Use PowerPoint presentations to introduce new grammar concepts to a class. On the first slide, write the rule for grammar. On the next slide, provide a full example of the rule and then an incomplete example. Ask students for the answer. Utilize zoom or flash functions to present the answer to the class in an entertaining way. Dress up the slides with graphics since grammar tends to be one of the duller subjects for students.
To practice reading, have students recite small passages from the PowerPoint slides. Add images and graphics to give younger students clues for difficult words. Divide up the slides to correlate with different parts of the story (e.g., rising action, falling action, climax). Upload pictures from the story to include on the slides so that the students can visualize the scene where the rising action and other plot elements take place within the context of the tale.
After you grade an assignment, upload a selection from one of the top papers onto a PowerPoint slide. Be sure to ask for the student's permission first. All the students will be able to see the selection. Ask them what makes this piece proper, poignant and well-written. Another idea is to write a few sentences on the PowerPoint slide and ask the students what should come next. After they offer answers, have the correct answer zoom, slide or fly into view.
Require the students to create a PowerPoint presentation about a component of language arts. Assign each of them a specific area of grammar, such as parts of speech or proper comma usage, to create slides about. Another option is to ask them to create a PowerPoint about the themes of, characterization in or motifs/symbols found in a recent novel or poem they have read. Require them to use a certain number of slides, graphics, movements and so forth.