HMH Into Reading | Grade 5 Engaging Slides – Natural Disasters

Make your HMH Into Reading lessons more engaging and interactive with this ready-to-use slide resource designed to help 5th grade students dig deeper into informational text!

These engaging slides pair with the texts “Eruption” and “Who Studies Natural Disasters?” and provide focused practice with key reading skills aligned to Texas TEKS.

Students will read closely, discuss their thinking, analyze text evidence, and practice responding to questions in a way that supports success with STAAR-style reading tasks.

📚 TEKS & Reading Skills Covered

This resource provides targeted practice with:

• Author’s Voice – Analyze the author's voice and how it contributes to the text.
• Figurative Language & Sensory Language – Identify sensory details and explore how authors use language to help readers visualize information.
• Text Structure: Sequencing – Recognize sequence and time-order structures and explain how events or ideas are organized.
• Short Constructed Response (SCR) – Practice writing clear responses supported by evidence from the text.
• Content-Area Words – Use context and text clues to determine the meaning of important science vocabulary.

🌋 Texts Included

Eruption
Students explore a volcanic eruption while practicing sensory language, author's voice, sequencing, and content-area vocabulary.

Who Studies Natural Disasters?
Students learn about the scientists and experts who study natural disasters while applying reading skills to informational text.

✨ What Makes These Slides Engaging?

These slides are designed to keep students actively thinking throughout the lesson. They are ideal for whole-group instruction, guided practice, partner discussion, or independent work.

Students have opportunities to:

• 🔎 Closely read and analyze text
• 💬 Discuss questions with classmates
• 📝 Cite evidence from the text
• 🧠 Apply reading strategies independently
• 🌎 Connect reading skills to science content
• ✍️ Practice STAAR-style constructed responses

👩🏫 Perfect For

• Whole-group reading instruction
• Small-group instruction
• Reading intervention
• Guided practice
• Test-prep review
• TEKS-based instruction
• Interactive classroom lessons
• Independent reading practice

Give your students an engaging way to practice essential 5th grade reading TEKS while building background knowledge about volcanoes and natural disasters!

Please Note: This resource is designed to supplement HMH Into Reading instruction. The original HMH texts are not included.