Teaching parts of speech? Help your students reach proficiency with this comprehensive, instructional 21-slide PowerPoint. Presentation addresses all eight parts of speech, including: nouns, verbs, pronouns, prepositions, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, and interjections - 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 parts of speech? Hold your students accountable with the Parts of Speech Test (11 Pages/30 Questions) that addresses all eight parts of speech, including nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. 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. Easy-to-grade 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!
Grammar will be a bore no more with these fun, engaging (40) Parts of Speech Task Cards! Common Core-aligned product addresses all eight parts of speech, including nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. Answer key included. 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!
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 mood and tone? Amp up the fun and proficiency level in your classroom with these (32) Mood and Tone Task Cards. Product addresses mood (the reader’s emotional response) and tone (the author’s attitude) with excerpts from classic and popular literature. Answer key included. This Common Core-aligned product is perfect for standardized test prep and super sub friendly. Task Cards are an effective instructional tool and alternative to boring worksheets!
Teaching mood and tone? Hold your students accountable with the Mood and Tone Test (12 Pages/30 Questions) that addresses mood (the reader’s emotional response) and tone (the author’s attitude) with excerpts from classic and popular literature. 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.
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!
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 “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe? The 93-page The Raven Unit Product Bundle is all you need for a rigorous, engaging Common Core aligned unit. Product includes a 40-slide PowerPoint (editable), 40 Edgar Allan Poe Task Cards, and a 13-page close reading exam test with text and 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 mysterious, melancholic poem. This bundle is super sub friendly. Keep them learning - even when you’re not there!
Teaching inferences? Amp up the fun and proficiency level in your classroom with these (32) Inference (Nonfiction) Task Cards. Product addresses this important reading comprehension skill with excerpts from nonfiction articles that simulate standardized testing questions. Answer key included. This Common Core-aligned product is perfect for standardized test prep and super sub friendly. Task Cards are 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!
Help your students infer proficiently on standardized tests with this comprehensive, instructional 32-Slide PowerPoint: Making Inferences. Presentation addresses test strategies, important signal words, sentence stems, and practice questions with answers. Easy for you - engaging for them!
Teaching inferences? Teach, practice, and assess this important literacy skill with the Inferences PTA Skills Bundle!
The PTA Skills Bundle includes three research-based, best practice products that allow for instruction, practice, and assessment:
PowerPoint - 32 slides
Task Cards - 64 Task Cards (Fiction/Nonfiction)
Assessment - (2) 30-question tests with answer key (Fiction/Nonfiction)
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.
10 Benefits of the PTA Skills Bundle:
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➢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.
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Teaching grammar and revision/editing skills? This bundle is all you need to focus on important concepts of the revision/editing process. Product includes a comprehensive PowerPoint on Revision versus Editing, a Revision/Editing Checklist, Grammar/Revision Task Cards, and a Grammar Warmup PowerPoint to start any class.
If you teach ELA, composition, or creative writing, you and your students will love this product!
Tweens and teens love chills and thrills! The Gothicsm and Suspense Bundle is all you need to for a spine-tingling unit that incorporates reading, writing, speaking, and listening. As a bonus, these lessons are all-inclusive and super sub-friendly. Keep them learning, even when you’re not there!
Product includes:
Gothicism Literature PowerPoint - 23 slides
Southern Gothic Literature PowerPoint - 31 slides
Mystery and Suspense Task Cards - 40 task cards
The Elevator Short Story PowerPoint - 39 slides - (all-inclusive lesson)
Elements of Gothic Literature PowerPoint (22 Slides) is a perfect way to introduce the gothic genre, Frankenstein, Dracula, or the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Presentation includes gothic influences in art and a formative assessment where students try their own hand at writing in the gothic genre. Students love to hear the spooky music as an inspiration to their portentously gloomy stories. Perfect for Halloween writing - or any other time.
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.
Teaching Edgar Allan Poe, Roald Dahl, or the detective story? Add rigor and fun to your unit with these (40) engaging Common Core-aligned Mystery and Suspense Task Cards. Task cards can be used with any gothic, suspense, or mystery story, reinforcing 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!
Tweens and teens love chills and thrills! Kick off a unit - or an exhilarating lesson - of intense suspense with this all-inclusive 38-slide PowerPoint “The Elevator.” Presentation includes the text, anticipatory questions, probable passage, and Common Core aligned discussion/essay questions where students can write their own conclusion.
*This lesson is all-inclusive and sub-friendly. Keep them learning, even when you’re not there!
Teaching Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130? This Bundle is all you need for a comprehensive, all-inclusive week-long unit. Product includes 30-slide PowerPoint, Close Reading Test, and 40-Shakespeare Task Cards (answer key included). All the prep work is done as your students learn about Shakespeare, the sonnet form and structure, Petrarchan conventions, and the satirical thematic message. Students will show their thinking with rigorous discussion questions and writing activities. You will love this Bundle and so will your students! Perfect for an upcoming evolution and super sub friendly - keep them learning even when you’re not there!
Warm up your class with a challenging sentence in need of revision. 51-Slide PowerPoint includes sentences address proofreading concepts such as commas, quotation marks, capitalization, apostrophes, titles of works, run-ons, and spelling. Product includes slides with answers so that you may review with your class.
Perfect for test prep and substitute-friendly!
Teaching revision concepts? Amp up the fun and proficiency level in your classroom with Revision Task Cards. Product includes (40) engaging task cards that cover a variety of common proofreading errors found on standardized tests, including run ons, comma placement, appositives, subject/verb agreement, capitalization, homophones, underlining, quotation marks, etc. Task cards are an effective instructional tool for test prep and a great alternative to boring worksheets! 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!