The depth and complexity of reading standards in upper elementary can be daunting. In the upper grades, teachers are tasked with reviewing foundational comprehension skills from earlier grades, extending what students have already learned, and introducing brand-new concepts that require thorough instruction to create new understanding. It’s a lot of material to cover, and most pre-packaged programs lack direct, systematic instruction on these concepts! That’s why I created a series of reading lessons and slides to help your students become confident readers and thinkers and to help you easily plan your lessons.
Want to try them FREE? Scroll all the way down for a free slide set!
Reading Slideshow Lessons Bundle
Your students will love learning about reading skills with these high-interest lesson slides and the accompanying slide guides. These ready-to-go lessons are the perfect way to streamline your lesson planning.
There is a wide variety of skills covered in this massive set of reading skill slides, including:
- Author’s Purpose
- Character Change
- Character Conflict
- Character Traits
- Context Clues
- Fact and Opinion
- Fluency
- Genre
- Inference
- Main Idea and Details
- Restating the Question
- Story Elements
- Theme
- Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting
- Key Details (Who, what, where, when, why)
- Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts
- Literal vs. Inferential Comprehension
- Text Structures
- Text Features
- Sequencing
- Compare and Contrast
- Cause and Effect
- Point of View
Reading Lessons and Slide Sets
These reading lessons have been carefully designed to make prep faster and cover everything you need for each skill! They will save you SO much time preparing lessons and practice activities and make it super simple for you to have high-quality lessons you enjoy teaching!
Each topic includes:
- A comprehensive lesson slideshow
- Slide Guides for students to engage with during the presentation
- A digital Google Slides version of both the lesson slides and the slide guide for paperless practice
- Answer Keys for the slide guides
Reading Lesson Slides
The slides require NO prep… just start the slideshow and teach as you go! Choose between a PowerPoint, Google Slides, or PDF presentation to fit your classroom needs.
Each reading lesson slideshow includes super engaging, collaborative step-by-step lessons that include:
- definitions
- quick partner discussions and activities
- passages and samples
- independent practice
- …and more!
Slide Guides for Teaching Reading Skills
As you’re teaching with the reading lesson slides, students will interact with the lesson by writing definitions, reactions, thoughts, and notes on their slide guide. This helps keep students engaged and accountable while providing valuable opportunities to practice each skill!
Optional Reading Assessments
After each reading lesson, you can add reading skills assessments as the perfect companion to the teacher slides.
Reading Skills Assessments
These assessments are the perfect companion to our Reading Lessons! Each assessment/printable has two pages. Use them as pre- or post-assessments, study guides, homework, intervention, or alternative assessments.
Each assessment/printable has two pages to use as pre- or post-assessments, study guides, homework, intervention, or alternative assessments.
- Page 1 – Students recall information about the reading skill and read, annotate, and reflect on a fictional passage.
- Page 2 – Students will read, analyze, and reflect on an informational passage and evaluate or create a product using the skill.
More Ways to Use the Reading Lessons
The reading slides are perfect for tier I/whole group to introduce each skill throughout the year, but that’s not the only way you can use them.
The reading lesson slides are perfect for test prep and review, too! Select the skills that cause your students the most trouble (like Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting or Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts) to review again just before testing.
The reading slides are also perfect for tier II instruction and interventions. You can work through the slides and slide guides together in small groups for more support. Melissa D. said, “ I used this for tier II instruction. If I had found it earlier, I would most definitely use it to teach Tier I on this standard. These slides helped scaffold my students to be able to understand character change. Thank you.”
Free Key Details Reading Lessons Download
Are you ready to try these reading lessons in your classroom– for free? This FREE download includes a sample of the full Key Details teaching slides and student slide guide!
Mary Montero
I’m so glad you are here. I’m a current gifted and talented teacher in a small town in Colorado, and I’ve been in education since 2009. My passion (other than my family and cookies) is for making teachers’ lives easier and classrooms more engaging.
