Mastering Middle School

Introduce your students to active and passive voice sentences with the frequently used technique of adding "by zombies." Your students will love being able to avoid the passive voice zombie invasion by learning to identify passive voice and convert it to active voice. This PowerPoint includes nine slides which include the introduction of the concept and two slides full of guided practice. Save time by printing the answer key for the guided practice that is included in the zip file. The P

Help your students understand the different ways to indicate a short pause or break in a sentence. This PowerPoint presentation walks your through the use of the comma, the ellipsis, and the dash. There is also a notes page for your students to use to follow along with your presentation. Please make sure to preview the presentation first as it does contain animations. If you like this product, click below to see our other L.8.2 and L.8.2a products: Task Cards for Commas, Ellipses, and D

Introduce your students to verb moods. This 29 slide instructional PowerPoint covers the indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive verb moods. This lesson helps meet the demands of CCSS L.8.1c. Included are many opportunities to identify the various verb moods. Click below for our other Verb Mood products: Verb Mood Task Cards - Common Core aligned Verb Mood - a Common Core worksheet Verb Mood - a Common Core worksheet Part 2 Verb Mood - a Common Core assessment

This bundle contains everything you need to teach gerunds and their functions. There are multiple activities to help your students practice at a variety of levels until they are able to reach mastery of this challenging standard. This lesson is aligned with the common core standard on verbals. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.1.A Explain the function of verbals (GERUNDS, participles, infinitives) in general and their function in particular sentences. This bundle includes the following: 1. A 33 slide inst

This bundle contains everything you need to teach infinitives and their functions. There are multiple activities to help your students practice at a variety of levels until they are able to reach mastery of this challenging standard. This lesson is aligned with the common core standard on verbals. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.1.A Explain the function of verbals (gerunds, participles, INFINITIVES) in general and their function in particular sentences. This bundle includes the following: 1. A 20 sli

Help your students reach mastery with this complete instructional bundle on the different verb moods: indicative, imperative, interrogative, conditional, and subjunctive. Verb mood is a new concept at the 8th grade level under the Common Core standards. This discounted bundle gives you everything you need to teach Verb Mood. Click below if you wish to purchase each Verb Mood product separately: Verb Mood Instructional PowerPoint - Common Core aligned Verb Mood Task Cards - Common Core a

This is a MEGA verbal unit. Included in this bundle are ALL of our verbal units (over 190 pages of materials!) to help your students master verbals. This is a HUGE value. This product contains the following: 3 Instructional PowerPoints - infinitives - gerunds - participles 3 Sets of Task Cards - infinitives - gerunds - participles Worksheets for all verbals at multiple levels Complete Assessments Complete Verbal Review Complete Verbal Final Assessment. Buying this bundle offers huge savings

Help your students understand how to use ellipses for omission. This PowerPoint presentation walks your students through the usage of ellipses to omit in the beginning, middle, and end of a quote. In addition, this PowerPoint covers how to omit a sentence, sentences, whole paragraphs, and even lines of poetry. There is also a notes page for your students to use to follow along with your presentation. Please make sure to preview the presentation first as it does contain animations. We hope

This product is an editable Back to School PowerPoint with 38 slides. Covered are basic rules and procedures to help your students meet your expectations and rock this school year! The following is included: * A complete PowerPoint - Feel free to edit to personalize it or use as is * A template of the PowerPoint - This is the exact same presentation but most of the content has been removed to make for easy editing * A test on rules and procedures - This quiz is also editable. Just replace

This bundle contains everything you need to teach participles and their functions. There are multiple activities to help your students practice at a variety of levels until they are able to reach mastery of this challenging standard. This lesson is aligned with the common core standard on verbals. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.1.A Explain the function of verbals (gerunds, PARTICIPLES, infinitives) in general and their function in particular sentences. This bundle includes the following: 1. An instruct

Introduce your students to participles and their functions with this instructional PowerPoint. This is part of our unit that we use to dig deeper into verbals. This humorous PowerPoint uses Internet memes to grab your students' attention and will walk your students through the world of participles and participial phrases. Included are 24 slides that incorporate guided and independent practice to help your students achieve mastery. We have also included a student note page that follows the Pow

Introduce your students to gerunds and their functions with this instructional PowerPoint. This is part of our unit that we use to dig deeper into verbals. This PowerPoint will walk your students through the world of gerunds. We begin with basic gerund and then progress to gerund phrases and detail the functions of gerunds in sentences, (subject, subject complements, direct objects, indirect objects, and objects of the preposition) Included are 33 slides that incorporate guided and indepen

Introduce your students to infinitives and their functions with this instructional PowerPoint. This is part of our unit that we use to dig deeper into verbals. This PowerPoint will walk your students through the world of infinitives, beginning with the basic to + verb, infinitive phrases, and the challenging function of infinitives. Included are 20 slides that incorporate guided and independent practice to help your students achieve mastery. The PowerPoint includes a large amount of anima