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This is a COMPLETE novel study for Walter Dean Myers' MONSTER. It contains everything you need to teach the novel from start to finish. Includes: 32 slide Pre-Reading Prezi with activities and non internet required video clips to get the students hooked into the book (with Handout) Author background sheet on Walter Dean Myers Vocabulary Words identified and defined for each chapter 4 pages Vocab activity for all using context clues (With answer key 8 pagesy) 6 pages of Vocab Quizzes for each c

This product is a 56 question test for The Outsiders It includes: Character Matching Place Events in the correct order True/False Multiple Choice 1 Short answer Answer key is included! Want a self checking digital test version??? Google Forms Final Outsiders TestMore Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Resources: Complete Outsiders Novel Study with answer keysThe Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Chapter Questions with Answer KeyWord Clouds for each chapter of The Outsiders by S.E. HintonThe Outsiders Final Test wi

My current best selling item is my bell work. I had been using the same bell work slides for 3 years and I was starting to get a little bored. On top of that I felt like I was missing some topics and wanted to bulk up other topics! This new product almost triples the slides from my other product! This product is 545 slides of Daily Bellwork for the English classroom with answer key! It covers: Inference Figurative Language Conflict Symbolism Point of View Irony Tone and Mood Plot Static and Dyn

I have been teaching writing for the past 7 years using a version of Step-up-to-Writing with great success. Step-up-to-Writing uses colors to teach the parts of a paragraph/essay. With this packet students are given a page for each of the definitions for parts of a paragraph along with hints/ words lists for raising them to a new level instead of the standard sentence structure. (Who doesn't get tired of hearing "That's why Lebron James is my favorite athlete" a thousand times?) Then student

This product includes everything you need to introduce and dive into the topic of Author's Tone and Mood! It includes: ---Tone and Mood Prezi with handouts ---Brief introduction to Tone and Mood using music PowerPoint ---Tone and Mood in songs activity ---Write in different Tones activity ---20 question Tone test (with answer key) --Tone and Mood Differentiated questioning ---Tone and Mood lesson plan Happy Tone and Mood teaching! Check out my lesson plan for this unit to learn more detail

We don’t make inference just in literature. We also need to make inferences in songs. Song artists tend to leave some things to the imagination/inference. This product asks students to make inferences in 8 popular songs about what the artists are NOT saying, but are instead inferring. I have included: The lyrics to 8 songs are presented on the left Inference questions about the lyrics on the right. A suggested answer key A short teacher's note about what I say to my students Youtube links to

This product is analytical and comprehension questions for each of the "chapters" (as they are broken up by dates) in Walter Dean Myers' MONSTER. An answer key is included! If you need more activities for Monster you can check out: Monster by Walter Dean Myers Complete Novel Study Monster by Walter Dean Myers Chapter Questions W Answer Key Murder on a Sunday Morning Viewing Guide (Monster by Walter Dean Myers) Monster by Walter Dean Myers Vocabulary and Context Clues Monster by Walter Dean My

180+ slides of Daily Bellwork for the English classroom. It covers: Editing (commas, apostrophes, I vs. me, capital letters, Double negatives, quotation marks, and general proofreading practice) Writing Literary Elements Summarizing Figurative Language Context Clues Brain Teasers Conflict Symbolism Inference Basically you name it, this has it I use this every single day in my classroom. Each day I see what we are covering and then find a correlating slide! You could also use them as a quick "d

This is a 65 question test for MONSTER by Walter Dean Myers. It contains: ---Character Matching ---True -or- False ---Multiple Choice ---Answer Key Want a self grading digital version of this test??? Google Forms Final Monster Test If you need more activities for Monster you can check out: Monster by Walter Dean Myers Complete Novel Study Monster Mock Trial (Monster by Walter Dean Myers) Monster by Walter Dean Myers Chapter Questions W Answer Key Murder on a Sunday Morning Viewing Guide (Mon

My teacher friends always seem to dread one thing more than anything else....creating sub plans so they can take off. I created an entire folder of activities to choose from that I can pull from whenever I plan to be out so I never have to worry about a thing. This product includes everything you need to create sub plans for several years over if needed! This includes a LOT of activities to choose from if you ever need to be out! Also, at my school subs can choose not to sub for you if the

180+ slides of Daily Bell work for the English classroom. It covers: Editing (commas, apostrophes, I vs. me, capital letters, Double negatives, quotation marks, and general proofreading practice) Writing Literary Elements Summarizing Figurative Language Context Clues Brain Teasers Conflict Symbolism Inference 10 slide of poetry Basically you name it, this has it I use this every single day in my classroom. Each day I see what we are covering and then find a correlating slide! You could a

This product takes 5 minutes mysteries and asks students to solve the mysteries using graphic organizers. There are 5 mysteries, 5 organizers, and 5 answers. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.8 Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.

This product is a 63 question test for Night by Elie Wiesel It includes: Character Matching Place Events in the correct order True/False Multiple Choice 1 Short answer More Night by Elie Wisel Resources: Complete Night by Elie Wiesel Novel Study Picture Word Clouds for each chapter of Night by Elie Wiesel Boy in the Striped Pajamas Viewing Guide (compare to Night) Night by Elie Wiesel Chapter Vocabulary Quizzes Night by Elie Wiesel Final Test Night by Elie Wiesel Vocabulary and Context Clues

This product is my entire 8th grade English curriculum (Minus the novel studies, pre reading prezis, and novel activities), but it could work for 7-10 grades depending on your states standards. Please scroll to the bottom of the listing to learn more about downloading the product before purchase. Background about me: I have been teaching 7/8 grade English for 10 years. I have worked with standard, inclusion, and advanced classes. Awards: Two years ago I won teacher of the year for my div

I have been teaching writing for the past 8 years using a version of the Step-up-to-Writing program with great success. Step-up-to-Writing uses colors to teach the parts of a paragraph/essay. With this 45 slide prezi (and accompanying 6 page handout) students are introduced to the idea of using 3 different colors to help them keep track of the parts of a paragraph/essay as well as outline their essay. They will write their own paragraph, learn how to stretch that paragraph into an essay, an

In my classroom I give the students a random fact of the day every single day. Sometimes I write them on the chalkboard and sometimes I show them on my Promethean board through this PowerPoint presentation. My students LOVVVVVVE these. Generally they are just for fun, but sometimes I use them as extra credit on assignments/quizzes. This product has 180 days worth of random fact PowerPoint slides that kids will find interesting! Check out the free preview! :) You might also like: 180 qu

The concept behind this product is that every year it seems as if my students score lowest in the area of determining the meaning of unfamiliar words (context clues and word origins). In order to combat against this, I scavenged through 10 years of released tests and word lists every student should know to compile a list of 260 words. I then broke the words down by root word, prefix, and suffix to create "RPS Lists" I then took those words and plugged them into high interest non fiction art

Prezi is similar to a PowerPoint in that they are both presentation tools, but that is where their similarities end. Prezi Presentations are created on a "canvas" rather than on "slides". This helps to encourage focusing on combining text, pictures and video clips. Items on the canvas can be dragged, tilted, and zoomed to create an engaging look that really grabs students attention. Prezi Presentations are also FANTASTIC for hitting many learning styles at once (especially if you include video

This product contains 32 examples of 4 types of point of view that have been hopelessly jumbled. Students can either highlight each term a different color and highlight all the corresponding examples the same color -or- Students can cut out the squares and glue all the terms under the correct headings. Point of View covered: First Person 3rd Person Limited 3rd Person Omniscient Second Person Answer key is included! This is a PDF but if you want a DOC (after purchase) just send me an

This product asks students to make inferences using 10 popular T.V. commercials. The students are asked to view the commercials and then answer inference questions about each one. Product include: --43 slide prezi with the 10 commercials embedded within and questions for each commercial --Handout with questions for each commercial --Answer key for handout Check out my other inference products: Six Day Inference Unit Complete Inference Unit Making inferences with commercials prezi and handou