Cause and Effect Activity

This is a great activity that would take a lot of time to create, and it is ready to go.

Easy to manage independent reading

This looks really good. Can't wait to use it. Thank you, thank you! I've been trying to figure out an alternative to accelerated reader for my middle school students. Emily, you're fabulous! Excellent! I will definetly be using this in the coming year. This is so helpful, even for 9th graders! I was trying to find a way to keep them reading their AR books and this is perfect. Thankyou so much! Great activities to make independant reading meaningful to students yet easy to assess Great .doc.... thanks for the teacher notes, family notes and student notes.

Finding Topics and Main Ideas PowerPoint

Excellent Power Point! You did a wonderful job at breaking the concept down into little pieces. It really gives students a chance to practice each "step" before putting them together to "find the main idea". This is an excellent slideshow. It is kid friendly which means it is easy to understand. Great job!! This is unbelievable! It's the powerpoint I've had "in my head" but never created because it's so much work and so little time! I will definitely check out other products by this person! This is detailed, easy to understand, and provides several examples for practice. Great PPT! Thanks! Very helpful! I will use this in my 5th grade class this year. Thank you. This PowerPoint presentation is certainly clear and definitely gets its very important point across. A good sense of humor helps, too! Great job!

Fun Back to School Poems

I have been looking for lessons on poems. This will be great to start the school yar with. Emily has wonderful work. Creative way to teach LA lessons

Introduction to Comparing

I love your material. I have one request. I would really like to see you take credit in the power point. Teaching being as busy as it is, after a few years I likely won't remember where I got this. If your name were in the notes (and in my case I'll add it), then I could always tell people who made it.

Introduction to Structure: A First Step to Text Structure

Excellent! This is a power point that I will be able to use!!!! Thanks!

Personal Narrative Resources

Very thoughtful, practical, and, most importantly, useful! Thanks for sharing your ideas! I will use this in my 8th grade English classes. Anything by Emily Kissner is top quality. Thanks for sharing your hard work. Amazing-I wish I had had this this last year. I will certainly will use it this year and share with my fellow teachers. Thanks for sharing with us.

Poetry Lesson: The Adventures of Isabel

This is great! Thanks.

Rating Student Behavior: Self-Monitoring

Maybe leaving the goals or areas f concern blank so students can choose what tp put in that area would be good. Overall great!

Retelling and Summarizing: A Guide for Teachers

I love all of Emily's power points and lesson plans. Wow! What a great resource. Thank you Emily

Story Elements Powerpoint

702 downloads and no comments before mine? Hey, from now on when I see your name on a project, I will know it's going to be useful. I just spent three days making a PPT for the Four Factors of Production. It's hard work! I really appreciate your gifts. Just great! Just what I was looking for!

Understanding Fact and Opinion

Thanks for making this. Excellent.

Understanding Figurative Language

If it's created by Emily Kissner, you can bet it's great. How can there be over 500 downloads of this great PPT and no one bothered to rate it and say, "Thank you?" Thank you so much for sharing! great intro or review to fig lang lesson Great powerpoint. The examples are clear and focused. As a review or class entry I will have additional examples of figurative language and invite students to copy language from books they are reading and add to a list. Thank you for the work you put into this!!

Understanding Text Structure Powerpoint

This powerpoint is wonderful! Can't wait to use it in my class. Thanks This Power Point was amazing! It was very thorough, and as exactly what my class needed to explain these concepts to my class. I am so very thankful to Ms. Kissner for sharing it with all of us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Another great slideshow. You make things so easy to understand. This was awesome. Thanks for sharing it! Great powerpoint, thanks! This is an excellent resource! As a math and science teacher, I find many students have difficulty with "technical" text. This is a good starting point for me to help them be more successful in reading textbooks, articles, etc. Thanks! Excellent! I'm going to use this with my 6th graders when we begin our nonfiction unit. Thank you for sharing! Thanks so much for sharing this excellent introduction to an important subject. Thanks so much for sharing this excellent introduction to an important subject. Terrific and thorough walk through for understanding text. Excellent! You should be making money off this!!!! Thanks so much for this wonderful presentation. Wow, this is just awesome. The author is obviously a very dedicated teacher. Presentation was wonderful. Questions at the end were great!

Using Schema To Make Inferences

Thank you! These are great Power Points for Test Prep and helping students with reading comprehension! Wonderful!! Top notch! Thanks for sharing!

Visualizing Powerpoint

This is a great overview of the reading strategy - visualization. I needed something more specific to walk my students through the process, and this is perfect. Thank you! Emily, your Ppt. slideshows are great! Finding your name on this site was my lucky day. I feel like I have stumbled into a gold mine. You should be charging for these! This is a great help. Thanks! Excellent! Thank you! Great product! Well planned and thought out. Very useful for the classroom. Thanks!

Word roots activities

Perfect for the standard for vocabulary this year!