POWER Prep

Need a short story that can be read in one period? Looking for an appropriate story to share with your kids for Halloween? Look no further...... A favorite for my 6th graders, this lesson is perfect for Halloween. While you read the scary story "Family Dinner," play scary music to set the mood. The story is sure to engage students. There are questions that follow, that most students will be eager to do after reading the story. This is probably one of my favorite lessons to do with my kids.

Scary Halloween lesson for "The Jigsaw Puzzle" by J.B. Stamper. There is a do now, guided notes, guided practice, a demonstration of learning, stop and jot questions (to lead to theme), pre-reading, and then independent practice with the story where students find the theme and two pieces of evidence to support their theme. The lesson is a little long (~60 minutes), but a lot can be cut out. The longest part will be reading the story. I am planning on doing this lesson on Friday with my kids

Text: Death By Scrabble Multiple choice questions for making inferences (8.10F19D)Demonstration of Learning with 6 questions for the text aligned with guided practice questionsComes with a DO NOW & Guided practice (any video with a PLOT can be used)Bonus activity included after DOLGreat for test prepAligned to Texas standardsSTAAR question alignedKEY Included for multiple-choice questions at the end of document

The best way to teach students how to break down a prompt! This was easily one of the best writing lessons for my students. My sped/lep students loved this because it broke everything down enough for them to understand.

Powerpoint with animations, an answers to guided notes. This powerpoint goes perfectly with the Poetry Theme worksheet (you can find it in my files!). This powerpoint with the worksheet (available for purchase!!) will save you so much time and energy. Get both now, and have a full lesson (or 2!)

powerpoint to go with poetic structure freebie worksheet!

Using the Brown V. Board article, teach students how to respond to articles using sentence stems (perfect for LEP and SPED students, as well as struggling readers). This lesson offers scaffolding for struggling students, but can easily be adapted to increase rigor. The worksheet also utilizes AVID strategies (3-2-1 Nonfiction) Request the ppt in the comments section!

Teach persuasive techniques with this interactive powerpoint! each video is used to teach the persuasive technique Use it with the worksheet "persuasive techniques" bandwagon emotional appeal testimonial faulty reasoning repetition

Hello, here is the companion powerpoint for the worksheet listed under the same name. Since the powerpoint itself is very basic, I will be selling it for only $0.50. Includes : DO NOW videostimersinstructionsexample LO/DOL to use

Two articles on crime scene investigations and blood spatter analysis with multiple choice questions for each. Texas 6-8 STAAR aligned questions for 8.10D (making connections among ideas)independent practiceexpositoryguided practice6 multiple-choice question demonstration of learning

Two articles on "Why do we fart?" with multiple choice questions for each. Texas 6-8 STAAR aligned questions for 8.10C (organization of ideas and structure) independent practiceexpositoryguided practicemultiple choice questionsPowerschool/unified classroom generic scantron included on worksheet (can be deleted if your school does not use this program)

Two articles on "Why do we cry?" with multiple choice questions for each. Texas 6-8 STAAR aligned questions for 8.10A (main idea and supporting details) independent practiceexpositoryguided practicemultiple choice questions

Companion PowerPoint for "Sleep Paralysis" worksheet on summarizing. I would change the video for the DO NOW, if your school is more strict on language. Any video should work for the same do now. instructionsvideostimersthink-pair-shareshelps walk-through how to teach the worksheet

ppt that goes with the worksheet "turning a thesis into two strong topic sentences" Animations take students step by step through the writing process of writing a thesis and then turning that thesis in to two strong topic sentences. ***used with the Michael Dunn case.

PowerPoint to go with Death by Scrabble worksheet. Includes: videostimersinstructionsexemplar LO/DOL