Quick Writes are a powerful instructional tool that can be used any time during instruction. Leverage this amazing best practice with the Poetry Quick Write PowerPoint. This 87-slide product includes poignant poems written by Langston Hughes to Emily Dickinson - along with Quick Write Student Directions and Quick Write Turn and Talk Protocols. Each Poetry Quick Write can be employed as a writing activity, a Brain Break, or an amazing lesson launch. You and your students will love this! Seven Benefits of Quick Writes: Quick Writes build student confidence. Quick Writes increase engagement and decreases lesson anxiety. Quick Writes Improve student stamina and fluency in writing. Quick Writes strengthen relationships in class community. Quick Writes develop writer’s voice. Quick Writes foster a habit of writing: engages critical thinking, promotes reflection, amplifies creativity. Quick Writes synthesize content.

Teaching text features? Amp up the fun and proficiency level in your classroom with a comprehensive set of Text Features Task Cards. These (32) Common Core-aligned task cards challenge your students to identify and understand the purpose behind text features with real life scenarios. Task Cards can be analyzed in pairs, groups, literacy centers, or whole class instruction. Answer key included. A fun, effective instructional tool and alternative to boring worksheets! Perfect for ELA test prep. Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use; no gluing required!

Teaching puns? Hold your students accountable with the Pun ELA Test. This Common Core-aligned assessment will let you know in no time who is advanced, proficient, basic, and below basic in identifying puns, an important ELA figurative language 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! 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 Tip: Save trees and time! Make one class set of the tests and have students use a multiple choice answer sheet that can be scanned. Happy Assessing!

Kick off The House on Mango Street with this comprehensive, student-friendly 45-slide PowerPoint that piques students’ interest in Esperanza’s coming-of-age story. Slides include background information, discussion questions, and engaging literary analysis tasks. Presentation can last up to the entire unit as it includes engaging Common Core writing activities and quotations from the book. You and your students will love this!

Teaching Gary Soto’s poem, “Oranges”? 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 Gary Soto, anticipation questions, the text, rigorous discussion/essay questions and engaging writing activities. Your students will love this rite-of-passage poem about first love. *This lesson is all-inclusive and sub-friendly. Keep them learning, even when you’re not there!

Teaching Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? Kick off this groundbreaking classic with a comprehensive, student-friendly 45-slide PowerPoint that is guaranteed to pique students’ interest. Slides include informative facts on Mark Twain, themes, symbols, character descriptions, and discussion/essay questions. Presentation can last up to the entire unit as it includes engaging Common Core essays and writing activities.

Teaching To Kill a Mockingbird? Kick off this groundbreaking classic with a comprehensive, student-friendly 50-slide PowerPoint that is guaranteed to pique students’ interest. Slides include informative facts on Harper Lee, themes, symbols, character descriptions, and discussion/essay questions. Presentation can last up to the entire unit as it includes engaging Common Core essays and writing activities.

Teaching The Twilight Zone play, “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street?” Introduce this gripping play of suspense and conformity with an engaging, student-friendly 36-slide PowerPoint. Presentation includes facts on The Twilight Zone, pre-reading vocabulary, teleplay terms, anticipation questions, themes, and Common Core aligned discussion/essay questions that will take you through the entire unit.

Teaching “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros? This 47-slide Common Core-aligned PowerPoint includes everything you need: short story text, facts on Sandra Cisneros, character descriptions, literary elements, and discussion questions that enhance analysis of this thematically rich text. Super sub friendly - Keep them learning even when you’re not there!

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.

Combine word work into word fun with the Boggle 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. 38-slide product includes rules/directions, easy to score point scale, and ELA/school themes for an extra culturally relevant challenge.

Combine word work into word fun with the ELA Word Game PowerPoint - that includes Boggle, Rebus Puzzles, and Scattergories! Students will be fully engaged with this interactive, fun product that makes you “the cool teacher” while increasing critical thinking and word proficiency. Perfect for a bell ringer, brain break, or building community activity. 65-slide product includes rules/directions for each game and easy to score point scale. Your students will love this!

Students love learning about fears and phobias! Now you can leverage their interest with the Fears and Phobias PowerPoint Lesson (Common Core-aligned). Product includes 36-slide PowerPoint on the etymology of phobias, common (and not-so-common) Greek/Latin phobias, a fun Check for Understanding quiz (answer key included), and an opportunity to create their own phobia word. You and your students will love this lesson. Perfect for Halloween or an upcoming evaluation!

Students love games, so combine word work into word fun with the Scattergories PowerPoint! Students will be fully engaged with this interactive, fun instructional game that makes you “the cool teacher!” Perfect for a bell ringer, brain break, or building community activity. 41-slide, no-prep product includes rules/directions for easy scoring.

Teaching textual evidence using the A.C.E. strategy? Kick off your this research-based, best practice strategy with the 34-slide PowerPoint lesson. Product includes an easy-to-understand breakdown of A.C.E. (Answer, Cite, Explain), why it is important to include textual evidence when writing, and useful passage examples with answers. Perfect for reinforcing this important tool in any subject!

Teaching Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”? This 31-slide PowerPoint is all you need to guarantee an engaging, rigorous Common Core-aligned unit. Slides include background information on O’Connor, Southern gothic conventions, symbols, irony, discussion questions, and an engaging writing activity. Perfect for American or AP Literature.