ENGAGING READING COMPREHENSION LESSONS FOR EVERY DAY OF THE MONTH! Featuring celebrities, inventors, sports, scientific discoveries, dramatic events and more… this series is sure to give you an unending supply of relevant and intriguing daily reading lessons. Each high-Interest passage is followed by a full page of skill-specific comprehension activities designed to sharpen essential reading skills. This lesson-a-day series is sure to become a classroom favorite! Ideal for bell work, enrichment, remediation and review.

This set of Google Slides is a chapter slice from April Daily Comprehension 21st Century.

INCLUDES STANDARDS-BASED READING & WRITING ACTIVITIES:

Stories are followed by skill-specific comprehension activities. Questions are clearly labeled with the standard/skill that it meets.

• LOCATE AN ANSWER
• DRAW CONCLUSIONS
• CAUSE & EFFECT
• FACT OR OPINION
• FIND FACTS
• MAKE INFERENCES
• SEQUENCE EVENTS
• FIND THE MAIN IDEA
• COMPARE & CONTRAST
• USE CONTEXT CLUES TO FIND MEANING

All captivating events happened in the last 20 years!

This is a growing series that will eventually include the entire school year.

MORE DETAILS:

This 21st Century Daily Comprehension resource is an all-new version of our popular Daily Comprehension series. A high-interest, nonfiction story has been chosen for each day of the month. The stories are a combination of historical, scientific, record-breaking, sports, and pop culture events that happened on that particular day. All of the stories are about events that occurred during the 21st Century. Care was taken to choose topics that appeal to a wide-range of interests. Students will learn some serious and some fun facts while improving their reading skills. A page of skill-based questions follows each story. Comprehension skills include: facts, locating the answer, cause and effect, fact or opinion, sequence, main idea, conclusion, inference, context, and comparison.

Easy-to-Use Google Classroom Lessons:

Simply download these Google Slides and assign them to your students. Assign them all, or just a few for today's lesson! Watch student progress in real time or review later. For additional flexibility, these slides can also be printed for in-class use or downloaded as a PowerPoint presentation!

Benefits of Google Slides:

If you've been looking for a way to integrate technology into your lessons, this is your answer. And the best part is you don't have to print, cut, laminate, or replace when you lose pieces....it's ALL DIGITAL!

How do Google Slides Work?

Students read each high-interest story on a computer or iPad then answer the comprehension questions right on their copy of the slides. Teachers can see students' answers in real time, or review them later. Slides can also be printed and used as colorful classroom worksheets. You can assign a set of slides to each student, so that they have their own personal packet.