Make Distance Learning easier with ready-to-go PowerPoints and their Google Classroom companions!

Introducing concepts, strategies, and skills? I’ve got the basics covered! This mini-lesson will help give your students a firm foundation that you can build on.

Teaching live? Share screen with your students and teach through the slides.

Create a resource bank! Post the PowerPoint or assign in Google Classroom for students to reference as they complete weekly assignments!

Back in the classroom?

Introduce a new unit with a complete and engaging presentation to anchor their learning.

Revisit presentations as end-of-unit review!

What slides can you find in this minilesson?

You can also view the video preview to see all slides.

• What is theme?
• How do you find theme? (2 slides)
• Theme topic vs. statement
• Acceptance
• Confidence
• Cooperation
• Courage
• Equality
• Forgiveness
• Friendship
• Honesty
• Jealousy
• Kindness
• Overcoming
• Persistence
• Responsibility
• Taking a Stand
• Thankfulness
• Let's Practice (3 slides, 1 passage each, students find the theme)
• You Try! (students click 1 out of 3 read alouds to watch)
• Graphic Organizer (students fill in the theme organizer for the book they read)

Looking for more Mini Lessons?

Click below to check out even more resources!

Set 1:

• Theme
• Character Feelings & Traits
• Story Elements
• Folktales

Set 2:

• Main Idea
• Context Clues
• Nonfiction Text Features 1
• Author's Purpose

Set 3:

• QAR
• Genre
• Sequencing
• Making Inferences

Set 4:

• Poetry
• Making Predictions
• Fiction vs Nonfiction
• Compare and Contrast

*Not Yet Bundled* Nonfiction Text Features 2