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 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.

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.

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 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.

Teaching Langston Hughes’ “Dreams”? Amp the rigor and literary analysis with the comprehensive Dreams TPCASTT PowerPoint Lesson. Product includes 27 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.

Teaching Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”? This 30-slide all-inclusive 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 persuasion and modes of rhetoric? Make sure your students understand the basics of ethos, pathos, and logos with these (40) engaging task cards. Common Core-aligned product includes (20) Q/A task cards with examples of each mode of rhetoric and (20) writing tasks where students will need to determine the best argumentation strategy. 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!

Teaching those pesky punctuation marks? Hold your students accountable with the Punctuation Mark Assessment Test that addresses all (14) punctuation marks, including the often forgotten hyphens, dashes, slashes, ellipses, and parentheses! This Common Core-aligned (30)-question 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. 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! Answer key included. Punctuation Mark Assessment Test addresses the following punctuation marks: Period Question mark Exclamation point Comma Colon Semicolon Dash Brackets Braces Parentheses Apostrophe Quotation marks Ellipsis Hyphen

Teaching Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol? Kick off this time-honored classic with a comprehensive, student-friendly 32-slide PowerPoint that is guaranteed to pique students’ interest. Slides include informative facts on Charles Dickens, Victorian London, themes, and character descriptions. Presentation can last up to the entire unit as it includes engaging Common Core essays and writing activities.

Teaching apostrophes? Alleviate student apostrophe stress (and yours) with this comprehensive, instructional 16-slide PowerPoint: “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Apostrophes.” Presentation addresses each apostrophe rule 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!

Tweens and teens love chills and thrills! Kick off “The Landlady” with this engaging, student-friendly 38-slide PowerPoint. Presentation includes facts on Roald Dahl, pre-reading vocabulary, prediction questions, character descriptions, and Common Core aligned discussion/essay questions.

Teaching end marks and sentence types? Help your students reach proficiency in no time with the comprehensive, instructional PowerPoint: “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About End Marks.” Presentation addresses each sentence type (declarative, imperative, interrogative, exclamatory) and end mark rules 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 author’s style with mood versus tone? This is a literary concept often addressed on standardized tests. Make sure your students are test-ready with this comprehensive, interactive 38-slide PowerPoint that includes numerous 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 Sherlock Holmes’s The Hound of the Baskervilles? Assess your students’ comprehension level and access higher order thinking skills with this Final Exam Test (10 Pages). Questions include multiple choice, short answer, and a rigorous five-paragraph essay. Common Core aligned. Answer key included.

Teaching Southern Gothic literature? This 31-slide PowerPoint is a perfect introduction to To Kill a Mockingbird, As I Lay Dying, or Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” Product includes information on the tropes of Southern Gothic literature, authors, themes, and engaging writing tasks incorporating this genre’s distinctive motifs.