Determining Theme Graphic Organizer Activity
- Grades
- Grades 3–5, Elementary
- Pages
- 4
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- ELA, Reading, Reading Comprehension, Strategies, Writing
- Topic
- Determining Theme, Graphic Organizer
- Resource types
- Graphic Organizers, Teacher Tools
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Standards
- RL.4.2
Product description
From the author
If you want to give your reading students extra practice with theme, I have just the resource for you!
What You Get:
This is a Determining Themes Graphic Organizer Worksheet that was designed for upper elementary students who have learning or are reviewing this skill. This resource is a 3-page printable.
The graphic organizers included will allow students to complete theme of story, theme of drama, or theme of poem.
How To Implement This Resource:
You will print off enough copies of these worksheets for all your students to have. Students will use this worksheet set to write details from a given text and summarize the theme. Depending on their grade level, you can select texts for students to complete this task or you can allow students to pick their own texts and stories. This is great for an independent activity or in small groups.
Students will love this activity and I hope you enjoy!
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Use story details to explain a theme.
Summarize a text using its key events and resolution.
Teaching tips
Model how the problem and solution can support a theme statement.
Choose a narrative poem when using the poem organizer so its story-element boxes have a clear purpose.
Use a main idea graphic organizer alongside the theme organizer to discuss the difference between what a text is about and the message it conveys.
Skills covered
Theme analysis — connect a text’s message to its characters and events.
Summarizing — record the important details before writing a concise account.
Text organization — sort information into the labeled story-element boxes.
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Which reading selections fit the organizers?
Use a story, drama or narrative poem chosen separately. Each organizer has a blank title line so it can accompany the text your class is reading.
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Standards
Standards
- RL.4.2
Core concepts
Core concepts
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Story elements
Summary
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