Five Minute Focus Slide Deck Series

By ONlit Last updated 2026/09/14

Description

These Five-Minute Focus slide decks were designed with busy staff meetings in mind. Each deck highlights an important literacy topic and follows a practical, easy-to-use structure:

What is it?
Why is it important?
Practical teaching tips for implementation
Connected resources to deepen learning and support instruction

Complete with speaker notes to support presentation delivery, these short slide decks are an effective way to build educator knowledge, strengthen instructional capacity, and spark meaningful professional learning conversations.

Topics:

What are embedded mnemonics?
What is Tier 2 Vocabulary?
What is the GIST?
What is the Instructional Hierarchy?
What is partner reading & paragraph shrinking?
What are multisyllabic words and how do you teach them?
What’s the difference between explicit instruction and discovery learning?
What is sentence combining?
What is dialogic reading?
What is Morphology?

Grade(s): K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Topic(s): Alphabetic KnowledgeApplying MorphologyApplying PhonicsComprehensionExplicit InstructionFluencyGrammarOral LanguagePhonemic AwarenessSyntax and Sentence StructureUnderstanding Reading DevelopmentVocabularyWord-Level Reading and SpellingWriting

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