Nonfiction Reading Skills Review
A Google Classroom-ready slide deck for reviewing six nonfiction reading comprehension skills.
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Teach reading with presentation slides for phonics, sight words, comprehension strategies, and literary discussion. Choose guided stories and poems or informational passages with questions for whole-class reading and review.
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A Google Classroom-ready slide deck for reviewing six nonfiction reading comprehension skills.
Teach middle-school students to use text structure while comparing/synthesizing information from different media (text and audio) on the same topic, using differentiated guided notes and a PowerPoint.
Give early readers repeated read/write/color practice on the first 100 Fry sight words, in an editable PowerPoint format.
A PowerPoint presentation intended to accompany reading-strategy instruction on story structure (beginning, middle, and end), cueing teachers when to do an interactive read aloud, partner talk, or independent reading.
A test-prep activity that has students read a fiction and a nonfiction text on the same topic and identify genre/text-structure differences, using a teacher-led PowerPoint plus a student-built mini-book, with an optional Google Drive digital version.
Digital slide deck (Google Slides/PowerPoint) of sight-word discrimination drills intended to accompany/bridge with the commercial Edmark Reading Program Level 1, for special education, pre-k, and kindergarten students.
A PowerPoint presentation intended to accompany reading-strategy instruction on sequencing, cueing teachers when to do an interactive read aloud, partner talk, or independent reading.
Digital lesson teaching the reading-comprehension skill of making inferences and idea development, for middle-school students, via differentiated interactive Google Slides notes ("Pixanotes").
Digital slide-deck geography lesson teaching West Virginia's state facts and symbols (capital, flag, seal, animals, nickname, motto) through informational slides, a reading passage, and interactive prompts.
A reading-instruction presentation (Day 22 of a 'First 21 Days' -- actually a later add-on day -- lesson series) introducing text structures, built around a graphic organizer/thinking map format.
Digital reading-response activity slides that let students choose any high-interest Newsela article and respond to it in writing.
Lesson 15 of a synthetic, systematic phonics programme teaching the initial/beginning sound of the letter O via a PowerPoint presentation and worksheets, including for pupils with special needs/dyslexia.
Practice and check recognition/spelling of Fry's Ninth 100 Sight Words (words 1-20 of this free sample) through fill-in-the-blank sentences, digital self-check slides, and flash-card style word drill.
Digital slide deck (Google Slides/PowerPoint) of sight-word discrimination drills intended to accompany/bridge with the commercial Edmark Reading Program Level 1, for special education, pre-k, and kindergarten students.
A digital, interactive micro-learning slide deck teaching the origins and traditions of the ancient Greek Olympic Games (776 BC, Olympia, events, prizes, the Olympic truce) through a reading passage, vocabulary, and comprehension/writing activities.
Teach the 'ck' digraph through phonics sound-letter drills, word-picture matching, word building, and a board game reinforcing ck words.
Digital slide deck (Google Slides/PowerPoint) of sight-word discrimination drills intended to accompany/bridge with the commercial Edmark Reading Program Level 1, for special education, pre-k, and kindergarten students.
A micro-learning slide deck teaching the figurative-language idiom 'pig out' through a reading passage with audio, comprehension activities, and a quick write.
Practice and check recognition/spelling of Fry's Fourth 100 Sight Words (words 1-20 of this free sample) through fill-in-the-blank sentences, digital self-check slides, and flash-card style word drill.
Teach early readers, including those with special needs or who need a slower pace, to decode short-vowel words ending in the consonant blend "nd" through a slide-by-slide phonics lesson.
A slide deck teaching the concept of puns/wordplay through examples (joke puns, food puns, punnies/comics) and a creative-writing assignment applying puns.
Practice and check recognition/spelling of Fry's Seventh 100 Sight Words (words 1-20 of this free sample) through fill-in-the-blank sentences, digital self-check slides, and flash-card style word drill.
A no-prep PowerPoint reading comprehension lesson built around the Senegalese folk story 'The Discontented Fish,' structured using New Bloom's Taxonomy levels and aligned to Common Core RL.6-8 standards.
Introduce, review, or assess six types of figurative language (simile, metaphor, personification, idiom, hyperbole, alliteration) through a self-checking, branching 'Mitten Hunt' digital game (PowerPoint-based, with an accompanying teacher guide referencing a Google Slides version).