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Informational Reading Connections Slides for High School

Build lively high school reading lessons with informational reading connections slides in a pink-and-green illustrated style for PowerPoint and Google Slides.

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Cover slide for informational reading connections slides showing a bright illustrated high school literacy lesson in pink and green.

Lesson opener slide introducing three ways students can connect with an informational text.

Reading strategy slide showing a student-friendly definition of making connections while reading.

Modeling slide with a short nonfiction passage and highlighted evidence for a reading connection.

Text-to-self activity slide with prompts for linking nonfiction ideas to personal experience.

Text-to-text activity slide comparing two informational sources with space for shared ideas.

Text-to-world slide guiding students to connect informational reading with a broader issue or event.

Graphic organizer slide for sorting text details, prior knowledge, and resulting connections.

Evidence practice slide asking students to support a reading connection with a quoted detail.

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Make complex nonfiction reading more approachable with informational reading connections slides designed for high school classrooms. The cheerful pink-and-green illustrated style gives teachers a memorable visual framework for helping students connect a text to themselves, other texts, and the wider world.

Inside, you will find 15 editable 16:9 slides for introducing the strategy, modeling a passage, sorting connection types, recording evidence, comparing ideas, checking understanding, and leading discussion. Use the layouts as a complete lesson or select individual pages for bell ringers, guided reading, small-group work, or assessment review. Prompts, diagrams, question spaces, and quiz-style activities keep students involved while leaving room for your own examples and excerpts.

This high school reading lesson deck works in PowerPoint and Google Slides, with flexible text boxes, shapes, charts, and illustration areas that are easy to adapt. It suits English language arts teachers, literacy coaches, intervention groups, and substitute-ready lesson planning. Use the informational text comprehension activity slides to support annotation, close reading, and evidence-based responses, or adapt the reading strategy presentation for a unit on articles, essays, reports, and primary sources.

Perfect for: high school ELA mini-lesson; nonfiction reading workshop; small-group literacy intervention; close reading review; teacher professional development; substitute-ready reading lesson.

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Can I edit these slides in PowerPoint? Yes. The deck is designed for PowerPoint and includes editable text, shapes, colors, and layout elements. Replace the sample prompts with passages, questions, and vocabulary from your curriculum.

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Can I edit these slides in PowerPoint?

Yes. The deck is designed for PowerPoint and includes editable text, shapes, colors, and layout elements. Replace the sample prompts with passages, questions, and vocabulary from your curriculum.

Does the template work with Google Slides?

Yes, you can open and customize the presentation in Google Slides. Check the imported fonts and adjust any spacing if your account substitutes a different typeface.

What reading skills can this lesson support?

The slides support text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections, along with annotation, evidence gathering, inference, and discussion. They can be adapted for articles, essays, reports, and primary sources.

Can I change the pink and green color palette?

Yes. The colors, type, illustrations, and content areas can be customized to match your classroom or school style. Keep the original palette for a bright illustrated lesson or use your own accessible contrast choices.

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