Reading Traces - Edition for Bavaria is the modern teaching material for Protestant religious education in elementary schools. Reading Traces enables students to discover the religious dimension in everyday life. The chapters connect to the children's experiences and consistently provide prompts for further thinking, storytelling, and creative engagement. It supports competency-oriented teaching as outlined in the LehrplanPLUS. Content-related and process-related competencies are promoted in various ways, offering open and holistic learning opportunities. Action-oriented learning, musical aspects, movement, and artistic engagement are significant for religious development and are therefore emphasized.