Along with a lined copy of the story, there's a PowerPoint that focuses on characterization, drawing inferences while providing textual evidence, and generating hypotheses. There are also two handouts that correspond to the PowerPoint. Learning is focused on characterization and using textual evidence.

Lined poem, key vocabulary, discussion and reading questions, and a short writing prompt.

PowerPoint breaks down key vocabulary and poses discussion questions. Handout has comprehension questions, analysis of textual evidence, interpretation of similes, short writing prompt.

Handout with comprehension questions, analysis of literary devices, vocabulary in-context activity, and writing prompt.

Discussion questions, comprehension questions, analysis of imagery, and writing prompt.

Handout to scaffold and support students in writing clear, concise, and creative topic sentences.

PowerPoint analysing character development, theme, and narration and perspective. Discussion questions and writing prompt.

Easy, printable vocabulary bingo game to review common words in Shakespeare's works

Handout to help students skim for unfamiliar vocabulary and use context clues to determine the meaning, then checking their answers with a dictionary. Can be used with any text.

For KS3: Lesson with handout pre-reading questions, text, and post-reading discussion questions. PowerPoint includes vocabulary and lesson on varying sentences lengths for pacing and creating tension, reviewing participles and introducing students to mentor sentences.

Ice breaker bingo boards for the first days back at school.

PowerPoint including vocabulary for dictionary races; review of personification; discussion questions; table to identify and interpret uses of personification; short writing prompt. Printable graphic organiser handout to correspond to personification table.

Poetry graphic organiser that works with any poem. Helps students analyse historical context, paraphrasing, literary devices, mood and tone, and rhyme and meter.

This poetry resource includes a handout that contains lined versions of the poems, guiding questions and graphic organizers regarding theme, imagery, symbolism, and tone; and writing assignments to compare, contrast, and interpret allusion and intertextuality. PowerPoint contains essential vocabulary and literary terms, historical context, discussion questions, three writing assignments.

This PowerPoint and foldable activity explicitly demonstrates to students the difference between paraphrasing and analysis. It breaks down the poem line by line, analysing each use of imagery in the poem, culminating in a PEEL paragraph writing prompt.

Short PowerPoint and handout asking students to break down relevant vocabulary, identify major themes,

PowerPoint presentation, notes organiser, and 5 worksheets to practice the rules of apostrophes.

These task cards are intended to be used with any fiction text: poem or prose. Print them and cut them out; they are intended to be two-sided, with a colorful number on one side and a corresponding close reading question on the flip side, and then laminated. They are best used in groups or stations, as the questions are of varying depths of analysis. Sentence frames are provided as supports on many cards.

Pass these out at the beginning of the lesson. Students must use them to participate in whole class or group discussion. Use them in place of exit tickets. Great way to scaffold for ELL. Laminate them and re-use them!

3 sets of 24 blank task cards. Each set comes with custom front and back. Print, laminate back-to-back, and cut them out. They work best if cut out before and after laminating, although an extra time-consuming step. Use permanent marker and wash for re-use!