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This editable Google Slide deck uses high-interest dystopian excerpts to show students how to annotate meaningfully. Featuring excerpts from 1984, The Handmaid's Tale, The Grace Year, and Unwind, each section focuses on a specific literary device so students can build skills in a manageable way.

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Each excerpt is paired with a targeted annotation focus, and the slides walk students through a scaffolded annotation process.

Make student-led discussions more engaging, inclusive, and low-stakes with these Book Talk Bingo editable and printable sheets, perfect for any novel, short story, play, or nonfiction unit. This resource includes 5 unique bingo-style sheets featuring scaffolded sentence stems and questions that encourage deeper thinking, peer-to-peer dialogue, and active text engagement.

Each board is filled with a mix of prompts ranging from analytical to personal connection-based, with several designed specifically to support reluctant speakers and struggling readers.

Using clips from WALL-E (you will need Disney Plus or another account to access this film) and animated shorts (YouTube links provided), students learn how to distinguish theme from main idea, practice “reading between the lines,” and connect conflict and character growth to larger life lessons.

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With built-in examples, guiding questions, sentence frames, and discussion prompts, this resource is designed to take an entire class period (45–60 minutes) so you can focus on teaching and facilitating conversation without extra prep.​