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Do your students struggle with summarizing? Maybe they understand what it means to summarize, but are having trouble writing a summary on their own?This Summarizing SWBST PowerPoint is great to use as a guided lesson to introduce or review the skill of summarizing because it teaches students a specific step-by-step strategy to master the skill. Use this PowerPoint to both introduce and practice the Somebody Wanted But So Then Strategy. Copy the printables that accompany the lesson so studen

Do your students understand what main idea and details are, but can’t seem to determine them when reading independently? Are you looking for a new strategy to use when teaching students how to determine the main idea and details, especially when the main idea needs to be implied?This PowerPoint walks students through the strategy step-by-step with a practice passage. It offers students another way to determine main idea rather than just relying on reading the first sentence of the passage or

Are you looking for resources that can be used to teach reading comprehension strategies and skills for your 4th and 5th grade students? Are you tired of using resources that only focus on the reading skill itself, but don't teach a way for students to actually master it? Look no further! In this BUNDLE, you will find 20 resources to teach and practice different reading comprehension skills and strategies! Here's what's included: Main Idea and Details - What? So What? Strategy3 SETS of Main

Are you looking for resources that can be used for teaching SUMMARIZING for both fiction and nonfiction texts? Are you tired of using resources that only focus on the reading skill, but don't teach a way for students to actually master it? Look no further! These strategies can be used with any texts, but some are provided for you in the bundle! In this BUNDLE, you will find 8 resources to teach and practice 2 different reading strategies that will allow students to master the following skill

Do your students understand what character traits are, but can't seem to infer character traits based on the evidence from the text? This PowerPoint teaches students a step-by-step strategy, called "Think F.A.S.T." which focuses on character's feelings, actions, sayings, and thoughts, to understand their traits.It is great to use as a guided lesson to introduce or review the skill. Students will learn to think deeply about a character's feelings, actions, sayings, and thoughts in order to un

Are you relying on teaching your students to look at the first sentence of the text to determine the main idea and details? Are you ready to switch up your instruction for this critical reading comprehension skill? Teaching main idea and details doesn't have to be difficult! Try out the What? So What? Strategy which teaches students a fail-proof method for this skill. Try out this amazing BUNDLE of over 100 pages to teach students to think about main idea and details in a different way... Inc

Are you looking for ready-to-go, no prep lessons for those essential reading comprehension skills we ALL have to teach in upper elementary ELA? Check out this amazing BUNDLE of 3 PowerPoint Lessons that covers the following reading comprehension skills and strategies:Summarizing Fiction - SWBST StrategyCharacter Traits - Think F.A.S.T. StrategyMain Idea & Details - What? So What? StrategyYou can use these PowerPoint lessons to introduce the reading skills at the beginning of the year and als