In this Paraphrasing PowerPoint, students will learn the difference between writing a summary, paraphrase, and quotation, and the six basic steps to paraphrasing. Includes a practice slide for students to paraphrase, a partner checklist, and a 5 question quick check up on their understanding of paraphrasing, summarizing, and using quotations in their own writing. - Greg Smith

Use this Main Idea PowerPoint to help students learn how to find the main idea. Details strategies for students and includes a practice selection that students can read and find the main idea. Supports common core standards. - Greg Smith

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe PowerPoint. Includes vocabulary words to know, the text of the poem with vocabulary highlighted, summary of The Raven with interpretation, symbols, and comprehension questions with answers. - Greg Smith

Book Report Assignment. Give this project to your students for an independent reading assignment. Students can choose to complete a comic strip, a greeting card, a collage, a movie poster, or a magazine advertisement. Assignment sheet includes directions, the five choices for student project with specifics, and a 100 point evaluation checklist. Have students turn in the sheet with their completed project, so you can easily grade. Print and go. Enjoy! - Greg Smith

Coretta Scott King - Her Life Story. This PowerPoint presentation highlights the main events of the life of the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and her fight for justice and peace. A quick overview of her life and her legacy. - Greg Smith

Thanksgiving Fun - Pilgrim Riddles. Five Thanksgiving riddles to figure out, written with an element of old fashioned language. It is a fun and quick filler activity for your students! Answer key included at the end. Enjoy!

Diary of Anne Frank Play - Supporting Material. This study guide includes a timeline of events, history of Anne Frank's Diary, Comparison of Events in the Play to real life, The Holiday of Hannakuh, Living in the Secret Annex, Diagrams of the living quarters, photos of the secret annex, individual and group activity, link to the film Forget Me Not, Classroom activity ideas, and Writing prompts. - Greg Smith

Looking for fun Memorial Day activities? Have your students try this free Memorial Day Jumble Word Puzzle. It will help them develop spelling and vocabulary skills, and they won't even realize they are learning. Enjoy! - Greg Smith

My Brother Sam is Dead PowerPoint. Use this PowerPoint as an introduction, a reading guide, and to conclude your novel study on My Brother Sam is Dead. Includes information about the author, background information, themes, setting, characters, conflicts, vocabulary, discussion questions, writing response questions, essays, research, and opinion writing. - Greg Smith

Tuck Everlasting Word Search Puzzle. Fun word search puzzle with vocabulary from Tuck Everlasting. Black and white ink friendly word search puzzle that your students will love. Includes 23 different vocabulary words related to Tuck Everlasting. Great supplement to my Tuck Everlasting PowerPoint. Includes solution. Thanks and enjoy! Terms included are: ambled bovine contemplation melancholy implore gallows rueful venture anguish fragrant constable illiterates pickle rave acrid accomplice gentility ebb impulse indefinitely pry profoundly soothing Tuck Everlasting | Novel Study | Vocabulary | Printables | Worksheets | Word Search | Puzzle

Fire Station Word Search Puzzle. Great for Fire Safety week. Fun word search puzzle all about things you find in a fire station. Color and Black and white ink friendly word search puzzle that your students will love. Includes 32 different words related to Fire Stations. Includes solution. Thanks and enjoy! Terms included are: Alarm Boots Bunker Chief Dalmatian Dispatch Dorms Engine Equipment Extinguisher Firefighter Flashlights Foam Garage Gear Gloves Helmet Hook Hose Jacket Ladder Mask Nozzle Pager Pole Radio Rope Siren Tools Truck Turntable Valves Fire Safety Week| Fire Stations | Fire Fighters | Printables | Worksheets | Word Search | Puzzle

The Yearling Video Guide. Engage your students while they are watching the classic movie The Yearling with this handy video guide. Includes 30 quick questions to assess whether or not students are paying attention, and a short essay question about the theme to complete after they have finished watching. My students have always enjoyed watching this coming of age story. The movie is about a boy growing up in rural Florida during the 1870's. Key included. Enjoy! - Greg Smith

Food Chains Word Search Puzzle. Fun word search puzzle all about Food Chains. Black and white ink friendly word search puzzle that your students will love. Includes 26 different words related to Food Chains. Includes solution. Thanks and enjoy! Terms included are: abiotic animals autotroph biotic carnivore chain competition consumer decomposer detrivore ecosystem energy feeder food herbivore heterotroph nutrients omnivore organism photosynthesis plants predator prey producer scavenger web Food Chains | Food Web | Science | Printables | Worksheets | Word Search | Puzzle

Word Game - Categories. Students will have fun competing in this word game that requires quick thinking. How to play: Choose a letter Choose a category Name as many words as you can that begin with that letter that fit in the category in the time allowed. Print out letters on card stock, cut out and laminate for durability. Print out categories on card stock, cut out and laminate for durability. Store separately in containers of your choice, but best if they are not clear. You may use the included labels for your containers. When you are ready to play, take out the containers and draw ( or have a student draw) a letter from one and a category from the other. You may project the How to Play slide on your whiteboard. Players will have to think of as many words that begin with the letter drawn that fit into the category selected. Game can be played individually, but works best in groups or teams. Give players 3 minutes (more or less, depending on your group) Have them record their answers on a sheet of paper, or you can print out the recording sheet After time is up, the player(s) with the most amount of words in that category wins! Everything you need to play this game for a long time! Includes 216 different category cards, 26 alphabet cards, labels for storage, teacher directions, student directions, optional recording sheet

Leap Year PowerPoint. Find out what leap year is and how leap year is figured. Includes a link to a short video explaining the scientific reasoning behind leap year, and 29 fun activities to do on Leap Day! Enjoy! - Greg Smith

Martin Luther King Jr. Two fun sheets to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Each has an informational text passage about MLK for students to read. Great for Martin Luther King Day, Black History Month, or to go with any unit on the Civil Rights Movement. After they read the text, students need to unscramble the words in the word scramble puzzle. The trick - The words can all be found in the passage. Includes two sheets that tell the story of Dr. King, and answer keys. Enjoy! - Greg Smith

The Monsters are due on Maple Street PowerPoint and Printables. The PowerPoint includes background information on the teleplay, terms used in film making, themes, setting, conflict, foreshadowing, 16 vocabulary words to know, comprehension questions and essay questions. At the end of the slide show, you will find printable activities to support learning: a printable anticipation guide, a printable vocabulary recording sheet to go with the vocabulary slides, and a plot diagram to fill out. - Greg Smith

St. Patrick's Day Write the Room. Cards and Recording sheet. 8 words to write for St. Patrick's Day: gold lucky green Irish rainbow shamrock saint Patrick Two recording sheets - one with pictures and one without for differentiation. Recording sheet has primary lined paper (with dashed middle lines). Includes color and black and white versions. - Greg Smith

Veterans Day. Veterans Day mini book. Fun little mini book about Veterans Day to fill out and put together. 8 pages in the mini book, 4 to a page. Fun activity for Veterans Day. Thank you and enjoy! - Greg Smith Veterans Day | Veterans Day Activities | Veterans Day Activity | Veterans Day Craft| Veterans Day Craftivity | Veterans Holiday | Veterans Day Lesson | Veterans Day | Veterans Day Book | Veterans Day Writing | Veterans Day Reading | Remembrance Day | Remembrance Day Activities | Remembrance Day | Armistice Day Key words: Veterans, Veterans Day, Armistice Day, Remembrance Day

Broken Chain by Gary Soto PowerPoint. Preview, read with included link to the story, and answer comprehension and literary questions with this PowerPoint and get your students ENGAGED in reading the story. Includes vocabulary words for students to investigate, information about the author, background information, words from Spanish activity, a quick write, link to the story, after reading questions, and slides on books by Gary Soto. 18 slides. Students can work on this independently on Chromebooks, in the computer lab, or on the computer at home as well. - Greg Smith