A fun, interactive introduction to beginnings/endings or introductions/conclusions. Includes how-to successfully "hook" readers, pull readers in, a... ByBeth Hammett
Are commas alien to your students and their writings? Are there not enough or too many commas? This PPT will take students through each of the comm... ByBeth Hammett
2 PowerPoints in one:
Author's Style focuses on imitating the styles of the author to enhance sentence variety skills. It has examples and activit... ByBeth Hammett
Teach writers to use a mixture of techniques to add description. Includes: Poetry terminology such as similes, metaphors, adjectives, adverbs, onom... ByBeth Hammett
An interactive, engaging 15 slide PowerPoint that defines and illustrates irony. Includes definition, everyday, and real life examples with photos... ByBeth Hammett
Introduce Pre-K through fifth graders to the concepts of compare and contrast with these easy to follow, fun, interactive sheets. Students use gro... ByBeth Hammett
An interactive 15-slide presentation with student workshopping activities (tell about a time,brainstorm topics,peer workshopping)and complete step-... ByBeth Hammett
Introduce students/teachers to learning styles, identify learning styles through online assessment or through the slide assessment. Then, learn way... ByBeth Hammett
Introducing Semi-Colons, Colons, Dashes, and Hyphens with definitions, examples, workshopping, and peer workshopping. This PowerPoint gives student... ByBeth Hammett
Students will produce meaningful narratives from personal memories by creating life maps, narrowing topics, reading their works aloud, doing peer w... ByBeth Hammett
Get students ready for the Thanksgiving season with 25 coloring sheets. Includes Thanksgiving banners, pumpkins, pilgrims, ships, hat, Indians, ma... ByBeth Hammett
Connect real-life writing to process writing by having students "Write an Award Winning Business Letter". The fifteen slide PowerPoint lists the p... ByBeth Hammett
A review of ten presidents that changed history (Lincoln, Kennedy, Roosevelt, and more). Includes facts, visuals, coloring handouts, supplemental r... ByBeth Hammett
A quick PowerPoint presentation composed of six slides to help writers understand their work from readers' perspectives. The analogy of learning to... ByBeth Hammett
An excellent cummulative assignment to assess and help students with short story elements, inferencing, characterization, plot, point of view, dial... ByBeth Hammett
Defines the term "paragraph" plus how to build paragraphs along with different types of paragraphs and relationship words for each. Included are: ... ByBeth Hammett
Group activities, videos, and a game, along with extra resources, help teach plagiarism in fun ways! Defines plagiarism, gives famous people and st... ByBeth Hammett
Fun handouts for elementary students to color, fill in, and write on Groundhog Day. Simple and easy activities to reinforce Groundhog Day lesson pl... ByBeth Hammett
Introduce the five elements of story by having students star in their own narrative movie! A fun themed narrative writing assignment that uses intr... ByBeth Hammett