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Main Idea and Details Anchor Chart and Interactive Reading PowerPoint for Classroom Use

March 31, 2014 by Wise Guys Leave a Comment


Here is our fifth installment of using effective anchor charts and interactive Power Points for teaching reading skills to your students. Enjoy! 

Main Idea Anchor Chart

Below is an example of a main idea and details anchor chart. We thought a table was a good analogy for this topic. The supporting details are the foundation for the surface which is the main idea. Without the supporting details there wouldn’t be a main idea. Our students were able to grasp this concept.


The focus the PowerPoint is for students to understand what the main idea is and how supporting details relate back to the main idea. We created a summary game where students have to read a passage and determine what the main idea of the passage is. It is highly interactive and engaging for students. We have them record their answers in their reading notebooks and then share the correct answers. It is a great discussion tool for your class.

Our Power Points are all interactive, which means that your students are actively involved in the learning process! No more boring books that students don’t connect too!

Learning can be fun, so go ahead and try out our interactive PowerPoint to teach this important reading skill! Reading can take you anywhere! Click here to find it now!

Filed Under: anchor chart, common core, reading Tagged With: 4, 5, grades 3, main idea, supporting details

Point of View Anchor Chart and Resource

March 23, 2014 by Wise Guys 3 Comments


Here is our third installment of using effective anchor charts and interactive PowerPoints for teaching reading skills to your students. Enjoy! Below is our point of view anchor chart.

Point of View Anchor Chart

We love to make anchor charts that are colorful and engaging for students. As you can see below we tried to make this a fun one! It features first person, second person, and third person point of view. Students can easily see the difference between the three. It is important to talk about all three as students will encounter these in their reading.


The focus of the PowerPoint is for students to identify the three different points of view text can have: first person, second person, and third person. We make our slide shows engaging and ready to use right away in your classroom. We also use strategies like think-pair-share to engage students. They need to share their thoughts and ideas with another classmate.

Our PowerPoints are all interactive, which means that your students are actively involved in the learning process! No more boring books that students don’t connect too!

Learning can be fun, so go ahead and try out our interactive PowerPoint to teach this important reading skill! Reading can take you anywhere! Click here to find it now!

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Filed Under: anchor chart, common core, informational text, reading Tagged With: 4, 5, grades 3, point of view

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