Teaching text features? Hold your students accountable with the Text Features Assessment Test. 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. (30) 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

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 the concept of irony? Help your students understand this literary device with the 30-slide PowerPoint: Isn’t It Ironic? Presentation addresses verbal, situational, and dramatic irony with examples and kid-friendly pictures. Students will have an opportunity to show what they have learned as they analyze Shel Silverstein’s ironic poem, “Smart.” A wonderful review for standardized test prep. You and your students will love this!

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!

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.

Teaching John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”? This 40-slide all-inclusive PowerPoint is all you need to guarantee an engaging, rigorous Common Core-aligned lesson. Slides include background information on Keats and Romanticism, vocabulary review, the text, analysis on craft and structure, rigorous discussion/essay questions and engaging writing activities. Your students will love this classic ode that has captivated audiences for generations. Perfect for British or AP Literature. *This lesson is all-inclusive and sub-friendly. Keep them learning, even when you’re not there!

Teaching Edgar Allan Poe’s “Annabel Lee”? Assess your students’ comprehension level and access higher order thinking skills with the “Annabel Lee” Close Reading Test (11 Pages). Questions include multiple choice, short answers, and a rigorous five-paragraph essay on the thematic message. This product is Common Core aligned, all-inclusive, and super sub friendly - keep them learning even when you’re not there! Answer key included. Close reading is a high yield strategy that ensures maximum literary benefits and proficiency as seen in increased test scores.

Teaching transitional words and phrases? Introduce this important fluency skill with the 30-slide Transitional Words and Phrases PowerPoint. Student-friendly product covers additive, adversative, causal, and sequential transitions with examples and writing practice. Need more Transitional Words and Phrases products? Check out my bundle: Transitional Words and Phrases Bundle. A must have for every English teacher!

Kick off your literature class with The Seven Basic Plots PowerPoint (40 Slides) based on Christopher Booker’s renowned book used in college classrooms across the country. Product addresses each plot archetype with the meta-plot, examples from literature, and summary. Plot archetypes include the following: 1 - Overcoming the Monster 2 - Rags to Riches 3 - The Quest 4 - Voyage and Return 5 - Comedy 6 - Tragedy 7 - Rebirth Your students will be discussing and writing about literature like college professors in no time! Perfect for an introduction to AP English or American/English literature, this is the reference no serious English teacher should be without!

Teaching foreshadowing and flashback? Ensure that your students understand these two important narrative devices with a comprehensive 32-slide Foreshadowing and Flashback PowerPoint. Product includes definitions, examples using classic and contemporary literary passages, interactive answers, and an opportunity to write their own foreshadowing/flashback paragraphs as a formative/summative assessment.

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!

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 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.

Teaching “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes? Introduce the riveting short story with this engaging 50-slide PowerPoint. Common Core-aligned product includes facts on Daniel Keyes, anticipation questions, vocabulary review, literary elements, discussion questions, and writing activities that enhance analysis of this thematically rich text.

Hygge is the Danish word meaning “Comfort or coziness that engenders well-being.” Teaching haikus? Now your students can beat the winter blues with fun and engaging Hygge Poetry Haikus! Ready-to-go 14-page packet includes clear directions, Hygge Haiku Word Bank, Imagery graphic organizer, Hygge Haiku writing page, and an easy-to-score grading rubric for you! You and your students will absolutely love this! Perfect for an evaluation lesson or sub plans! Keep them learning even when you’re not there!

Teaching Antigone? Introduce this archetypal Greek tragedy with a comprehensive, engaging 38-slide PowerPoint. Product includes informative facts on Sophocles, Ancient Greek theater, the dramatic structure, characters, setting, themes, and Common Core aligned text-dependent discussion questions. You and your students will love this!

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.”