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Suitable for the assessment of level one reading comprehension but sophisticated enough to escape students who are reading online summaries only. Clean, organized, student friendly. Easy to grade. Tested in the classroom over time by a team of teachers.

In my 14 years as an English teacher, this is the BEST way I have ever found to get all levels of learners in my classroom to successfully break down and decode a poem. PowerPoint is attractive, clear, and user friendly and gives students clear steps in order to understand a poem. Each step comes with application/examples using a popular and relevant song that students can connect to.

Clean organized and student friendly layout. A comprehensive assessment for students reading comprehension of Taming of the Shrew. Questions move beyond basic plot summary. Answer keys also included.

Each reading quiz averages 10 or so questions. Each quiz is part multiple choice and part fill in the blank. Quizzes are designed to check for basic reading comprehension. The nature of the questions evades reading summaries available online. Keys included.

Clean and organized graphic organizers assist with the teaching of characterization and tracing the evolution (or lack thereof) of characters in Taming of the Shrew. Students not only work with appropriate characterization descriptors but support their conclusions with evidence from the play and analyze how the evidence supports the characterization descriptor.

The graphic organizer is a clear way for student to reflect on certain elements of dramatic irony in each act. Students analyze how the element is dramatic irony and what the direct impact is of the dram. irony on the play/plot. (This G.O. is a precursor to the dram. irony assessment given at the end of the play= also avail. for purchase.)

Students apply their understanding of connotation and dentotation to a poem in order to demonstrate how an author's diction choice impacts the text as a whole. Clean, organized, student friendly. Tested in the classroom by a team of teachers over time.

Inspired by a year of making uncomfortable phone calls home about student AI usage with assignments, these two articles, "Workarounds Don't Work Part 1" and "Part 2," provide a student-friendly explanation of the pitfalls and dangers of AI use for academic assignments. This purchase is article 2 of 2. The article comes with guiding questions for students to respond to. Also included is a grading rubric for the responses. The aim is for students to read, critically think, and then write. There is

Inspired by a year of making uncomfortable phone calls home about student AI usage with assignments, these two articles, "Workarounds Don't Work Part 1" and "Part 2," provide a student-friendly explanation of the pitfalls and dangers of AI use for academic assignments. This purchase is article 1 of 2. The article comes with guiding questions for students to respond to. Also included is a grading rubric for the responses. The aim is for students to read, critically think, and then write. There is

Frontload for your students 19 essential poetic devices during any poetry unit. Clean, clear and user friendly: what makes this PPT special is that it gives examples of the device at use from popular and relevant music lyrics. There is also analysis of how the author uses to poetic device in the lyric modeling academic language and analytical rigor.

Intended to partner as a post assessment for the 2 articles, Workarounds Don't Work Parts 1 and 2. This doc is a 10-question reading comprehension assessment. The questions cover the content from both articles. This doc is the assessment with answers (key) that can be easily modified into an assessment that students receive to ensure they read and understand both articles.

This study guide includes developed and thought-provoking questions for each chapter that move beyond level one thinking. Study guide prompts students to move into higher level thinking (Costas and Bloom's upper levels) analyzing, predicting, evaluating, applying and judging (to name a few). Invites and prompts students to dig deep. Study guide helps transition into developed classroom discussion. The study guide is classroom tested over 5 years by a team of teachers.

A clean and user friendly assignment for students to draw parallels between the character Simon and the Bible.

Students look at the denotation of specific diction choices in the short story Cask of Amontillado by Poe and analyze how the word's dentotation influences the text. Clean, organized, and student friendly. Used by a team of teachers in the classroom over time.

Worksheet is clean, organized and user friendly. Students look at imagery clues regarding the Characterization of Lennie and draw conclusions and create analysis as to how Lennie is characterized. Good practice worksheet prior to the administration of a characterization formative and summative assessment (also created and avail. via TPT).

Power Point is intended to be a parallel and guiding tool for students (while reading the play aloud in class). The content helps student spur discussion and comprehension of plot, dramatic irony, imagery, and thematic content. The power point is comprehensive and developed. Classroom tested for over 4 years by a team of English teachers. Clear, organized, and ideal for student note taking.

Students apply their understanding of foreshadowing and infer and predict based on contextual clues given in the play. Acts 1-3.

Assignment tasks students to apply understanding of symbolism to the re-occuring symbol of the jar in the novel. Scoffolding techniques are used: students reflect on their own understanding and background knowledge before analyzing the symbol.

A clear and coherant graphic organizer that has students predict and reflect on each epigram used in the novel (at the beginning of each chapter). A scoffolding tool for pre and post reading for each chapter. Assists with students grasping themes, plot, tone and characterization in the novel

Reading Quizzes that check for level one reading comprehension. The nature of the questions range from the simple to the specifics that an online summary would not have provided. Clean, organized and student friendly. Utilized in the classroom by a team of teachers over a period of years.