Hygge Poetry Haikus! Ready-to-go 14-page packet includes clear directions, Hygge Haiku Word Bank, Imagery graphic organizer, Hygge Haiku writing page, and an easy-to-score grading rubric for you! You and your students will absolutely love this!
Perfect for an evaluation lesson or sub plans! Keep them learning even when you’re not there!
Teaching text features? Ensure your students know the basics of this important literary skill with the 32-slide Text Features PowerPoint. Product includes the purposes of text features, (16) text features with visual examples, the N.E.A.T. Strategy, and a Check For Understanding Quiz. You and your students will love this!
Text Features Addressed in This Product:
Table of Contents
Index
Headings/Subheadings
Captions
Bold Words/Italics
Illustrations
Photographs
Glossary
Labels
Graphs/Table/Chart/Diagram
Maps
Sidebars
Bullet Points
Title
Inset
Footnote
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 “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 Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky”? 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 Lewis Carroll, anticipation questions, the text, rigorous discussion/essay questions, and engaging writing activities. Your students will love this nonsensical monster poem as they learn about language and the derivation of words.
*This lesson is all-inclusive and sub-friendly. Keep them learning, even when you’re not there!
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!
Author’s Purpose is a reading and writing skill often found on standardized tests. Make sure your students are P-I-E certified with (40) engaging Author’s Purpose task cards that address persuasive, informative, and entertaining texts. An effective instructional tool and alternative to boring worksheets!
Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use; no gluing required!