Do you coach, lead, or inspire teachers? Now you can help empower teachers and build capacity with the Instructional Coach PowerPoint Guide. Product includes a 34-slide PowerPoint that address roles of the instructional coach, onboarding, coaching cycle components, sample questioning stems, setting smart goals, and coaching tips and tricks! This is a must-have resource for any coach or leader!
Teaching Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”? Introduce Shirley Jackson’s classic story of conformity with this engaging, student-friendly 30-slide PowerPoint. Presentation includes facts on Shirley Jackson, themes, symbols, character descriptions, and Common Core aligned discussion/essay questions.
Teaching T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”? This 40-slide all-inclusive PowerPoint is all you need to guarantee an engaging, rigorous Common Core-aligned lesson on this complex text. Slides include background information on T.S. Eliot, characteristics of Modernism, a stanza-by-stanza analysis, and rigorous discussion/essay questions. Perfect for AP Literature.
Teaching Bram Stoker’s Dracula? Elevate this literary horror classic with a comprehensive, student-friendly 38-slide Dracula PowerPoint that is guaranteed to pique students’ interest in both the genre and novel. Slides include informative facts on Stoker, anticipatory questions, themes, symbols, and analytical discussion questions/answers. Product is Common Core-aligned and editable.
Every brain needs a Brain Break! Now you can have a bank of Movement and Silent Brain Breaks at your finger tips with the 55-Slide Brain Break Bank PowerPoint - including a Dance Party, Would You Rather, Human Knot, Snowball Fight, and Invisible Ball Toss. Perfect for grades 5-12.
Best practice research shows giving students Brain Breaks can:
Increase creativity
Improve mood and motivation
Restore energy and support learning
Reduce boredom, stress, anxiety
Help kids focus and be more productive
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!
“Nevermore” has there been a more engaging PowerPoint for Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.” Presentation hits Common Core objectives as students engage in building background, vocabulary review, deep thinking comprehension questions, and a culminating activity where students make their own symbol crest. PowerPoint contains built-in differentiation for remedial or ELL classes.* A perfect presentation for an upcoming evaluation as you and your students will perform like literary stars.
*Text in red shows differentiation for lower-level classes.
Teaching those pesky punctuation marks? Hold your students accountable with the Punctuation Mark Assessment Test that addresses all (14) punctuation marks, including the often forgotten hyphens, dashes, slashes, ellipses, and parentheses!
This Common Core-aligned (30)-question 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! Answer key included.
Punctuation Mark Assessment Test addresses the following punctuation marks:
Period
Question mark
Exclamation point
Comma
Colon
Semicolon
Dash
Brackets
Braces
Parentheses
Apostrophe
Quotation marks
Ellipsis
Hyphen
Tweens and teens love chills and thrills! Kick off “The Landlady” with this engaging, student-friendly 38-slide PowerPoint. Presentation includes facts on Roald Dahl, pre-reading vocabulary, prediction questions, character descriptions, and Common Core aligned discussion/essay questions.
Students love chills and thrills!! Combine literary analysis and spine-tingleing stories with the Halloween Literature PowerPoint Bundle. Common Core-aligned product includes PowerPoints on Poe’s “The Tell Tale Heart,” “Annabel Lee,” Roald Dahl’s "The LandLady, W.W. Jacobs’ “The Monkey’s Paw,” and a bonus PowerPoint on gothic literature, which will give your students an opportunity to write their own spooky story. You and your students will love this!
170 Slides
Archetypes are everywhere in literature! Take your students to the next level with this comprehensive, engaging 88-slide PowerPoint on all the major archetypes, including character, symbol, and the heroic journey. Before you know it, your students will be analyzing literature like college professors! A perfect instructional tool for A.P./honors classes.
Teaching Homer’s The Odyssey need not be an “epic” challenge with this comprehensive, student-friendly 72-slide PowerPoint. Presentation includes informative facts on Homer, epic conventions, themes, symbols, scenes from film adaptations, character descriptions, and rigorous Common Core aligned essay questions that will take you through the entire unit.
You and your students will love this!
All educators know the value of giving feedback - but what exactly is the difference between formative and summative assessments and how does it look in the classroom? This 32-slide Professional Development PowerPoint is a comprehensive tutorial of Formative and Summative Assessments that can be adapted to any content or classroom. Product includes the fundamentals of assessing students, tips for giving feedback, and (10) fun and fabulous Formative Assessments that can be used in any class. Perfect for instructional coaching, professional development, or New Teacher Induction programs.
Teaching Emily Dickinson’s “Hope Is a Thing With Feathers”? Amp the rigor and literary analysis with the comprehensive “Hope Is a Thing With Feathers” PowerPoint Lesson. Product includes 24 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 Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart?” Kick off this suspenseful classic with a comprehensive, student-friendly 30-slide PowerPoint that is guaranteed to pique students’ interest. Slides include informative facts on Edgar Allan Poe, themes, symbols, character descriptions, and captivating scenes from the film adaptation. Presentation includes engaging Common Core essays and writing activities.
All educators know the value of Differentiation! But what does it actually look like in the classroom? This 42-slide Professional Development PowerPoint is a comprehensive tutorial of Differentiation that can be adapted to any content or classroom. Product includes the fundamentals of differentiating content, product, process, and learning environment and a useful Problems of Practice assessment. Perfect for instructional coaching, professional development, or New Teacher Induction programs.
Expressly designed for 6-12th graders, Create a Bookmark that can be used as a chapter check or a culminating reading activity, perhaps in lieu of the ordinary book report. Create a Bookmark that reinforces literacy and common core language arts standards, while allowing for individual expression. It is a student/teacher-friendly, hands-on classroom resource that includes the following elements:
• Title
• Author
• Theme of book
• Character quotation
• Scene from the book
• Summary of the book
You will set a positive tone while establishing your classroom procedures with this student-friendly 25-slide presentation on rules and expectations. Slides cover all the middle and high school hot-button topics, such as bathroom, food/gum, bullying, cell phone, etc., along with Bonus Classroom Memes for a little added humor. PowerPoint template can be used for any subject or grade. Simply “fill in the blanks” with your own particulars. A must-needed gem for every secondary teacher!!
Tickle your students’ funny bones as you teach the universal concept of puns with this engaging, interactive 50-slide PowerPoint. Presentation introduces the concept of wordplay and has tons of humorous examples with kid-friendly pictures. Students will analyze the puns as they discuss or write out their double meaning. Your students will love this!!
Puns are everywhere in our society. Great for English Language Learners, too.
Do you want to integrate Drop Everything and Read into your classroom routine but not sure how to go about it? Now with the 52-slide Drop Everything and Read PowerPoint, you have your roadmap! Product includes Tips and Tricks, Benefits, How to Create a Classroom Library and Book Nook, and ready-to-go D.E.A.R. Discussion Questions/Activities. This Common Core-aligned product is a must-have for any English teacher!
Did you know implementing D.E.A.R. on a regular basis will…
Help develop lifelong readers by giving students voice and choice in what they read
Increase reading comprehension
Build vocabulary
Build background knowledge
Improve writing skills
Foster classroom community