ELA Extras

Whether you are teaching an argumentative, persuasive, or informative essay, you have to teach students how to write an introduction paragraph. Let this presentation do the teaching for you! It includes instructions and examples for how to write a hook, establish background information, and construct a thesis statement. It is easily adaptable into a PearDeck or NearPod, too, if you want students to interact digitally! Like this product? Need some more resources for essay writing season? Check

Engage your students with this comprehensive and creative 14-slide Google Slides template designed for in-depth character analysis of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. Perfect for distance learning or classroom use, this ready-to-assign activity encourages students to go beyond surface-level understanding and analyze the motivations and complexities of key figures in the play. This resource includes analysis sections for three major characters: JulietRomeoFriar LaurenceFormat: ~14 fully editable sl

Do your students struggle with citing their sources, creating in-text citations, and following MLA format? This lesson teaches them about quoting sources, citing and paraphrasing, and avoiding plagiarism! MLA format can be tricky but this lesson keeps it simple and understanding for any level of student! The notes document follows the slides, so students can fill out as you lecture or on their own at their own pace. There is a practice activity included in the lesson with two sample online art

Teach students the basics of how to cite direct quotes and paraphrases using MLA format. This presentation includes information about how to avoid plagiarism and how to format in-text citations. The rules of MLA have changed over the years as have the types of sources students are using for projects and essays. This presentation helps them focus on the basics without confusing them about what to look for when citing sources. There are two sample sources included at the end of the presentation s

Needing to review parts of speech again with your students? Dive deeper into eight different types of nouns from abstract to plural and possessive. This is a great slideshow to review each type of noun with examples included. You can use this slideshow for a teacher-led lesson while students take notes or provide it as a reference tool for students when completing grammar exercises. The different types of nouns included are: Singular Plural Common Proper Possessive Concrete Abstract Collect

When teaching persuasive and argumentative essays or speeches, it is inevitable that you will be talking with students about pathos, logos, and ethos. Students in middle and high school have to learn about the rhetorical triangle and how it is used to build arguments. This resource helps them do that in a fun way! KEY ELEMENTSThis resource puts the responsibility for learning on students and sends them on an investigative hunt for real-world examples of pathos, logos, and ethos. There are so ma

This slideshow is everything you need to explain how students should punctuate dialogue, capitalize the dialogue in their narratives, and the reason why we use dialogue in our creative story writing. The slideshow includes practice sentences for students to write down and punctuate with an answer key provided. You could use this as a writing workshop mini-lesson or you could use it a self-guided lesson for students to complete on their own computers (if available). An easy lesson to use in Pear

This slideshow leads students through identifying subjects and predicates in a sentence. It is a great foundation for understanding sentence structure. Teachers can lecture through it or allow students to go through at their own pace and take notes. This lesson also contains information about compound sentences that contain two subjects and two predicates as well as sentences with compound predicates. There are 11 slides total with example sentences included for student practice.

Help students who have trouble brainstorming ideas for narrative writing by using this plot generator. It is geared for dystopian plots but it can be adapted for any type of creative writing. The slides include ideas for a protagonist, setting, and conflict or plot twist. Students can use all of the slides for ideas or just 1 or 2. Either way, they can move beyond sitting there saying "I don't know what to write about" so much faster with the help of this product.

This presentation covers 11 different ways to start a narrative story and provides examples of each type of lead. Students can use this before starting any type of narrative assignment or as a way to revise their narrative writing during the writing process. Students could take notes from this presentation in a teacher-guided lecture, or they could view the presentation independently and select the type of narrative lead they see in what they are reading or what they will use in their writing.