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
Teaching Edgar Allan Poe? Add rigor and fun to your unit with these (40) engaging Edgar Allan Poe Task Cards that can be used for any Poe short story or poem. Product will reinforce Poe’s themes of gothicism, suspense, and mystery as well as literary concepts such as mood, tone, symbol, red herring, flashback, foreshadowing, and unreliable narrator. You and your students will love this hands-on, student-centered activity!
Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use; no gluing required!
Teaching Edgar Allan Poe’s “Annabel Lee”? Assess your students’ comprehension level and access higher order thinking skills with the “Annabel Lee” Close Reading Test (11 Pages). Questions include multiple choice, short answers, and a rigorous five-paragraph essay on the thematic message. This product is Common Core aligned, all-inclusive, and super sub friendly - keep them learning even when you’re not there! Answer key included.
Close reading is a high yield strategy that ensures maximum literary benefits and proficiency as seen in increased test scores.
Teaching “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe? This 68-page product bundle is all you need for a rigorous, engaging Common Core aligned unit. Product includes a 46-slide PowerPoint, 40 Edgar Allan Poe Poetry Task Cards, and a 11-page close reading 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 transfixed by this mystical poem.
This bundle is super sub friendly. Keep them learning - even when you’re not there!
Teaching the main idea? Teach, practice, and assess this important literacy skill with the Main Idea PTA Skills Bundle!
The PTA Skills Bundle includes three research-based, best practice products that allow for instruction, practice, and assessment:
PowerPoints - 32 slides
Task Cards - 40 Task Cards
Assessment - 30-question test with answer key
About PTA Skills Bundles:
The Guaranteed-To-Succeed PTA Skills Bundles includes three research-based, best practice products (PowerPoint, Task Cards, and Assessment) that allow for instruction, practice, and assessment – the three most important components of your lesson. PTA Bundles are an all-inclusive easy way to teach skills and concepts while reaching 100% student engagement and proficiency in no time.
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.
Need more products for all your literacy lessons? Check out the PTA ELA Skills Jumbo Bundle - Volume 1 and PTA ELA Skills Jumbo Bundle - Volume 2 for an entire year of resources!
10 Benefits of the PTA Skills Bundle:
➢PTA Bundles are instructional time-friendly!
➢PTA Bundles are perfect for standout evaluations. You’ll shine as your evaluator commends your use of materials, creativity, content, and assessment.
➢PTA Bundles are minimal prep work…it’s all there!
➢PTA Bundles include Common Core-aligned assessments will let you know in no time who is advanced, proficient, basic, and below basic in this important ELA skill.
➢PTA Bundles are time savers…they last for years!
➢PTA Bundles include research-based high yield strategies that keep students actively engaged.
➢PTA Bundles are super sub friendly…Keep them learning even when you’re not there!
➢PTA Bundles have built in standardized test prep, so no need to stress come spring!
➢PTA Bundles make collaboration easy. Share the wealth of your knowledge and resources with your colleagues the easy way.
➢PTA Bundles are Easy for you – Engaging for them!!
Add PTA Skills Bundles to your teaching library today!
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.
Teaching Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”? Assess your students’ comprehension level and access higher order thinking skills with “The Tell-Tale Heart” Final Exam (10 Pages). Questions include multiple choice, short answer, and a rigorous five-paragraph essay on the author’s style of suspense, which can be included or not based on the level of your students. Common Core aligned. Answer key included.
Teaching Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”? This product bundle is all you need for a rigorous, engaging Common Core aligned week-long unit. Product includes a 30-slide PowerPoint, a 10-page test with answer key, and 40 Edgar Allan Poe Task Cards. 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 classic short story of suspense.
Teaching how to identify the main or central idea of a text? Amp up the fun and proficiency level of your students this comprehensive, instructional 32-slide PowerPoint: “Finding the Main Idea.” Presentation addresses direct versus implied main ideas and how to identify each, with a focus on expository, nonfiction text.
Assess your students with a formative/summative review that will let you know their comprehension level. Easy for you - engaging for them!
Identifying the main or central idea is a literary skill often addressed on standardized tests. Make sure your students are prepared with these (40) engaging Main Idea Task Cards that focus on nonfiction, expository text. Task Cards can be analyzed in pairs, groups, or whole class instruction. Answer key included. A fun, 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!
Teaching main or central idea? Hold your students accountable with the Main Idea Test (13 pages/30 questions). 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. Multiple choice questions simulate those found on actual standardized tests. Answer key included.
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!
“Nevermore” has there been a more engaging PowerPoint for Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.” Presentation hits Common Core objectives as students engage in building background, vocabulary review, deep thinking comprehension questions, and a culminating activity where students make their own symbol crest. PowerPoint contains built-in differentiation for remedial or ELL classes.* A perfect presentation for an upcoming evaluation as you and your students will perform like literary stars.
*Text in red shows differentiation for lower-level classes.
Teaching Sherlock Holmes’s The Hound of the Baskervilles? This 85-page product bundle is all you need for a rigorous, engaging Common Core aligned unit. Product includes a 63-slide PowerPoint, 40 Novel Analysis Task Cards, and a 10-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 transfixed by this classic detective novel.
Teaching a play? Add rigor and fun to your unit with these (40) engaging Common Core-aligned Drama Analysis Task Cards. Task cards can be used with any dramatic text and will reinforce literary concepts such as monologue, stage directions, characterization, and theme. You and your students will love this interactive activity!
Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use; no gluing required!
All English teachers teach poetry, plays, and of course the novel. This Common Core-aligned Literature Analysis Jumbo Task Card Bundle is all you need to add fun and rigor to your classroom. Product includes (40) Poetry Analysis Task Cards, (40) Drama Analysis Task Cards, and (40) Novel Study Task Cards. Task cards can be used with any poem, play, or novel and will reinforce literary concepts such as theme, conflict, setting, monologue, stanza, symbol, etc. You and your students will love this as they become literary scholars in no time!
Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use; no gluing required!
Teaching a novel? Add rigor and fun to your unit with these (40) engaging Common Core-aligned Novel Study Task Cards. Task cards can be used with any novel and will reinforce literary concepts such as theme, conflict, setting, point of view, etc. Students will also have the opportunity to get creative as they answer questions such as, “What would the protagonist text, Tweet, or post on Facebook?” Novel Study Task Cards can be used for D.E.A.R., literary centers, small groups, or whole group instruction. You and your students will love this!
Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use; no gluing required!
Teaching poetry? Add rigor and fun to your unit with these (40) engaging Common Core-aligned Poetry Analysis Task Cards. Task cards can be used with any poem and will reinforce concepts such as address, stanza, theme, figurative language, and symbols, etc. You and your students will love this hands-on, student-centered activity!
Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use; no gluing required!
Teaching Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130? Assess your students’ comprehension level and access higher order thinking skills with the Sonnet 130 Close Reading Test (10 Pages/Text Included). Questions include multiple choice, short answers, and a rigorous five-paragraph essay on the thematic message. This product is Common Core aligned, all-inclusive, and super sub friendly - keep them learning even when you’re not there! Answer key included.
Close reading is a high yield strategy that ensures maximum literary benefits and proficiency as seen in increased test scores.
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!
Teaching the Bard’s plays or sonnets? Add rigor and fun to your unit with a set of Shakespeare Task Cards. Product includes (40) highly engaging task cards that will support inquiry into Shakespeare’s life, sonnets, plays, Elizabethan era, and the Globe Theater - including a “Challenge Card” where students write their own sonnet in Iambic Pentameter! You and your students will love this hands-on, student-centered activity! 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!