Description
These theme and lesson activities give you everything you need to teach lesson, theme, central message, and author’s purpose, with digital and printable mini-lessons, anchor charts, reading passages, response sheets, and more.
Teaching Tools
- Identifying the Lesson chant and Author’s Purpose chant, each with a teaching video
- Lesson, theme, central message, and author’s purpose focus posters
- Digital anchor charts: The Lesson, Find the Theme, and Author’s Purpose
- Printable anchor charts and bookmarks
- Lesson, theme, central message, and author’s purpose printables
Interactive Digital Activities
- Author’s Purpose
- Newspaper Author’s Purpose
- Finish It and Learn From It!, with a teaching video
- Friendly Fables
- What’s the Lesson
- The Ugly Duckling theme activity
- Mice Twice activity and directed drawing
Practice and Assessment
- 12 leveled reading passages
- Exit tickets
- 6 reading response sheets
Digital Formats
- PowerPoint: files are in the zip folder
- Google Slides: links are throughout the PDF, so you just click and save
- Seesaw: links are throughout the PDF, so you just click and assign to your class
Differentiation
- Reading passages come in 3 levels, with 4 passages at each level
Good to Know
This is not a set of lesson plans. It is a set of activities to use whenever you focus on this skill, during a unit of study or all year as you read books in class. The activities are not book specific, and the video mini-lessons feature Katie and Amy teaching the skill.
Save with the bundle: this resource is also included in Reading Comprehension Toolkit Bundle.
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- Reading Activities for Nonfiction Text Features
- Reading Activities for Making Inferences
- Reading Activities for Comparing and Contrasting
- Reading Activities for Summary and Central Idea
- Reading Activities for Asking and Answering Questions
- Reading Activities for Setting and Illustrations
- Reading Activities for Character Traits and Analysis
- Reading Activities for Making Predictions and Synthesis
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