Go over how to read complex sentences. Learners work on identifying key ideas, examining sentence structure, looking up new vocabulary, and paraphrasing. An overview of methods to help class members read difficult texts, half of the...

Clear text, relevant images, and short facts about different types of government on each page will interest your students and keep them on task. After the 11 types of governance are summarized, there is a fun game; each of the 9 slides...

What is the difference between summary writing and literary analysis? A 16-slide presentation offers some basic requirements for both types of writing and helps readers identify each based on keywords used in both types of writing....

What do you need to cite, and how can you avoid plagiarizing? This presentation is aimed at beginning writers, and it details some of the ways people plagiarize (even accidentally) and what sort of information needs to be cited. The...

This literature study PowerPoint summarizes and reviews the key points of the book, The Telltale Heart. The slides display a mock raceway where students must answer questions about the text in order to complete the raceway. This is an...

Writing a summary is an excellent way for students to demonstrate their understanding of nonfiction text. This slideshow explains what makes a good summary and delves into the four basic rules for writing a summary of nonfiction text.