Teaching how to write a thesis to students? It can be daunting - but with the How to Write a Thesis Statement PowerPoint, you have everything you need for an exemplary lesson! Common Core-aligned Product includes 34 slides on what makes a strong thesis statement, steps for writing a thesis statement, tips and tricks, multiple CFU’s (Checks for Understanding), and a Bridge to Practice Formative Assessment. Your students will be ready to get their research on in no time!
Teaching the Unreliable Narrator as a plot device? Turn your students into literary scholars with this comprehensive 54-slide Unreliable Narrator PowerPoint. Common Core-aligned product addresses types of unreliable narrators, literary tropes, feminism theory of the unreliable narrator, and a direct instruction activity with Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.”
Kick off Shakespeare’s Macbeth with a comprehensive, student-friendly 62-slide PowerPoint that is guaranteed to pique students’ interest in this classic tragedy. Common-Core aligned product includes informative facts on Shakespeare, the Globe Theater, character descriptions, quotations, symbols, theme, and deep-thinking essay questions. Presentation will last the entire unit.
Teaching sequencing as a literacy and reading comprehension skills? Teach, practice, and assess this important concept with the 75-page Sequencing Bundle for everything you need.
This Common Core-aligned Bundle includes three research-based, best practice products that allow for instruction, practice, and assessment:
PowerPoints - 35 slides
Task Cards - 30 Task Cards
Assessment - 30-question test with answer key
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.
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 Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”? This 38-slide all-inclusive Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 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 Langston Hughes’ “Madam and the Rent Man”? Amp the rigor and literary analysis with the comprehensive Madam and the Rent Man TPCASTT PowerPoint Lesson. Product includes 30 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 Shakespeare’s Sonnets? Amp the rigor and literary analysis with the comprehensive Sonnet 134 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.
Perfect for an evaluation lesson or sub plans! Keep them learning even when you’re not there!
Teaching poetry? Amp the rigor and literary analysis with the Poetry PowerPoint Bundle (Over 150 slides). This no-prep, ready-to-teach unit includes (5) exemplary PowerPoint lessons on the following:
Edgar Allan Poe - The Haunted Palace
Langston Hughes - Dreams
Langston Hughes - Madam and the Rent Man
Gwendolyn Brooks - We Real Cool
William Shakespeare - Sonnet 134
Each PowerPoint is grounded in 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 Emily Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”? Amp the rigor and literary analysis with the comprehensive “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” PowerPoint Lesson. Product includes 23 slides addressing background information on Dickinson, vocabulary, symbols, theme, literary analysis, complete text, text dependent-questions/answers, and writing challenge.
Perfect for an evaluation lesson or sub plans! Keep them learning even when you’re not there!
Teaching Emily Dickinson’s “Wild Nights - Wild Nights!”? Amp the rigor and literary analysis with the comprehensive “Wild Nights - Wild Nights!” PowerPoint Lesson. Product includes 27 slides addressing background information on Dickinson, symbols, theme, literary analysis, complete text, text dependent-questions/answers, and writing challenge.
Perfect for an evaluation lesson or sub plans! Keep them learning even when you’re not there!
Teaching topic, theme, and thesis? Demystify these easily confused literary concepts with this informative, student-friendly 27-Slide PowerPoint.
Presentation provides definitions, literary examples, and a tried and true formula for writing a literary thesis statement that ANY student can understand.
Before you know it, your students will be T.T.T. certified and ready to analyze any work of literature.
Teaching Lord of the Flies? Kick off this riveting classic about good versus evil with a comprehensive, student-friendly 36-slide PowerPoint that is guaranteed to pique students’ interest. Slides include informative facts on William Golding, themes, symbols, character descriptions, and captivating scenes from film adaptations.
Presentation will last for the entire unit as it includes engaging Common Core essays and writing activities that are sure to foster rich discussion and debate.
Idioms are everywhere! Teach the universal concept of idioms with this engaging, interactive 30-slide PowerPoint. Presentation introduces the concept with humorous examples and kid-friendly pictures. Check for understanding as your students analyze popular idioms, write sentences, and illustrate both the literal and figurative meaning.
Great for English Learning students, too!!
Kids love Halloween! Amp up the chills and thrills factor with the Halloween Haiku PowerPoint as students learn to brainstorm, write, and edit poetry. Product includes 30 slides on the background of haikus, fun Halloween facts, the haiku structure, Halloween haiku writing tips, examples, editing techniques, and tasks. You and your students will love this!
This Common Core-aligned lesson is perfect for an evaluation lesson or sub plans! Keep them learning even when you’re not there!
Teaching fact and opinion? Help your students reach proficiency with the interactive, instructional 21-slide PowerPoint: “Fact and Opinion.” Presentation addresses each concept along with important signal words to look for on standardized tests. Assess your students with a formative/summative review that will let you know their comprehension level. Easy for you - engaging for them!
Teaching theme? Amp up the fun and proficiency level of your students with (40) Fable Theme Task Cards. Student can read the fun, pithy fables and analyze the theme in pairs, groups, or whole class instruction. An effective instructional tool and 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!
Teaching characterization? Amp up the fun and proficiency level in your classroom with these (32) Characterization Task Cards where traits are revealed through S.T.E.A.L. (Speech, Thoughts, Effect on Others, Actions, and Looks). Answer key included. Task Cards are an effective instructional tool and alternative to boring worksheets! Perfect for standardized test prep and super sub friendly.
Bonus: Go green! Laminated task cards can be used year after year. My task cards are ready to use; no gluing required!
Teaching Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol? Assess your students’ comprehension and writing with A Christmas Carol: Scrooge’s Diary Assignment. Product includes a rigorous, engaging assignment where students write from the perspective a Scrooge after his spiritual transformation. The fun challenge is students must include (10) words from Victorian England (list included). Product also includes a ready-to-go writing rubric and self-editing checklist based on the research-based Six Traits of Writing: Ideas, Organization, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Voice, and Conventions. Perfect for a summative assessment yet fun enough for the holidays!